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Author: Alexandre Delcayre, technical director EMEA, FalconStor.
The complexity and prevalence of IT systems continues to cause storage volumes to grow exponentially; regulatory regimes are also having a significant impact as businesses are bound to store and protect data for longer. Although compression technology can deliver an average 2:1 data volume reduction, this is only a fraction of what is required to deal with the data deluge most companies now face.
Only data de-duplication technology can meet the requirements companies have for far greater reductions in data volumes and, accordingly, data de-duplication is fast becoming a required technology for any company wanting to optimise the cost-effectiveness and performance of its data storage environment.
In this article we examine the eight key criteria to use when evaluating data de-duplication solutions:
• Focus on the largest problem
• Integration with current environment
• VTL capability
• Impact of de-duplication on backup performance
• Scalability
• Distributed topology support
• Real-time repository protection
• Efficiency and effectiveness.
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•Date: 3rd August 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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