While data has grown exponentially, there has been no real innovation in the technology to protect it. Over 80% of data within an enterprise is duplicated across production servers and end users – causing storage and bandwidth bottlenecks for backups.

Information – or data – is the key asset for any organisation. But while data has grown exponentially, there has been no real innovation in the technology to protect it. This is why over 80% of data within an enterprise is duplicated across production servers and end users – causing storage and bandwidth bottlenecks for backups.

To reduce the amount of storage and bandwidth required for data backups across an enterprise, companies need a ‘data deduplication’ solution. This process saves only a single copy of duplicate content – a reduction of up to 99% in backup time, bandwidth and storage.

For example, a typical email system might contain 100 instances of the same 1 MB file attachment. If the email platform is backed up or archived, all 100 instances are saved, requiring 100 MB storage space.

With data deduplication, only one instance of the attachment is actually stored; each subsequent instance is just referenced back to the one saved copy reducing storage and bandwidth demand to only 1 MB. However, indexing of all data is still retained should that data ever be required.

Enterprise data today is more dispersed and diverse than ever. And with over 30% critical corporate data sitting on PCs, administrators can no longer hold the end user responsible for its protection.

The best corporate data protection solutions combine source-based data deduplication and continuous data protection.

One of the popular options for office and remote users is Druva inSync, featuring simple backup and point-in-time restores. Get a free trial today at http://www.druva.com

An author by heart – Emily Katie