Among the greatest challenges to the data storage community is how to effectively store information without selecting the exact same data and storing over and over again in different locations on the same servers, hard drives, magnetic tape libraries and so forth. There have been numerous efforts to handle these redundancie a few more successful [...]
Deduplication (occasionally called Single-Instance Storage, Capacity Optimization or Factoring) represents a data diminution technology designed to do away with redundant (duplicate) data on a storage system by saving just one instance of each piece of data for the purpose of reducing disk space and network bandwidth.There are various types of deduplication technologies: File deduplication [...]
I remember when a server used to be as big as a room, and a computer wasn’t a small portable object. Nowadays computer technology is more modern, however, these improvements happened in just a few years. Now, you wouldn’t think of keeping any of this old technology in your business office setting, would you? Of course not! On the [...]
