Data Dedupe: So much with so little!
Shrinking budget and dwindling resources have only added to the misery of CIOs who are today under tremendous pressure to do more with less.

However, with the digital world over the metro expanding like never before, they are left with no choice but to incorporate more storage in their data centres, to meet the ever-growing demand for storage. As per IDC's report, 'Economy Contracts, the Digital Universe Expands', 480 billion gigabyte of data has been created so far and this would increase by five times by 2012.

Venkatesh Iyer, head - India & SAARC, Backup, Recovery and Archival Solutions, EMC, says: "We know that for every terabyte of information that we have, about 10-15 times of the information is lapped-up by organizations. On an average, people store in the back-up, and thus storage space is growing tremendously at around six per cent year-on-year."

What causes this huge data growth?
Every moment that we spend on Internet, networking over social network sites or sending e-mails or SMSs via mobile phone, we are becoming the source of this increasing information lot.

'Data Explosion in India - Trends & Challenges', a survey by The Nielsen Company in association with NetApp, finds that the financial impact owing to high usage of IT is tremendous on organizations. 

Enters Data Deduplication
Data deduplication or simply put data dedupe is one of the hottest topics in the network storage space today.

Data deduplication is not duplicating data, as the word implies, but is a method of reducing storage needs by eliminating redundant data.