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The use of physical storage capacity is a common concern of storage administrators across the storage industry. The ever-growing amounts of data have created the need for more efficiency in the use of physical capacity. Dell PowerMax 2500 and 8500 data storage systems take this efficiency to the next level. Data reduction provides exceptional capacity savings while delivering optimal performance, leading to a smaller data center footprint and an overall reduction in TCO. In addition, using data reduction is as simple as making a single selection to enable or disable the feature. The PowerMax system handles all the work.