IDC Buyers Case Study - VMware Improves Network Utilization and Backup Performance Using EMC Avamar Deduplication

This IDC Buyer Case Study is based on a March 2009 interview with Chanh Chi, IT architect at VMware, and Michael Pate, manager of Technical Operations at VMware examines the company's use of client-side deduplication. In 2007, VMware evaluated and deployed the Avamar client-side deduplication and replication offerings as a means of protecting and recovering over 300 physical and virtual systems across its infrastructure.