Data deduplication is a topic being asked about by our customers, and being discussed in the media, more and more. Would you like to know Dell’s take on it?
In the video below, Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of Dell’s storage business, discusses Dell’s view on the future of this technology and what we are doing to help deliver solutions to meet your data management needs. (If you’d like to download the slides in this video, they are available on Dell’s Slideshare account here.)
We are announcing enhancements to our deduplication portfolio, both in services to help you understand holistically how you might benefit from deduplication, as well as in products that help address your storage challenges. That’s what the conversation should be about — how you can best solve your problems related to data growth, protection and access.
Dell views deduplication as a feature of storage, one that may help you optimize your investments in data management. However, it’s not the only one to accomplish this goal. Our view is that deduplication it is not, by itself, a solution.
Deduplication can be implemented in different ways, whether through dedicated appliances or through integration into existing areas, such as in backup software.
Dell’s view is that an integrated approach — a feature of your software — provides the greatest benefits to you. In this way, deduplication becomes ubiquitous across many aspects of the data path, from applications through operating systems and backup, where it is focused today. We are helping to drive this evolution.
Before you can decide which approach to take to optimize your storage, though, you need to understand your unique needs and environment. Dell deduplication services can help. Our services teams can assess your needs, provide recommendations and implement solutions, whatever they may be – instead of just figuring out how to make a single approach work.
For more information on deduplication, I’d encourage you to take a look at www.dell.com/deduplication.
And if you have a more technical focus or appetite, I invite you to join us next week at Dell TechCenter for a live chat on this topic.