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Since its release last week, there has been a lot of buzz around the Avamar 6.0. I am going to take the liberty of reading between the lines and exploring some of the good (but gory) details. The biggest news in this release is the DDBoost/Data Domain integration into the new Avamar Client binaries. This …

OK, dedupe is cool. It makes disk a viable target for longer term retention. Dedupe however is not the panacea of backup. I have been getting a lot of questions about deduplication from my customers and it is a fun topic to discuss, but being a professional pessimist, let’s not lose sight of the fundamentals.

Now that EMC owns both Data Domain and Avamar, I am constantly being asked which technology is better. Before the Data Domain acquisition, it was tough to get a straight answer because the two deduplication giants were constantly slugging it out and slandering each other to try and find an edge and gain more market share. With the two technologies now living under the same umbrella, sometimes it is hard to tell where one technology ends and the other begins.

Wow, EMC just spent a lot of money for a feature!