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IDC Executive Guide: Assess the Value of Deduplication for your Storage Consolidation Initiatives
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Enterprises today are faced with a two-sided challenge: to store and manage increasing amounts of data and to simultaneously reduce system footprint — and in a way that enables enterprises to meet recovery requirements. Deduplication is a technique that can dramatically improve storage system performance, minimize capacity requirements, and speed up data recovery. This white paper helps you assess current needs and usage and determine where deduplication can positively affect your IT consolidation initiatives, help reduce costs, and create a more "green" environment.

Assess the Value of Deduplication

Even with consolidation through server virtualization and the use of shared SAN storage, however, enterprises still need effective data protection and rapid recovery in the case of a data-loss event. The implication of consolidation and virtualization for storage means that the role of data protection must change. Storage, backup, and recovery are strategic considerations in the design of consolidation and virtualization projects and cannot be an afterthought or a post-process. As organizations consolidate IT, they have looked to data replication as a way to ensure data protection and recovery. Data replication software includes software designed to create image copies of volumes or files via techniques such as clones, mirrors, and snapshots.

Replication may be storage system, server, fabric, or appliance based and may occur locally or between remote sites, potentially separated by long distances. Replication software is often used in conjunction with backup software to improve data protection performance.

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