I'm curious if the core iOS apps such as Messages and Photos use any sort of single instance storage or deduplication or other methods to save on storage space. Quick example: I take a picture on my ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Absolutely; there are two areas where data deduplication, or single-instance storage, can help. Deduplication is fairly common today in backups using a variety of appliances or software. Since this is ...