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Understanding Deduplication Ratios

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jasonwalker
Puritan
2 months ago

Loving the look of those amazing looking deduplication ratios vendors are touting? Look closer, my friend, and see the truth about those ratios.

It’s super important to understand where deduplication ratios, in relation to backup applications and data storage, come from.  Deduplication prevents the same data from being stored again, lowerin...
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Ludes
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31 days ago

Great explanation (filled with maths) and a topic that I feel we've been addressing with prospects and customers since I started 8 years ago.  Appreciate the insights and implications relative to retention, data types and backups.  Way to go Florida Man.