ReFS – a new and improved approach

I was looking through some email today and saw a newsletter from ZDNet at the top of my inbox.  Normally these don’t get my immediate attention, but for some reason, today… it did.  There was a post from Mary Jo Foley (linked below) looking at the upcoming file system in Windows Server 8, ReFS. I [...]

Microsoft Adds Data Deduplication to NTFS in Windows 8

The next version of Microsoft Windows Server includes integrated data deduplication technology. Microsoft is positioning this as a boon for server virtualization and claims it has very little performance impact. But how exactly does Microsoft’s de-duplication technology work?