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Can We Get to a Single Point of Deduplication?: Page 3 of 4

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...
George Crump
July 29, 2009

The current deduplication vendors could work on building out their solutions to either scale up into primary storage performance (see Data Domain's DD880) or they could move their existing data duplication technology into other markets; see the increased speed of Ocarina Networks and Permabit as well as their move into cloud storage. 

We also have the approach of CommVault, Atempo, Acronis and EMC's Avamar; backup software with built-in data deduplication. As the deduplication capability is extended to the other modules that they offer, like archive, they can begin to claim a single point of deduplication. The challenge is of course that all the data to be deduplicated must go through that engine. Clearly the backup software solutions have or can integrate archive but I don't know how they can move into primary storage optimization or if they would want to.

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