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Do We Need Consolidated Deduplication?: Page 3 of 4

 

Primary storage will be the next big battleground for optimization for one simple reason: the payoff here is the greatest. If you deliver a technology that can store more data in less space on the most expensive tier of storage, people are going to pay attention to you. As we indicate in our Primary Storage Optimization screencast, there are many differing ways to get there: compression, deduplication and archiving, to name a few. Compression may be more important than deduplication in primary storage. You can compress everything, you can only deduplicate redundant data. 

At that point we will have two or three tiers of storage being deduplicated by potentially three different technologies. Movement between the tiers is going to be a challenge because as I stated earlier it may require a rehydration of the data if the technology used differs. It seems that for vendors the next tier over is relatively easy to incorporate. Primary storage deduplication companies can develop a movement engine to move data to the next tier and backup deduplication companies can move up to the archive tier.