Data de-duplication can significantly reduce the amount of data that is replicated over the WAN. This can have significant implications from a cost, bandwidth and disaster recovery (DR) perspective, and is driving adoption of de-duplication at remote sites. ESG research shows that users are warming up to the concept, with 31% of respondents to a recent survey saying they have already implemented de-duplication technologies at both remote sites and within their corporate data enter. Clearly, one of the hidden jewlels of data de-duplication is the replication effect.

Lauren Whitehouse Analyst Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)

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