Q: Can you explain the differences between compression, file deduplication and data deduplication? A: All of these products fit into an overall market and technical concept, which is capacity ...

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 ...

Logan G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. Deduplication removes redundant data from storage — originally, duplicate files, but more ...

Logan G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. Deduplication removes redundant data from storage — originally, duplicate files, but more ...

Data is flooding the enterprise. Storage administrators are struggling to handle a spiraling volume of documents, audio, video and images, along with an alarming proliferation of large email ...

Network Appliance on Monday introduced deduplication for all types of file data rather than just backup data. In what might be the first such offering in the industry, Network Appliance’s A-SIS ...

I have a modest sized (seems to me) deduplication problem. Last week I went through all the files in my Pictures folder in an attempt to deduplicate them. That resulted in a reduction of the number of ...

Data deduplication — the process of detecting and removing duplicate data from a storage medium or file system — is one of those simple ideas that gets complex in the implementation. Duplicate data ...