As storage costs continue to increase, it is becoming increasingly important to perform backups in a way that minimizes storage costs, but without sacrificing the protection of your data in the ...

With the move, Dell becomes the second major storage vendor, after EMC, to adopt Quantum technology for its product line. EMC unveiled a dedupe relationship with Quantum in May. The decision by Dell ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Correctly sizing a disk backup ...

Solution providers said that deduplication, which is a way to eliminate redundant files and/or blocks of data, is a must-offer technology because it's now widely available, and customers are finally ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Every IT decision maker either ...

The data organizations must store is growing at an astounding rate and is likely to reach to 163 zettabytes globally by 2025. Enterprises are searching for technological solutions to help cope. One ...

Big Data is making life increasingly complicated for lawyers. In ediscovery, a big part of the challenge is simply eliminating duplicate copies of stuff – emails, Word documents, spreadsheets, files, ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

There's just too much stuff out there, and it's filling storage devices as fast as they can be upgraded -- 50 percent data growth a year, I'm told, is par for the course. We 're talking about standard ...

Big-data startup UltiHash GmbH is looking to disrupt the artificial intelligence storage market with the launch of a “unified storage layer” that combines a new and more sophisticated deduplication ...

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 ...