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I’m going to state the obvious: big data is a complex animal… and it’s getting hairier by the minute. But unfortunately, too many organizations add to that complexity by managing their big data environments with APIs, scripts, and duct tape. As NoSQL data stores become a larger component of “big data,” preparing for backup and […]

Data deduplication is a technique that improves storage utilization by identifying unique data and storing only one instance of that data. Any occurrence of the unique data is replaced with a small reference to the correspondingly stored single instance of that data block. Storage-based data deduplication is most effective in applications where many copies of

Some of the attendees who stopped by our booth asked us whether their scale-out databases needs to be backed up, so I reflected on this conundrum for a couple of days. Yes, these databases keep multiple copies of the data so why do they need backup? I know I have a good answer, but how