Single Instance Strategies to Storage

Single Instance Storage (duplicate elimination) has become a very popular topic in the industry because of the potentially large reduction in cost and increase in efficiency it offers. Various technologies are being promoted for different tasks including backup, archiving, and transactional storage. Each of these storage uses represents a unique set of challenges and the single instancing technology being implemented has major implications for scale, performance, and functionality. Single Instance Storage also has long term legal and compliance implications for records management. This session will review various technologies available including object level de-duplication, fixed block de-duplication, and variable length block de-duplication and the implications of each for backup, archive, and transactional storage.

Learning Objectives

Various Single Instance Storage strategies including object level de-duplication, fixed block de-duplication, and variable block de-duplication.
Where these technologies are being implemented today in backup, archive, and transactional storage.
Identifying risks and benefits for employing Single Instance Storage today