NetApp Releases A-SIS Deduplication Technology

Network Appliance has announced the availability of NetApp advanced single-instance storage (A-SIS) deduplication for NetApp NearStore and FAS storage systems to help customers achieve deduplication across a wide variety of environments, including backup, archival, compliance storage, and primary data sets as diverse as home directories and genomic data.

The introduction of NetApp A-SIS deduplication claims to provide customers with the ability to reduce capital expenditures and management costs by reducing the amount of storage they need to purchase and manage. The reduction in quantity of physical storage translates into savings in power and cooling costs and data centre real estate costs.

“Deduplication, at its core, is another form of data virtualisation, in which one physical copy represents many logical copies,” said Tony Asaro, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Deduplication creates a domino effect of efficiency, reducing capital, administrative, and facility costs. We believe that data deduplication is one of the most important and valuable technologies in storage.”

NetApp A-SIS deduplication technology has been in customer use for approximately two years, in conjunction with Symantec NetBackup. Today, the same technology is available as an integral part of NetApp storage systems and can be deployed with a wide range of data types. A-SIS deduplication can be enabled on NetApp FAS and NearStore R200 storage systems with one simple command.