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 ...

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 ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

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 ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Correctly sizing a disk backup ...

Virtual servers, with all the efficiency and easy implementation they offer, turned out to be too much of a good thing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The university turned to data ...

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 ...

I have a modest sized (seems to me) deduplication problem. Last week I went through all the files in my Pictures folder in an attempt to deduplicate them. That resulted in a reduction of the number of ...