Data deduplication, also called intelligent compression or single-instance storage, is a means of reducing the amount of data that needs to be stored. The data deduplication process works by ...

Lessfs offers a flexible solution to utilize data deduplication on affordable commodity hardware. In recent years, the storage industry has been busy providing some of the most advanced features to ...

As storage costs continue to increase, it is becoming increasingly important to perform backups in a way that minimizes storage costs, but without sacrificing the protection of your data in the ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

Deduplication is arguably the biggest advancement in backup technology in the last two decades. It is single-handedly responsible for enabling the shift from tape to disk for the bulk of backup data, ...

The realities of exponential data growth are hitting hard in organizations of all size. Small-to-medium sized businesses are particularly vulnerable to this expensive and ubiquitous challenge, however ...

Battling armies of cloned files that bog down enterprise storage operations, new data-deduplication techniques rid systems of extraneous versions of the same information – a powerful promise that is ...

Data storage needs continue to grow unabated, straining backup and disaster recovery systems while requiring more online spindles, using more power, and generating more heat. No one expects a respite ...

Deduplication has become a ‘checkbox’ technology for purchasers, so every vendor of data storage products has incorporated something they can call “deduplication”. While data reduction effectiveness ...

Data deduplication is commonplace nowadays in backup and is a common feature of backup software products and disk-based backup devices. But data deduplication – or more commonly single instance ...