I've been seeing more and more questions from customers about data deduplication technologies. I guess that's because I can't open a blog, website, or email related to technology without some vendor or another pushing the wonders of data deduplication.  Consequently, I thought I'd take a few minutes to describe what the technology is all about.  I'll sum up my thoughts on the the value of deduplication technology by saying "It depends".  Read my article entry at Database Trends & Applications magazine here. If someone in your company is pushing you to examine this very expensive … [Read more...]