Deduplication: A Quick Fix Or The Way Forward For Storage?

David Asher, Director of Product Management, Iron Mountain Digital

Abstract: Deduplication has quickly risen to the top of IT agendas as a method to help reduce storage and power costs through streamlining the amount of information needing to be backed up. It also helps to address issues such as business continuity, e-discovery and compliance requests. However, deduplication really only tackles the initial symptoms of the data mountain and will not be able to match the growing average size of files as video and media files become increasingly used. Compression is already implemented within these file formats, which will mean a reduction rate at transmission stage. Effectively storage could get worse, rather than better.

Data reduction is the next generation of deduplication. It takes deduplication one step further, moving it from a reactive to a proactive approach to data management. This article explains how automated, policy-driven mechanism for data management reduces the need to worry about where and when data is backed up.

Article: Having engulfed the IT team, the data avalanche is set to hit the wider business. Organizations now have to impose restrictions on email inboxes and local storage facilities because of the amount of data being produced by users across the network.