NetApp releases breakthrough Deduplication Technology

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NetApp first major storage provider to offer customers the ability to ‘Store More with Less’ across backup, archival, compliance, and primary data.

Network Appliance, Inc. has sbroken the industry's traditional deduplication legacy with the availability of NetApp advanced single-instance storage (A-SIS) deduplication for NetApp NearStore and FAS storage systems to help customers achieve the cost benefits of deduplication across a wide variety of environments, including backup, archival, compliance storage, and primary data sets as diverse as home directories and genomic data.

The introduction of NetApp A-SIS deduplication provides customers with the ability to reduce capital expenditures and management costs by dramatically reducing the amount of storage they need to purchase and manage. The reduction in quantity of physical storage translates into savings in power and cooling costs and data center real estate costs.

Deduplication is just one of the many features customers require from storage vendors, including reliability, scalability, and the ability to easily manage their environments

. With today’s news, customers must consider the cost and efficiency benefits of deduplication as being applicable across all environments and that it should be an integral part of backup, archival, compliance, and general primary storage solutions.

"Deduplication, at its core, is another form of data virtualization, in which one physical copy represents many logical copies," said Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, Tony Asaro. "Deduplication creates a domino effect of efficiency, reducing capital, administrative, and facility costs. We believe that data deduplication is one of the most important and valuable technologies in storage."

NetApp A-SIS deduplication technology has been in customer use for approximately two years, exclusively in conjunction with Symantec NetBackup. Today, the same technology is available as an integral part of NetApp storage systems and can be deployed with a wide range of data types. A-SIS deduplication can be enabled on NetApp