Hewlett-Packard StoreOnce data deduplication software

StoreOnce data deduplication software can be deployed at multiple points in a converged infrastructure, reducing the number of times data has to be deduplicated and enabling clients to more efficiently manage and control data growth.

The single, unified architecture maximises deduplication performance while minimising hardware requirements.

It allows the same software to be used on backup clients, virtual appliances, inline appliances and scale-out storage systems, which means that clients need only one solution for all their deduplication. It is claimed to provide a significantly more efficient method for managing and protecting data while maximising utilisation of storage capacity than existing data deduplication offerings.

By eliminating the complexity of multiple deduplication processes and products, it provides improved productivity and data management efficiency and is claimed to show up to 20% improvement in performance for inline data deduplication.

Benefits of the software include improved performance through ‘smart data and index layout’ that reduces disk fragmentation and increases input/output efficiency.

It simplifies management and automation of data protection processes with the ability to manage multiple locations and easily replicate data from remote offices to data centres.

It improves efficiency due to ‘sparse indexing’ that reduces memory and disk I/O requirements for all types of workloads.