Data deduplication is important because it significantly reduces your storage space needs, saving you money and reducing how much bandwidth is wasted on transferring data to/from remote storage locations.

Why do we need data deduplication?

Data Deduplication helps storage administrators reduce costs that are associated with duplicated data. Large datasets often have a lot of duplication, which increases the costs of storing the data. For example: User file shares may have many copies of the same or similar files.

What are the benefits of deduplication?

Benefits of data deduplication

Deduplication lowers storage costs as fewer disks are needed. It also improves disaster recovery since there's far less data to transfer. Backup and archive data usually includes a lot of duplicate data.