Understanding Data Deduplication

“Data deduplication is inarguably one of the most new important technologies in storage for the past decade” says Gartner. So let’s take a detailed look at what it actually means. Definition Data deduplication or Single Instancing essentially refers to the elimination of redundant data. In the deduplication process, duplicate data is deleted, …

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