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In May, an article written by members of the DMF Long-term Archive and Compliance Storage Initiative (LTACSI), was featured in SNS Europe. The title of the article is “Solving digital preservation in the business data centre.” Read the full article

New White Paper

Understanding
Data Deduplication Ratios
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Data deduplication and other methods of reducing storage consumption play a vital role in affordably managing today’s explosive growth of data. The DMF Data Deduplication and Space Reduction SIG (DDSR SIG) has just released an informative white paper titled: Understanding Data Deduplication Ratios. This paper explores the significance of deduplication ratios related to specific capacity optimization techniques, within the context of information lifecycle management. Each of these techniques has a valuable role to play in improving data storage efficiency.

The LTACSI glossary is still open for comments and suggestions via the new DMF Community discussion forum. Have you registered yet? Click here to learn more.

Watch for these informative emails about twice a month with news on Data Management Forum activities and events. Comments, topic suggestions and questions are always welcome by emailing ebull@snia.org.