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DE-DUPLICATION IN A VIRTUALIZED SERVER ENVIRONMENT

  • US 20090063528A1
  • Filed: 09/28/2007
  • Published: 03/05/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for de-duplicating redundant data in memory, storage, or both, comprising:

  • providing a virtualization layer on a computer architecture comprising memory for temporarily storing data, and storage for persistently storing data;

    running a server application on the virtualization layer, the server application reading data from a portion of the storage into a portion of the memory and writing data to the portion of the storage from the portion of the memory, the virtualization layer presenting a representation of at least the portion of the memory and at least the portion of the storage to the server application; and

    running a data de-duplication application on the computer architecture to de- duplicate data in one or more of memory and storage.

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