Over the past couple of years the terms Backup and DeDuplication have become synonomous.  The vast majority of organizations today, regardless of size, have either implemented DeDuplication within their environment, are considering implementing it, or at a minimum wondering if they would benefit from DeDuplication.  This is in large part due to the fact that the industry as a whole has been force feeding the need for DeDuplication in an effort to grab a piece of the pie.  Heck, the term DeDupe itself has all but become a household name.  …

Most IT departments understand the value of data deduplication but we’ll recap them here:
Less Disk – Data de-duplication reduces disk utilization by 90 percent or more.
Less Cost – With less disk, logically you spend less on disk but the savings extends to reduced power, space, and cooling requirements… and backup administrators spend less time managing backups
Faster backup, faster recovery, less media failures – For backups and virtualized environments, deduplication reaps huge, obvious benefits as backups and VMDK files are typically copies of data already. Since writing and reading from disk …