Clarification

This article is a bit misleading as although Symantec already have a totally positive story for the backup of remote offices that doesn't need hardware vendor tie-in, they also already offer deduplication away from the remote office via the PDDO option for Netbackup . Admittedly this is server side de-dup as opposed to client side, but does avoid any client overhead.

What El Reg is talking about is client side de-dup. That will come in NBU and BUE. It might even have come with EMC, but by their desperate actions in trying to buy Data Domain they're clearly saying that their current de-dup technology - Avamar - doesn't cut the mustard, hence them looking elsewhere.

Who does that leave? Commvault? Themselves a potential acquisition target? Tolly Group didn't seem to rate them...

http://www.tolly.com/DocDetail.aspx?DocNumber=209125

http://www.tolly.com/DocDetail.aspx?DocNumber=209123