An enterprise company needs the fastest deduplication technology for both backup and restore. Which technology should the company implement?

Hash-based chunking requires computing cryptographic hashes for every data chunk to identify duplicates, introducing significant computational overhead that reduces backup and restore throughput compared to object-aware differencing.

Object-level differencing operates at a semantic level above raw blocks or files, understanding the internal structure of application objects such as virtual machine disks or databases, and stores only the changed portions between versions. This targeted approach dramatically reduces the data written during backup and the data read during restore compared to lower-level methods, yielding superior throughput in both directions and making it the optimal choice when speed is the priority.

Application-based cloning creates full or near-full copies of application data and does not perform differential tracking or deduplication, making it inefficient for repeated backup operations.

Host-based file swapping is not a recognized enterprise deduplication technology and does not provide a mechanism for optimizing backup and restore speed through data reduction.