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Purpose-built
deduplication
and compression
appliances offer an
affordable, powerful
and easy-to-use
solution that can
scale to handle
growing data sets —
without rip-and-
replace.
Appliance-based deduplication
Purpose-built backup appliances, on
the other hand, absorb all rehydration
workloads from D2D2T environment
components, which make them much
easier to size for.
Conclusion
Data sets and regulations are both
growing rapidly, but IT staff size is not.
Therefore, today's IT solutions must be
simple to deploy and use, and must
be able to scale to meet aggressive
data growth. Deduplication and
compression are first-rate technologies
to manage growing data sets that
require longer and longer retentions.
When choosing deduplication
technology, organization cannot afford
to ignore the impact to their broader
backup environments. Software-
based deduplication solutions claim
to be more cost-effective than their
appliance-based counterparts, but
these alleged savings disappear when
you factor in the hidden costs of
adding media servers with powerful
CPUs and lots of memory, upgrading
to expensive SSDs, hiring storage
management expertise, and risking
downtime and data loss. Moreover,
purpose-built deduplication appliances
deliver superior deduplication
technology while reducing the
complexity of backup administration
and management.
Purpose-built deduplication and
compression appliances offer an
affordable, powerful and easy-
to-use solution that can scale to
handle growing data sets. They are
designed to complement existing
backup environments regardless
of what backup software is being
used, enabling compression and
deduplication savings without rip-and-
replace demands.
Dell offers the DR Series of purpose-
built disk based deduplication and
compression appliances that have
a proven track record of satisfying
customer backup needs. We invite you
to learn more at software.dell.com/
solutions/deduplication-appliances.
