Falconstor, Inc.

Cirrus Data Solutions, Inc.

Wayne Lam

Chang Liu

Wai T Lam

A method of deduplicating data is disclosed comprising mounting, by a deduplication appliance, network shared storage of a client machine, via a network, accessing data to be deduplicated on the network shared storage device, deduplicating the data, storing the deduplicated data on a second storage device, and replacing the data in the network shared storage device by at least one indicator of the location of the deduplicated data in the second storage device. A method is also disclosed for copying deduplicated data stored by a deduplication appliance, by a client machine, comprising receiving a request to copy data from a first location to a second location, by the client machine, by providing at least one second indicator to the third location on the deduplication appliance, at the second location, if the source and the destination are on the deduplication appliance. Systems are also disclosed.

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Wayne Lam