BANGALORE, INDIA: HP released its new deduplication software, StoreOnce, which as per the company can be deployed at multiple points in a converged infrastructure.

Built on patented innovation and features designed by HP Labs, StoreOnce deduplication software minimizes hardware requirements.

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HP StoreOnce allows the same software to be used on back-up customers, virtual appliances, inline appliances and scale-out storage systems.

HP claims that HP StoreOnce software gives twice the price/performance over competitive offerings through its 'smart data and index layout' feature which reduces disk fragmentation and increases input/output (I/O) efficiency.

It provides support for iSCSI, fibre channel, network attached storage or offline storage interfaces enabling deployment of HP D2D solutions into existing back-up processes.