Symantec last week updated its NetBackup software platform by adding de-duplication technology. In the midst of the bidding war between EMC and NetApp to acquire one of the remaining deduplication ...

Battling armies of cloned files that bog down enterprise storage operations, new data-deduplication techniques rid systems of extraneous versions of the same information – a powerful promise that is ...

Now that EMC has purchased deduplication technology leader Data Domain, its reseller agreements with the likes of FalconStor Software Inc. and Quantum Corp. for the same type of deduplication ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...