Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu Linux

Abstract

The technology of data deduplication might still sound unfamiliar to public, but actually this technology has already been a necessary and important technique among the datacentres over the whole world. This paper systematically introduces the data deduplication technology including what is data deduplication, where it is from, and the mainstream classifications. Also the appliance of data deduplication in Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu will be simply covered so that it is easier to understand the principle and effect better.