Data Deduplication Tools Overview
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Data Deduplication Products
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Workforce mobility and the rise of cloud services is an essential part of any business, but it creates a number of challenges for
IT. Data spread across devices and cloud services, unpredictable schedules, and varied network connections all complicate
efforts to protect and govern enterprise informa…
As businesses are adopting a “cloud-first” strategy, data protection is one of the first IT
functions to migrate to the cloud. However, it can lead to a number of challenges. With a
thoughtful cloud strategy, businesses can achieve the best results. According to the vendor, with Druva PhoenixTM,
bus…
Barracuda Backup is a data recovery, restoration, and deduplication product from Barracuda Networks. It features data center backup support for email protection, network & application security, and general data protection.
Dell EMC Avamar is a hardware and software data backup and deduplication product. It provides protection and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution when paired with Dell EMC Data Domain for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise apps, NAS servers, and desktops/laptops.
PowerProtect DD (a next-generation appliance replacing Dell EMC Data Domain) is a suite of hardware appliances used for
data protection, backup, storage and deduplication. PowerProtect appliance offerings are
cloud-enabled and vary by organization size, capable of supporting small
business and ente…
HPE StoreOnce is a backup and recovery hardware solution from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, providing disk-based backup, deduplication, and long-term storage. StoreOnce offerings can support virtual and cloud environments for small business, mid-size organizations, and enterprises.
RingLead DMS Duplicate Prevention (Unique Entry) enforces perimeter protection around B2B databases to stop dirty data in real time, at the source, and consistently maintain and improve the health of data.
Nexsan, from Imation, offers data deduplication in their storage solutions.
Falconstor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is the eponymous data center backup and recovery solution from the company headquartered in Melville, New York.
Since the 2014 acquisition, technologies formerly offered by Sepaton (with DeltaStor data deduplication software) are now part of the Hitachi Protection Platform.
Nexsan DeDupe SG is a disk based backup and data deduplication option, from Imation company Nexsan.
In early 2015 Microsoft added data deduplication capability to their System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager.
Clear Analytics is a business intelligence solution that enables non technical end users to perform analytics by leveraging existing knowledge of Excel coupled with a built in query builder. Some key features include: Dynamic Data Refresh, Data Share and In-Excel Collaboration.
StarDQ is a real time solution for cleansing, de-duping, and enriching enterprise data.
By integrating StarDQ Solution, organizations can cleanse, match and unify data
across multiple data sources and data domains. According to the vendor, the goal is to ensure that data is a strategic,
trustworthy,…
Data Deduplication Tools Overview
What are Data Deduplication Tools?
Data deduplication tools are important for backup and restore operations where large quantities of data are backed up at regular intervals. Frequent backup always means copying and storing large data sets for recovery purposes. As much of this data is duplicate data, storing it all repeatedly would quickly lead to unmanageably large data storage requirements. It is essential to deduplicate these data streams to optimize data backup storage. Deduplication is achieved by means of a deduplication algorithm which is capable of examining an incoming data stream, and comparing data segments to data that has been stored previously. However, there are several things to consider when looking for a product as not all deduplication products work in the same way:
- Source versus target deduplication: Software running on a server which is the source of data is deduped before it is transmitted to the storage device. The advantages of this approach are that a smaller quantity of data is transmitted to the target storage solution and this method therefore uses less bandwidth for data transmission Source deduplication can increase processing time, which is often an important consideration in virtualized environments where there is a very large quantity of data duplication. The alternative is target deduplication where the data is all transmitted to a storage NAS device or tape library, and is deduped once it has been sent. This method reduces the storage capacity required for backup data, but does not reduce the amount of data sent across a LAN or WAN during backup.
- Inline deduplication versus post-processing deduplication: Inline processing means that the deduplication process happens in real time as the data is being transmitted to storage. In post-processing deduplication, the backup data is all written to a disk cache before it starts the deduplication process.
- Global deduplication: Global deduplication is an important consideration as most deduplication processes are designed to remove duplicated data from a single storage device. Global deduplication is removing redundant data across the entire data storage infrastructure. Global deduplication allows administrators to efficiently manage the entire backup data storage environment.