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Data Center NetworkingDell's Into Primary Dedupe, Who's Next?Dell's Into Primary Dedupe, Who's Next?
Dell, with their announced acquisition of Ocarina Networks, put themselves squarely in the deduplication market joining both NetApp, Oracle (SUN) and EMC as storage system companies offering some form of primary storage deduplication. While it remains to be seen what Dell does with the Ocarina technology, it clearly sends a signal to other storage system vendors that primary deduplication is going to be a required capability just like snapshots are today.
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