Flash Research Paper #2 Nishith Jani MIS 2501

Flash Research Paper #2
MIS 2501
Nishith Jani
9/18/13
Deduplication will reduce the data footprint created by storage and backups,
drastically reducing costs of storage equipment and media. Our current storage
infrastructure is costly and inefficient. Deduplication cuts operational costs by alleviating
the challenges of data growth. CBR Software applications website has reported storage
needs being reduced 25:1.
Deduplication is essentially a form of compression that eliminates redundant data
on a file level. Instead of multiple copies of data, only one copy of the data is stored, and
redundant data is eliminated, leaving only a pointer to the previous copy of data. This
technology reduces the amount of physical storage needed, and has a major impact on file
backup. Since we backup files daily, most of the data stays the same, and this creates
high levels of redundancy. Deduplication reduces size of data needed 7-25 times. This
simplifies the surrounding infrastructure such as JBODs, cooling, power, etc. In addition,
the high costs or servers will be mitigated by the improved capacity of existing
equipment. According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle, this technology is on the upward slope,
is soon to be main stream in 2 to 5 years, and is considered transformational.
The amount of waste created by our current back-up process and storage
infrastructure has a negative impact on our bottom line. The New York Mets, used data
deduplication software, and saved $200,000 on storage media. As our data grows,
purchasing new servers and relying on data consuming backups is not cost-efficient.
Deduplication technology cuts costs by reducing the size of data almost 25 times.
Figure 1: Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies
Figure 2: Priority Matrix for Storage Technologies, 2013
References
Dell (2004). Retrieved from http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/delldeduplication
Technet (2013) http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2013/07/31/extending-datadeduplication-to-new-workloads-in-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx
Rinnen, Pushan. (2013). Gartner.com. Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies, 2013
TechTarget (2013). Retrieved from
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/magazineContent/Case-study-NY-Mets-adddeduplication-to-roster?pageNo=1