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On rare occasions, IT evolves quickly to meet rapidly changing user requirements, sending new approaches skyrocketing up the adoption curve. In the storage arena, data deduplication was the breakaway technology of the past year. And it's poised over the next 18 months to move into a critical ro...

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Published in:CIO Insight 2008-02 (90), p.53
Main Author: Dunn, Darrell
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Back up systems
Chief information officers
Data integrity
Disaster recovery
Information technology
Network storage
Software
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Summary:On rare occasions, IT evolves quickly to meet rapidly changing user requirements, sending new approaches skyrocketing up the adoption curve. In the storage arena, data deduplication was the breakaway technology of the past year. And it's poised over the next 18 months to move into a critical role helping businesses gain control over growing mountains of data they must store and protect for regulatory and corporate purposes. For some businesses with quickly escalating storage demands, data deduplication is the only viable alternative to costlier hardware investments such as conventional tape libraries. The increasing availability of deduplication from multiple vendors has made the technology a no brainer to many IT executives previously faced with more complex and expensive alternatives. The bottom line attributes of deduplication have earned the technology early converts, and a growing track record of helping businesses gain control over their storage requirements and improve data integrity will mean expanded options in the coming year.
ISSN:1535-0096