De-duplication described as a "band-aid" solution.
De-duplication, one of the most hyped storage technologies of the past two years, is a "band-aid" solution for organisations with lax IT policies, according to one of Australia's leading enterprise IT analysts.
IBRS analyst Dr Kevin McIsaac said that while there are some use cases for de-duplication - which aims to identify multiple redundant copies of the same file in a given storage system, deleting copies and leaving a pointer to one single copy to save the organisation disk space - it is not the panacea portrayed by some storage vendors.
In many cases, the analyst said, organisations would be better off improving their data management processes to avoid duplication of the data in the first place.
McIsaac told iTnews that the technology assumes that organisations have multiple redundant copies of the same data on their network.
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Source: itnews.com.au
By: Brett Winterford
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