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Posted by George Crump on July 29, 2009
With the EMC-Data Domain acquisition seemingly moving along, a new point of debate is going to arise; can we get to a single point of deduplication? Meaning can you have all your data tiers; primary, archive and backup deduplicated by a single engine?
The argument makes sense, especially in deduplication. After all the more data you put through the deduplication process, theoretically, the greater your deduplication rate is going to be. The fewer interfaces and processes you have to deal with for optimization the easier your management of the process is going to be. The challenge is that right now for the most part we have seen a more silo approach to deduplication.
Comment by Mike Young on July 29, 2009 9:50 PM
Trying to drive a standard isn't very realistic with such a hot technology. If you have your own primary, backup and archival storage, then it's very doable. We're just a startup, but that was the impetus for us. Throw in CDP and then you've got a fairly value-rich end-to-end solution for SMBs.
Mike Young
CEO, Cachengo
http://cachengo.com
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