Comments on: Data deduplication: no lifeguard on duty? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/data-deduplication-no-lifeguard-on-duty/ A SearchStorage.com blog. Wed, 15 May 2013 20:05:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tory Skyers http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/data-deduplication-no-lifeguard-on-duty/#comment-7067 Tory Skyers Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:04:01 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/21/data-deduplication-no-lifeguard-on-duty/#comment-7067 In my opinion the customer is not going overboard, I’ve had similar concerns. I’ve posed questions to de-dupe resellers about the validity of the data that has been de-duped and would it be able to stand up in court. I haven’t gotten an answer that I understand, or better stated the answers that I’ve gotten haven’t been: “Yes” or “No”. In industries where regulatory agencies can simply shut your doors, and doing so costs you billions in R&D, if they decide someone has tampered with test results or data collection methods I can completely understand why Pharma would be paranoid.

I don’t know that breaking up the process will help me sleep better at night, but in the scheme of things is the extra savings in disk worth the risks that block level data manipulation poses?

I may sound like a naysayer, but I actually like de-dupe, I think it’s a great idea who’s time for the spotlight has come, and am a proponent but not the way it seems it’s being pitched as a panacea for storage growth. Not every technology is meant for every application and sometimes saving money isn’t the primary item on the project request form.

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