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Intelligent compression for Intelligent Storage

Data deduplication is synonym with “intelligent compression” or “ single-instance storage”. In essence, it is a simple data compression process that eliminates all redundant copies of data and stores a single dataset.  Copies of data blocks are replaced with pointers to the unique copy.

The main data deduplication process consist of storing each unique data sequence only once. By discarding duplicate data elements, the deduplication engine sends only the changed data bits to the storage array. This way, the amount of transmitted data is significantly reduced and the speed of data backups increased.

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    How Deduplication Works

    Block-level deduplication breaks the file into blocks with same fixed size. Each block is processed using hash algorithms; once the block is analyzed, its signature is compared against the deduplication table. Only if the block’s signature is not found in the table, the data is backed up and stored on the disk.

    Solution

    The deduplication is the solution to data growth and data integrity; the finite amount of storage the organizations usually have access to limits the backup options and the reliability of the performed backup.

    Deduplication provides the best combination to address the challenges related to data storage and data integrity, enabling you to keep storage costs low and systems securely backed up.

    Advantages

    With data deduplication you will:
    • Save cost on storage: the data is stored only once even if it’s been subsequently updated and changed.
    • Improve backup replication speed by copying only the original data with its pointers.
    • Optimize storage requirements ensuring an efficient use of the infrastructure.
    • Keep the system securely backed up with data classification and storage automation
    • The deduplication is the solution to data growth and data integrity; the finite amount of storage the organizations usually have access to limits the backup options and the reliability of the performed backup.
    • Deduplication provides the best combination to address the challenges related to data storage and data integrity, enabling you to keep storage costs low and systems securely backed up.

    Dedupe&Compression

    Although the two techniques serve the same purpose, they work differently. While deduplication seeks out redundant data, compression reduces the number of bits that represents the data. Both techniques are data reducing techniques designed to optimize the storage capacity. Taken together, these techniques bring new benefits to deduplication:
    • Reduced data print
    • Lower bandwidth consumption
    • Longer retention time
    • Reduced tape backups
    • Faster recovery time

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