While almost two-thirds (62 per cent) of businesses have cottoned onto the benefits of data de-duplication to reduce storage requirements, costs and boost efficiency, some organizations either oblivious to the merits.
So says research by Storage Expo ahead of the event of the same name at London's Olympia next week. While more than a quarter (27 per cent) of those surveyed plan to jump on the de-duplication bandwagon in the next year or so, some four per cent say it's not for them.
"Data de-duplication is a relatively new method of reducing storage needs and boosting efficiency by eliminating the inherent data redundancies that exist in many traditional storage and data protection processes, such as backup," said Natalie Booth, the conference's event manager.
"Heralded as one of the most exciting technologies in the storage market de-duplication has left organizations very excited about its possibilities."
Simon Robinson, research director at The 451Group, added: "Data de-duplication has emerged as one of the most talked about technologies in storage, and IT departments are actually embracing it, suggesting that de-duplication can provide real value and return on investment to businesses that deploy it."
Robinson will chair a seminar at Storage Expo entitled Reducing your data footprint' which will discuss whether the technology lives up to its hype.
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