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Do We Need Consolidated Deduplication?: Page 4 of 4

In my last entry, "Can We Get to a Single Point of Deduplication?", I looked at who had the capabilities for a single point of deduplication, essentially consolidating the deduplication engine so that only one supplier and one dedupe engine...
George Crump
July 31, 2009

To complete the loop so to speak -- primary, archive and backup -- is yet to be done and as deduplication becomes a more broadly used technology it ideally will be available from a single platform as opposed to a silo for each. In reality I would not hold my breath, we have been promised a lot of consolidation of different storage technologies throughout the years and not much has really been consolidated.

The bottom line is yes, we need a single point of deduplication but it is unlikely that we will get there, be prepared to manage separate silos of deduplication. 

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