Data deduplication technology tutorial: A guide to data deduping and backup

In this data deduplication technology tutorial, learn about what to look for in a data dedupe product, inline vs. post-processing dedupe, and global deduplication in backup.

By Dave Raffo, Senior News Director

Data deduplication is now a common feature across all disk backup products, with practically every major enterprise data storage vendor offering at least one data deduplication product.

But a wide choice of data deduplication options require more homework and more decisions on your part -- do you want target-based data dedupe or source-based data dedupe? What's the difference between inline and post-processing deduplication? Should you go with a virtual tape library (VTL) or network-attached storage (NAS)? And will your backup load require global deduplication?

In this data deduplication technology tutorial, we look at all of those alternatives and take a look at some of the most significant deduplication backup products. Learn about global data deduplication, what to look for in a data deduplication product, inline vs. post-processing deduplication, and more.

Editor's Tip

Start with the first part of our data dedupe tutorial, and learn about the importance of global data deduplication.

This was last published in March 2010

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