An interesting aspect of NetApp’s primary dedupe (ASIS) came to light while talking with one of their customers the other day. It’s one of those things that should have been obvious from the start, but I never really thought about it until this customer brought it up.
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Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston). For those of you unfamiliar with my work, I've specialized in backup & recovery since 1993. I've written the O'Reilly books on backup and have worked with a number of native and commercial tools. I am now Chief Technical Evangelist at Druva, the leading provider of cloud-based data protection and data management tools for endpoints, infrastructure, and cloud applications. These posts reflect my own opinion and are not necessarily the opinion of my employer.