Data Deduplication Workshop, January 23-25, 2012, London, UK
The Data Deduplication workshop will be held from January 23 to January 25, 2012 in London. The workshop's targeted audience are IT administrators, data center managers, business intelligence analysts, programmers and a broad audience of IT professionals.

The workshop will cover the following topics:
A. Data deduplication benefits:
- at the storage/backup level
- at the network level
- at the virtual server level
B. Data deduplication methods:
- post-process deduplication , source deduplication, target deduplication
- in-line deduplication
- source vs. target deduplication
- chunking
- client backup deduplication
- primary storage and/or secondary storage
- client backup deduplication
C. Data deduplication drawbacks and overcoming them
D. Data deduplication tools:
- data deduplication platforms
- hardware or software?
E. Data deduplication market:
- data deduplication market forecast
- data deduplication market analysis
- data deduplication vendors
- data deduplication market landscape
U.S. Federal IT Market Adopts Data Deduplication Technology
February 2012: Market Research Media reports that there is growing evidence that federal agencies are using data duplication technologies to cope with data explosion and enhance disaster recovery and continuity. A new research study U.S. Federal IT Market Forecast 2013-2018 predicts double-digit growth for data deduplication segment of the Federal IT market in 2013-2018.
Imation Acquires Block-level Deduplication Technology
December 2011: Imation Corp., a storage technology provider, has acquired a key data deduplication technology from Nine Technology. This data deduplication software engine eliminates redundant data, enabling shorter backup windows, quicker recovery, lower infrastructure costs and more robust and reliable data protection. The acquired data backup and recovery intellectual property is a patented two-stage, block-level deduplication technology.