Based on recent studies, we’ve seen enterprise organizations report that as much as 60% of their annual capital IT budget is related to storage hardware. This may come at no surprise, with the ever increasing trend in most businesses to keep more-and-more data online and directly accessible to users.
Of course, a large portion of consumed storage may be due to duplicated files and other redundant data stored by users on network file shares. To help reduce disk space (and storage costs) occupied by duplicated data files, Windows Server 2012 now includes a built-in Data Deduplication feature for any NTFS volume hosted on a Windows Server 2012 file server.
This month, we’re joined by Guido van Brakel, Principal Consultant and Subject Matter Expert at Enduria. As a frequent contributor to the IT Pro Community at-large, Guido is always eager to share new information. In this article, Guido will walk us through our new Data Deduplication feature so that you can see how easily you can leverage it in your own environment to save on disk space and storage costs ...
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