I talk to customers all the time about the value that NetApp brings to the table. It's not even hard because there's so much to tell and so many wins to describe, especially in the solution areas that I focus closely on. For starters, we've made some great strides in VTL with our deduplication offering. As expected, we remove duplicate data so that common points of data are stored only one (1) time. Our dedupe takes place for all of the data associated with a virtual library and works by scanning (terabytes of data) for repeating data, making references to it that point to the common set of data, and then removing and reclaiming the capacity used by the duplicate data. It rocks.
NetApp VTL Deduplication delivers 95% (20:1) savings
ü Fingerprinting inline, byte compare and deduplication post-process for now
ü Leverages hardware compression for additional savings and speed
ü Configured on virtual library basis for flexibility
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