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Dell Point of View:

• Data deduplication is getting significant attention from a growing number of customers looking to manage ever-increasing storage growth by eliminating redundant data. Dell believes data deduplication is just one – not the only – option to help customers meet this challenge.

• Dell is taking a customer-specific approach in which Dell consultants will guide customers in determining how any or all of the following optimization considerations can help them manage their storage as efficiently as possible:

o Thin provisioning
o Reclaimed storage
o Storage virtualization
o Automated load balancing
o Data tiering and classification
o Deduplication

• Dell’s deduplication strategy is to foster and encourage the rapid evolution of dedupe technology into a storage environment where the functionality exists everywhere. As deduplication matures quickly, it will move beyond backup storage – where it primarily resides today — to other data types including near-primary, archive, file and object storage solutions.

• Dell believes that incorporating deduplication functionality into ISV, application and storage software can provide significant benefits to customers including:

o More affordable, better performing solutions than purpose-built appliances.
o Simplified management through single console interfaces for data protection and management.
o Reduced network traffic across WAN and LAN infrastructures leading to improved, more cost effective disaster recovery environments.

I was on the Dell comunity blog the other day looking at what’s new, and noticed this article about data de-duplication, something that I think is getting more discussion in the enterprise whether it’s to manage our storage requirements, or be more efficient with the storage we have. Anything Dell or the other vendors can do to help with this has to be a good thing, we do need to look at the data we have, how we provision and manage it, simple steps can transform your storage requirements, user profiles for example, do they need backed up or do they need backed up and replicated?

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