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Source-Side Deduplication: Page 2 of 2

In our next series of entries, we will begin to look at companies that do source-side deduplication. Actually, we already looked at one: Atempo. Source-side dedupe means that the redundant data is eliminated prior to it traveling across the network to the backup server. If you draw this technique up on the whiteboard, it seems like this would be the most logical place to eliminate redundant data, but it is not without its challenges and we will try to address those as we go through them.
George Crump
March 18, 2010

The challenge with both BLI and source-side deduplication is that you are changing backup applications to make this happen. In some cases, this is a wholesale change out: new company, new software, new application agents, new everything. In other cases, this is an add-on to your current backup application and you are changing the data delivery technique.

Does source-side elimination of data make sense for your environment? You really have to bring this into your environment yourselves to make that decision. What the next phase in this series will give you is an idea of who is out there and what they do.

(Note to suppliers, if we have not spoken with you or don't currently have a briefing set up with you, please contact us so we can arrange a briefing.)

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