Deduplication is one of the hottest technologies in the current market because of its ability to reduce costs. But it comes in many flavours and organizations need to understand each one of them if they are to choose the one that is best for them. Deduplication can be applied to data in primary storage, backup storage, cloud storage or data in flight for replication, such as LAN and WAN transfers. So eventually it offers the below benefits;

This concept is a familiar one which we see daily, a URL is a type of pointer; when someone shares a video on YouTube, they send the URL for the video instead of the video itself. There’s only one copy of the video, but it’s available to everyone. Deduplication uses this concept in a more sophisticated, automated way.

Data deduplication is a technique to reduce storage needs by eliminating redundant or duplicate data…