Six out of ten companies are using deduplication to increase the efficiency of their data storage, reduce requirements and constrain costs. The findings came in a survey carried out by Storage Expo. One quarter intend to implement the technology in the next year, even though 6 per cent claim it does not deliver what they expected.

Natalie Booth, event manager for Storage Expo 2008 says: "Data deduplication is a relatively new method of reducing storage needs and boosting efficiency by eliminating the data redundancies that exist in many traditional storage and data protection processes, such as backup."