In the past 2 months, I've been in the R&D and had the chance to do my own evaluation on some of the major players in the data deduplication industry -- EMC's Avamar, EMC's new acquisition DataDomain and Symantec's NetBackup PureDisk. These products have been in the market for sometime and have proven their strengths in data deduplication in their very own rights.
Our major problem is the short backup window and the ever increasing data that needs to be backed up. To shorten our backup time we tried several solutions -- from deploying more Netbackup Media servers, to using 1GB backup network, to dumping data to SATA disks then scraping them later to tape. With the maturity of deduplication technology and the competitive price that each product has to offer, I start to look into this side of data management.
.... to be continued
JonQBX
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