Data De-Duplication is an hot topic in the IT Industry, but is it really about products ? We have asked an EMC Field Representative to tell us what he's hearing from the customers, the findings are interesting : there are several ongoing  discussions about de-dup at the source, de-dup at target, reduction of the network utilization, some performance concerns. We have put togheter an approach , based on our field experience, to frame the discussion around these topics in order to help you choosing which solution will deliver the highest benefits to your organization. The first video will get to the point with a simple, logic approach to data-de-duplication terminologies and technologies then, when you've framed the discussion you can go further by viewing the introduction to EMC Avamar and EMC Disk Library with De-Duplication, two of the products part of the EMC Backup and Recovery portfoilio