Patent 10592347 was granted and assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on March, 2020 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A technique includes communicating a plurality of hashes associated with chunks of an object to at least some stores of a plurality of stores on which the object is distributed; and in response to the communication, receiving responses indicating a distribution of the associated chunks. The technique includes selecting one of the stores based at least in part on the responses and communicating deduplicated data associated with the object to the selected store.