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Term | Definition |
Global compression factor | Global compression, a form of data deduplication, compares incoming data to data that is already stored on disk and stores only the unique data segments. |
Local compression factor | Local compression reduces the size of a piece of incoming data by using compression algorithms. |
For more information, see Understanding Data Domain Compression.