Data Reduction and Data Deduplication

The explosive data growth that all organizations are experiencing can disrupt critical data protection processes and consume huge amounts of storage at the backup destination. Target-side deduplication technology reduces your disk storage footprint, but does nothing to alleviate the source-side problems that data growth creates.

As data center resource consolidation gains traction, many organizations are missing the big picture.  For reducing primary storage footprints, they are looking at virtualization solutions in isolation; and for reducing secondary backup storage, they are focusing on deduplication solutions in isolation. To consolidate optimally, they must consider the full landscape.

If data protection were inherently efficient, today’s rigorous demand for data reduction on the secondary side, and the backup contention menace that unbalances so many virtualization experiences on the primary side, could both be reined in – while at the same time enhancing backup and recovery performance, reducing hardware purchases,improving protection, easing administrative strain, and successfully positioning you for future growth. Read our white paper Virtualization, Deduplication, and the Data Protection Connection—Reinventing IT Infrastructure Consolidation with Efficient Data Protection to understand how efficient data protection delivers data center efficiencies.