Deduplication has moved from a risky hard to explain technology to one that is almost expected by customers from a disk backup device. Next generation backup deduplication systems are going to require ...

In our last entry we opened a discussion of what is needed as we move into the next era of backup deduplication and focused on integration to backup software. Another area that is becoming ...

Symantec last week updated its NetBackup software platform by adding de-duplication technology. In the midst of the bidding war between EMC and NetApp to acquire one of the remaining deduplication ...

Altaro®, a leader in virtual machine data protection, today announced the general availability launch of VM Backup™ version 7, the fastest, most reliable, easiest to manage, and most affordable backup ...

The company also unveiled an enhanced version of its virtual tape library software that now supports 10-Gbit Ethernet iSCSI and 8-Gbit Fibre Channel storage. Deduplication, also called "dedupe," ...

Full-file incremental forever, block-level incremental forever or source depulication? The best way to choose is to perform backup and recovery tests and evaluate the performance of each method. A ...