Backup Appliance Deduplication Efficiencies and Capacity Planning Demystified

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Peter Marelas explains and quantifies the differences between deduplication appliance architectures to assist the backup community in making objective comparisons with the solutions available.

First, Peter establishes how deduplication works in the context of backups. From there, he dives into the different implementations and properties of deduplication systems and how they impact the backup environment.

Further on in the article, Peter discusses how the unique properties of backup data and requirements affect the ability to forecast and predict deduplication storage consumption. His article concludes by discussing sizing capacity for deduplication systems and offers ideas to improve capacity planning and forecasting of deduplication systems.

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