Deduplication too hot to touch
Deduplication too hot to touch
May 29, 2007: The latest results from the TheInfoPro’s hot technology index has seen data deduplication fire up the charts to replace file virtualisation as the hottest storage technology around.
Based on 152 respondents from Fortune 100 companies, data deduplication hit the number one spot as the storage technology generating the most interest from some of the largest enterprises.
TheInfoPro’s managing director of the storage sector Robert Stevenson, says he has never seen a technology hit the top spot so quickly.
More than 50 percent of the Fortune 1000 organisations named depuplication as the top technology in consideration for 2007 and into 2008. A technology drive which TheInfoPro says, derives from the move by organisations to redesign their backup efforts.
In a separate study by TheInfoPro, 20 percent of Fortune 1000 storage professionals listed backup redesign as a top storage initiative. A major factor driving this priority is the finding that backup activities is the second biggest time consumer of storage professionals.
“The modern Fortune 1000 storage organisation is at a crossroad. They have to innovate to increase backup productivity or they will risk service expectations,” said Stevenson.
“Deduplication technology is one of the top technologies under consideration to address this gap as it assists with alleviating top pain points by allowing organisations to better leverage current disk space and reduce tape backup consumption, thereby creating savings on future storage expenditures.”
Six months ago, file virtualisation took the leading spot. While it’s still gaining steady momentum in the number three spot, like data deduplication the technology also rapidly fired up the chart.