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

With their purchase of Data Domain, EMC has more disparate deduplication solutions than anyone. If EMC takes full advantage of the Data Domain technology and integrates it into everything they do, they could get to a single point of deduplication. Even Avamar could play. Use the Avamar technology to solve the problem that Data Domain had; optimizing before it crosses the network, yet leveraging their technology on the back end. 

NetApp and Ocarina could continue to enhance and improve the re-hydration speed of their technologies to make read performance a non-issue, making primary storage a viable platform. Ocarina can already maintain the deduplicated format as they move through tiers, so landing on backup or archive disk would simply be another move for them. 

The ability to get to a single point of deduplication clearly exists and there are several companies that are well on their way to getting there and several more that can get there. The next questions are do you need a single point of deduplication and can these systems scale both from a capacity standpoint and a metadata management standpoint to meet the increasing demands that will be placed on these systems?