Singapore research project aims to make cloud storage more efficient
Acronis has launched its first joint research initiative with A*Star's Data Storage Institute (DSI) that aims to make cloud storage more efficient and eliminate redundant data.
The announcement follows the launch of its R&D lab in Singapore last July, when the storage vendor said it would invest more than S$55 million in R&D here over the next five years. In a previous ZDNet report, Acronis had also revealed it was in discussions with A*Star and Economic Development Board on five joint research projects focused on cloud backup optimisation and software-defined data storage, among others.
Specifically, the initiative with DSI would look at scalable deduplication (dedupe) of distributed data storage, an essential technology to eradicate redundant data and reduce cloud storage consumption.
