3 DE-DUPLICATION OPTIONS: HOW DO YOU CHOOSE?

When collecting raw ESI from multiple individuals, there are bound to be tremendous amounts of duplicative documents. In company-wide e-mail chains, for example, a message is sent to multiple recipients and stored within each individual’s mailbox. Depending on your organization’s data retention policies, copies of the same file might also be found on the employee’s hard drive, file server, or company backup tape.When collecting raw ESI from multiple individuals, there are bound to be tremendous amounts of duplicative documents.

Near Deduplication and Email Threading

Deduplication is just one of the tools to help you save time and money.  As mentioned last week, data collections are growing bigger and bigger every day.  Deduplication will help you identify and exclude those documents so your reviewers spend less time reading the same document over and over again, but how can we take this to the next level?  That’s where Near Deduplication and Email Threading come in.  The time saved by identifying near duplicates and email threads can considerably streamline your review process and maintain consistency on how documents are reviewed.

The benefits of deduplication and where you should dedupe your data

To identify duplicates, data can be examined in different ways depending on the technology used. For example, file-level dedupe—also called single-instance storage(SIS)—will identify identical files, store a single copy and replace subsequent identical copies with a pointer to the unique version stored. Examples of file-level deduplication include Novell Inc.’s GroupWise and Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange (although SIS isn’t supported in Exchange 2010) email programs. EMC Corp. also provides file-level deduplication on its storage arrays, including Clariion, Celerra and its new VNX series.

Deduplication: Benefits and Costs

We know that the amount of data we store is exploding. Not only are we collecting more detailed information about specific things (e.g. servers, digital images, etc.), but we are also collecting information about more things (e.g. refrigerators, automobiles, etc.). We are quite literally experiencing the “Internet of Things” where uniquely identifiable objects are connected through modern networking technology to provide us with an abundance of information.

A look into Data Deduplication feature and its advantages!

IT Professionals related to data storage field might have come across the term “Data De-Duplication” by now. But still there exist a small proportion of them who are connected to the field somehow, but are not familiar with the term and its real benefits. So, here’s a small post for them to know what exactly is Data Deduplication aka Dedup and its benefits.

The Real Benefits of Deduplication

Amid all the talk about the brave new data environments coming our way, there are still some hard facts that won't change no matter what kind of data infrastructure is in place. One of these is that there are no such things as unlimited resources. Sure, in theory you may soon have access to everything you could conceivably need, but the amount is still finite-and so is your ability to pay for it. This is especially true for storage, which does not gain the same kind of benefit that virtualization brings to servers and networking. A byte of data requires a byte of storage-another one of those hard facts.

3 DE-DUPLICATION OPTIONS: HOW DO YOU CHOOSE?

When collecting raw ESI from multiple individuals, there are bound to be tremendous amounts of duplicative documents. In company-wide e-mail chains, for example, a message is sent to multiple recipients and stored within each individual’s mailbox. Depending on your organization’s data retention policies, copies of the same file might also be found on the employee’s hard drive, file server, or company backup tape.When collecting raw ESI from multiple individuals, there are bound to be tremendous amounts of duplicative documents. In company-wide e-mail chains, for example, a message is sent to multiple recipients and stored within each individual’s mailbox. Depending on your organization’s data retention policies, copies of the same file might also be found on the employee’s hard drive, file server, or company backup tape.