What is DFR or Data Footprint Reduction?
September 17, 2010 – 1:43 am
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What is DFR or Data Footprint Reduction?
Data Footprint Reduction (DFR) is a collection of techniques, technologies, tools and best practices that are used to address data growth management challenges. Dedupe is currently the industry darling for DFR particularly in the scope or context of backup or other repetitive data.
However DFR expands the scope of expanding data footprints and their impact to cover primary, secondary along with offline data that ranges from high performance to inactive high capacity.
Consequently the focus of DFR is not just on reduction ratios, its also about meeting time or performance rates and data protection windows.
This means DFR is about using the right tool for the task at hand to effectively meet business needs, and cost objectives while meeting service requirements across all applications.
Examples of DFR technologies include Archiving, Compression, Dedupe, Data Management and Thin Provisioning among others.
Read more about DFR in Part I and Part II of a two part series found here and here.
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Greg Schulz – Author The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
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