Re: I'm puzzled
It's generally understood dedupe can be very useful in VDI, which is not really a static environment. On the other hand video archive is as static as it comes but only benefits from dedupe if completely unmanaged. As the folk at DD and elsewhere have shown dedupe is a very useful technology for backup. Compression tends to be much more effective than dedupe in the database world. Ultimately it's the nature of the data set that determines if dedupe may be useful and while plenty have over sold it that doesn't mean it, and its often forgotten twin compression, are not useful across a wide range of workflows.
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