Lessfs offers a flexible solution to utilize data deduplication on affordable commodity hardware. In recent years, the storage industry has been busy providing some of the most advanced features to ...

In part one of this series, I covered the basic concepts of data duplication. Before getting to the next installment, I wanted to take a second and apologize to the readers for the long delay between ...

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 ...

Absolutely; there are two areas where data deduplication, or single-instance storage, can help. Deduplication is fairly common today in backups using a variety of appliances or software. Since this is ...

Logan G. Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist with experience reviewing a wide range of IT products. Deduplication removes redundant data from storage — originally, duplicate files, but more ...

One of the more useful features of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is native data deduplication. Although deduplication features have existed in storage hardware for years, the release ...

www.symantec.com – The challenges of information growth are well documented today. In fact, we are at a point where information costs are automatically factored into in all areas of a typical IT ...

The compactor handles critical post-ingestion and pre-query workloads in the background on a separate server, enabling low latency for data ingestion and high performance for queries. The demand for ...

Data deduplication is commonplace nowadays in backup and is a common feature of backup software products and disk-based backup devices. But data deduplication – or more commonly single instance ...