One of the more useful features of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is native data deduplication. Although deduplication features have existed in storage hardware for years, the release ...

Deduplication is a feature introduced in Windows Server 2012 that can be enabled without the use of expensive hardware capabilities such as SAN or NAS. It helps to reduce your storage need by ...

All those copies of data increase hardware, power, and IT costs. Data deduplication is the answer, and Windows shops may already have the core technology in place “Storage is cheap!” you might say.

I've been working a lot on Hyper-V recently, and I've been happy to find that there are plenty of good community resources on Hyper-V that can help people get started with it. One feature I've spent a ...

A Windows 2008R2 server was attached to a Compellent Storage Center S30 SAN with two volumes, both created from snapshots of a production server volume several months apart. Netbackup 7.0 was ...

Data deduplication is commonplace nowadays in backup and is a common feature of backup software products and disk-based backup devices. But data deduplication – or more commonly single instance ...

Data deduplication, also called intelligent compression or single-instance storage, is a means of reducing the amount of data that needs to be stored. The data deduplication process works by ...