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Deduplication, at least from a backup standpoint, is about efficiently storing data on a backup device. Some suppliers leverage either block-based incremental, continuous data protection (CDP) or source-side deduplication to increase the efficiency of data going across the network to the backup target. Cofio's AIMstor application takes the unique approach of using all of the available techniques for maximum optimization across the network and on secondary storage devices.
George Crump
June 15, 2010

The software provides real-time restore consistency for any application, and will also soon release added support for Exchange, MS-SQL and Oracle. Interestingly, AIMstor file versioning will be extended to include e-mail archiving this fall. Within the foundation of the software are robust data management and retention policies to help with that task.

Cofio categorizes the AIMstor product as a unified data protection application. Functions that are typically done separately like snapshots, CDP, backup, archive, e-mail archive and information security are unified not only under one interface but also into one data mover and one deduplicated storage repository. This provides the capability to not only deduplicate backup data but all the non-primary storage copies of data into a single repository. Further, since data moves only once for several different functions, network data transfers are then reduced by an order of magnitude equal to the number of functions used "X" capacity of data per function.

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