Deduplication: A profitable Storage Management Solution

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Enterprises are witnessing extensive growth in data and content storage thus making it imperative for businesses to find an effective storage management solution.

Enterprises are witnessing extensive growth in data and content storage thus making it imperative for businesses to find an effective storage management solution. Vendors have been working on various options to cater to this need. Deduplication is one of such solutions that according to vendors cater to multiple important needs of enterprises including saving storage costs, removing redundancy and optimizing network bandwidth. Deduplication is similar to compression of data to minimize the redundancy.

Deduplication has struggled as a standalone solution but now acceptance as a data center solution is picking up. Symantec, one of the leading security management companies has entered into the data and information management space including storage software, back-up, Deduplication as solution offerings for customers.

Shrinking storage is a major problem being faced by many enterprises. For storage hungry businesses, data Deduplication can be a good applic

ation as it shrinks storage requirement to a great extent along with optimization in network bandwidth, said Vijay Mhaskar, Vice President, Information Management Group, Symantec India.

Deduplication has really picked up in todays time so selling this solution is profitable for vendors.

Today lot of data moves to client to back up server. So, Deduplication can be done on source machine or client machine or on backup server. It depends on clients need and budget. Say SMB can choose on source, which could be cost effective for them. We offer the answers to the challenges like Virtualization, backing up individual machines. With our solution with single past back up can restore any individual machine. Also our solutions are acknowledged by VMware, commented Mr. Mhaskar.

Even it is making a profitable proposition for the channel partners to sell these solutions. Ashish Khushu, COO, Apara, one of the top mid- sized system integrator