Hewlett-Packard on June 23 will announce that it is joining a growing group of data storage providers by adding its own brand of deduplication software to two new storage arrays.

The company will introduce the new disk-based backup systems with data deduplication technology that increases disk utilization by up to 50 times to deliver scalable storage, HP Storage Marketing Director Patrick Eitenbichler told eWEEK.

Data deduplication technology eliminates redundant data from a disk storage device to lower storage space requirements. EMC Avamar, Data Domain, Quantum, NetApp, Sepaton, 3PAR and a number of other companies have been using this technique—most of them for years.

"When we looked at how we were going to provide data deduplication to our customers, we quickly determined that one size did not fit all," Eitenbichler told me. "At the high end, we had customers using other data deduplication products that had problems with scalability. When they installed it, they found that it didn't cover everything, so they had to buy another one and put it next to the first one.

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