Is deduplication easy to implement?
This is vendor dependent. Data Domain has made it very easy by creating a fast, application-independent storage system (attachable as a file server over Ethernet or a VTL over Fibre Channel). No client software or other configuration is required. As a result, Data Domain deduplication is invisible to backup and recovery and other nearline storage processes. It works easily with various data movers and workloads, including non-backup data like e-mail archives, reference data and engineering revision libraries. More flexibility means more consolidation is possible using less physical infrastructure.
