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Can We Get to a Single Point of Deduplication?: Page 2 of 4

Primary storage deduplication has been handled by NetApp or EMC on their respective NAS gateways. The best use case for deduplication on primary storage is virtualized server images and to a lesser extent, user home directories.

Archive deduplication has been handled by companies like Permabit and Nexsan as well as to some extent NetApp on NearStore. There are also companies like Ocarina Networks that cross the bridge between primary and archive by both deduplicating and moving data from primary to secondary storage. Data Domain over a year ago opened their appliances up to be used as a secondary storage point.

Backup of course was and is dominated by Data Domain but also companies like Quantum, Sepaton and Exagrid all have solutions in the space.