Single Instance Storage

Computer Weekly: Deduplication and single instance storage cut primary data storage costs

Absolutely; there are two areas where data deduplication, or single-instance storage, can help. Deduplication is fairly common today in backups using a variety of appliances or software. Since this is ...

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At several companies, data de-duplication, or single-instance storage, technology has demonstrated that it can cut long-term costs and improve disaster recovery. Yet only about 30% of companies ...

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I'm curious if the core iOS apps such as Messages and Photos use any sort of single instance storage or deduplication or other methods to save on storage space. Quick example: I take a picture on my ...

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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 ...

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Virtualization Review: Adding Instance Storage to an AWS EC2 Virtual Machine Instance

Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

When Marty Garrison became chief technology officer of ChoicePoint Inc. three years ago, the storage situation was messy. That’s no small matter at a company that manages 16 billion records, such as ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

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