Already there
I just deployed Avamar 4 to cover 180 laptops, as opposed to severs. De-dup ratio is not so great, saving about 35%.
EMC's fifth version of Avamar has extended its capability from servers to desktop and notebooks, increased Data Store capacity by over 60 per cent and can write deduplicated data directly to tape. Avamar is deduplicating technology that runs in the system holding the data and removes block-level duplication, before sending the …