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 ...

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 ...

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 Corp. today announced NetBackup 7 for enterprises and Backup Exec 2010 for mid-sized firms, both of which offer data deduplication and archiving technology. Symantec said the new versions of ...

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 ...