EMC announced a new line of deduplicating backup storage products this week at its annual EMC World conference held in Las Vegas. In addition to deduplication, the new offerings include disk drive spin down and low-power disk drive technologies, all of which are meant to lower the cost for businesses to use disk-based backups rather than tape. "The announcement is pretty significant because data in companies of all sizes is growing unabated," said Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
May 22nd 2008