Deduplication and Compression: Adoption, Practice and Deployment

Deduplication and Compression: An SSG-NOW Outlook Report

August 2011

Introduction

SSG-NOW Opinion

The market for deduplication and compression in the enterprise, small and mid-size businesses is growing as customers face          increasing amounts of data that must be stored either onsite or in the cloud.

Market Definition

Deduplication and compression of primary and secondary data is important as it can result in significant cost savings on expenditures for storage.

Included in this study are software, appliances and storage array implementations.

Methodology

Our strategy for measuring and analyzing the deduplication and compression market incorporates information from different, but interrelated, sources:

• Interviews with market participants (vendors) to determine product information, market and channel strategy and pricing
• Product briefings, press releases and other publicly available information. At SSG-NOW, our analysts meet with hundreds of vendors each year. These briefings provide an opportunity to review current and future product strategies, customer bases, target markets and other key product information.
• SSG-NOW’s user strategy interviews offer a compelling and consistent time-series view of industry trends and developments.

Situation Overview

Business Drivers and Market Trends

• SSG-NOW notes the following trends in the business drivers, competitive landscape and corporate purchasing behavior:
• Deduplication and compression are becoming integral to disk- and tape-based backup technologies.
• Every industry is experiencing explosive data growth, necessitating a measure for increasing storage efficiency.
• Deduplication and compression are quickly becoming requirements of backup and data protection tools

Deduplication and Compression Technology

Implementation
Source-based, Inline, Post-Processing
Benefits of Deduplication and Compression
Recommendations and Best Practices

IT Professionals Survey on Deduplication and Compression

Competitive Landscape

Arkeia
Bridgestor
CA ARCServe
COFIO
CommVault
Dell Compellent
Dell EqualLogic
Dell Ocarina
Druva
EMC Networker
EMC Data Domain
EMC Avamar
Exagrid
Exar
FalconStor
GreenBytes
HP StoreOnce
Huawei Symantec
IBM Realtime Compression
IBM StorWize
IBM Diligent
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Inquinox
NetApp
Open source deduplication
Oracle
Permabit
Quantum
SEPATON
Spectra Logic
Symantec NetBackup
Symantec BackupExec
Symantec Puredisk

Use case profiles

Small businesses
Mid-sized businesses
Enterprise Size Businesses

Outlook

Market Context

Recommendations and Guidance

List of Tables

Deduplication and Compression Prospectus 20110410