This paper outlines the impact of data deduplication on data protection, and specifically how EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems pioneered, and now leads the market with the combination of storage system interfaces and software to make the disk-based solution an efficient and cost-effective alternative to tape-based methods.

Market research referenced in this paper shows how the rapid adoption of data deduplication has dramatically affected operating efficiencies, simplified remote office data protection, and made disaster recovery significantly more affordable and realistic. Customers now realize they do not have to keep buying more and more storage capacity as there are more efficient ways to store and manage information - especially in secondary storage environments.