Video: Forget Virtual Sprawl, Here Comes Dedupe Sprawl

Businesses will feel the pain of the deduplication "threshold" where dedicated hardware appliances and virtual tape libraries (VTLs) will fill up, requiring additional purchases of expensive hardware or forklift upgrades. The impetus for dedupe will evolve as deduplication for backup hits this wall. Users will realize that dedupe for backup isn't solving the bigger problem of continually backing up mountains of primary storage-based static information, as it just addresses a lesser symptom of the need to reduce the amount of space redundant backups consume.