Deduplication solutions ‘help to enable cloud storage’

The use of deduplication solutions could be effective for companies looking to migrate some or all of their data to the cloud, it has been suggested.

Speaking to the InfoStor website, Dennis Rolland, director of advanced technology at data protection company Sepaton, explained that the technology can act as an "enabler" for the introduction of cloud storage.

"It makes it practical to deploy cloud storage because you’re sending, say, ten times less data over the wide area network," he said.

Mr Rolland added that has "significant implications" for a company’s ability to deploy cloud-based disaster recovery solutions.

Earlier this month, the positive effects using deduplication solutions can have on a data centre were outlined by eWeek commentator Chris Preimesberger.

He said using the tools along with virtualisation can help to bring about improvements in bandwidth, storage capacity and server utilisation, meaning the solutions are helping to drive the evolution of such data centres.