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Comment Tip #9 Data Deduplication one-sided (Score 1) 256

by werld on Saturday June 05, 2010 @01:03PM (#32469364) Attached to: 10 Tips For Boosting Network Performance

Whomever wrote this article only mentioned back-end data de-dup. Avamar (EMC) is client side data de-dup, hence lowering network traffic for backups and spreading the work load to the clients during backup windows.

Submission + - IBM and Kaiser strike $500 Million dollar deal (examiner.com)

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werld

on Monday March 16, 2009 @05:26PM

werld writes: "IBM Corp. will help provide members of the Kaiser Permanente health care program with up-to-date online medical data as part of a seven-year, $500 million technology-services contract disclosed Monday. The outsourcing means 700 Kaiser employees will lose their jobs, though some might be eligible to work for IBM, the company said."

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