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Software compression can be used to minimize the amount of data transferred over the wire and reduce the storage footprint. Software compression is available for all storage media. For auxiliary copy operations, data is copied in the compressed state.
The following entities include options to compress data:
Note: Some data is compressed or deduplicated in origin, such as SQL or Microsoft Exchange, and might not require further processing.