Darren Thomas

Dell’s Dedupe Play

Justin Scheck, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 11, 2009 at 4:58 am PT

Until three weeks ago, few people outside corporate data centers knew much about deduplication technology, which makes data storage more efficient by culling repetitive documents. That changed when data storage companies NetApp and EMC got into a bidding war last month for a leading provider of the heretofore obscure software.