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Embedded Global Deduplication: The Cure for Redundant Data
Data, in and of itself, is not a problem. It only becomes a problem when its growth outpaces the limits of manual data management. As data continues to grow at rates of 30-50 percent for many IT shops, the real issue is that existing platforms, processes and people are breaking down.
The need for data deduplication is often an indicator that your backup foundation isn’t working the way it should. Ask yourself if your data deduplication approach is a temporary fix or a lasting solution? Is it based on a long-term strategic vision or a shortsighted tactical approach that can lock you into an expensive, point-solution and a restrictive storage roadmap?
Trying to reduce data volume by tacking on a dedupe appliance to the end of the storage management chain may reduce the pain today, but it won’t prevent painful choices and decisions tomorrow.
Reduce Data Across Backups, Archives, Clients, and Platforms
Long-term data reduction requires a deduplication approach that is not an afterthought, but an integrated part of a holistic data management solution. Which is why Simpana® 8 software has global, block-level dedupe built right into the processes in which data is moved, managed, protected, replicated and archived.
Simpana 8 applies data reduction techniques from backup and archive data creation all the way to the endpoint (across all tiers of secondary storage, including disk and tape). This minimizes primary frontend storage growth, reduces movement over the network, and lightens the backend load. It functions as part of an overall, holistic data management process with common policies, indexes, management capabilities, encryption, and reporting tools built right in.
The Results
Less redundant data to deduplicate, and deduplication capabilities that no point-level hardware or software product can match, including:
- Reduces up to 90% of backup and archive data stored on disk and tape.
- Globally reduces the amount of data stored across backups, archives, clients and platforms in both remote and centralized configurations.
- Built-in scalability with the ability to add Media Agents running on commodity hardware to handle inbound data streams. Matching capabilities on the backend to modularly grow storage capacity as needed.
- Deduplicated data doesn’t have to be “rehydrated” when migrating to long-term archival on tape, commodity disk, or upon retrieval back from long-term storage.
- Deduplication is content-aware for better alignment with native items in your backup stream.
If you’re thinking you need deduplication, think ahead with global, block-level dedupe in Simpana 8.