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 ...

HP this week unveiled a two-pronged data deduplication strategy with its introduction of both a family of in-line and post-processing dedupe appliances. Meanwhile, Data Domain, Santa Clara, Calif., ...

Deduplication is arguably the biggest advancement in backup technology in the last two decades. It is single-handedly responsible for enabling the shift from tape to disk for the bulk of backup data, ...