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COMPUTER STORAGE DEDUPLICATION

  • US 20100077013A1
  • Filed: 01/21/2009
  • Published: 03/25/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A data center comprising plural computer hosts and a storage system external to said hosts, said storage system including storage blocks for storing tangibly encoded data blocks, each of said hosts including a deduplicating file system for identifying and merging identical data blocks stored in respective storage blocks into one of said storage blocks so that a first file exclusively accessed by a first host of said hosts and a second file accessed exclusively by a second host of said hosts concurrently refer to the same one of said storage blocks.

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