Webinar Overview
With the right workload, ZFS Fast Dedup can improve storage efficiency and help offset the rising cost of flash and NVMe storage.
Earlier versions of deduplication required careful evaluation due to memory and performance considerations, and administrators were often advised to avoid enabling ZFS dedup. Fast Dedup introduces a new approach that makes deduplication practical again for many environments.
Allan Jude, Klara Co-founder and Head of Solutions Architecture, is joined by Kris Moore, Sr. Vice President of Engineering at TrueNAS, to explain Fast Dedup in the new TrueNAS and how it works with ZFS features like compression, block cloning, and snapshots to increase storage efficiency and reduce storage costs.
We will also examine workloads where deduplication delivers the greatest impact, including virtual machines, VDI, containers, CI/CD artifacts, AI/ML datasets, and backup environments.
What You’ll Learn:
- How Fast Dedup differs from legacy ZFS dedup
- Combining Fast dedup with other ZFS efficiency features to maximize cost savings
- Making NVMe more affordable by storing more data with Fast Dedup
- Workloads with high dedup potential such as VMs, VDI, containers, CI/CD artifacts, AI/ML datasets, and backups
Date: April 29, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM EST
Duration: 50 minutes.
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Meet the Hosts
Principal Solutions Architect and co-Founder of Klara Inc., Allan Jude has been on the team since the beginning. Shepherding an amazing team of developers and sysadmins, he is the technical heart of our team. A community go-to person for ZFS and open source through and through, Allan enjoys spending his time improving on ZFS, FreeBSD and making open source code better.
Learn About Klara
As Sr. Vice President of Engineering at TrueNAS, Kris Moore has a long demonstrated history of leading teams in technology innovation. A strong information technology professional, he is skilled in Linux and UNIX-Like Operating Systems, Storage, Filesystems and general systems administration.
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