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Shoden takes lego approach to de-duped mainframe VTL

Anonymous Coward

De duplicating 

"strip out repetitive patterns at block level and so greatly reduce the amount of data actually written to disk."

Err...so what makes that different from conventional data compression?

Anonymous Coward

Surely 

Coat

...If this is a Lego approach then it is "de-duplo"?