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Comments on: Shoden takes lego approach to de-duped mainframe VTL

De duplicating 

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 14th November 2008 12:31 GMT

"strip out repetitive patterns at block level and so greatly reduce the amount of data actually written to disk."

Err...so what makes that different from conventional data compression?

Surely 

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 14th November 2008 14:21 GMT

Coat

...If this is a Lego approach then it is "de-duplo"?