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Initially, our customer had a huge challenge backing up his virtual environment. He had to treat his VMs as physical machines. Due to the long backup window of “backup to tape,” the customer was only able to a get a full backup on the weekend. As we all know, backup to tape is the cheapest; …

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.

Companies and organizations are often faced with challenges regarding their backup windows, making them concerned about their overall reliability. EMC Avamar is a powerful backup and recovery system that can provide your organization with the reliability of daily full backups in a fraction of the time required by a traditional tape and disk based backup solution.

EMC wins the Data Domain battle.  http://www.cnbc.com/id/31829763/site/14081545No real surprise to me, but an exciting thing for sure.  What I find interesting in CNBC’s article is the continued speculation that NTAP may chase down CommVault, FalconStor, or Sepaton.  Even more interesting is the notion that NTAP might put themselves up for sale.  Of course, as an …