Data Protection and Management

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Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond
Jason Iehl
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Extending the enterprise backup paradigm with disk-based technologies allow users to significantly shrink or eliminate the backup time window. This tutorial focuses on various methodologies that can deliver an efficient and cost effective disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) solution. This includes approaches to storage pooling inside of modern backup applications, using disk and file systems within these pools, as well as how and when to utilize deduplication and virtual tape libraries (VTL) within these infrastructures.

Learning Objectives:

Get a basic grounding in backup and restore technology including tape, disk, snapshots, deduplication, virtual tape, and replication technologies
Compare and contrast backup and restore alternatives to achieve data protection and data recovery
Identify and define backup and restore operations and terms

Trends in Data Protection and Data Restoration Technologies
Michael Fishman
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Disk-based data protection solutions are used to augment and sometimes replace existing tape-based backup and data protection methodologies to deliver better information and application restore performance. These technologies work in parallel with the existing backup paradigm. This session will discuss many of these technologies in detail. Important considerations of data protection include performance, scale, regulatory compliance, recovery objectives and cost. Technologies include contemporary backup, disk based backups, deduplication, snapshots, continuous data protection and capacity optimized storage. Detail of these technologies will be provided as well as best practices recommendations for deployment in today's heterogeneous data centers.

Learning Objectives:

Understand legacy and contemporary storage technologies that provide advanced data protection
Compare and contrast advanced data protection alternatives
Gain insights into emerging DP technologies

A Crash Course in Wide Area Data Replication
Jacob Farmer
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Replicating data over a WAN sounds pretty straight-forward, but it turns out that there are literally dozens of different approaches, each with it's own advantages for different applications. Which approach is the best? Well, that depends on a wide variety of factors! This tutorial is a fast-paced crash course in the various ways in which data can be replicated and the pros and cons of each major approach. We trace the data path from applications to disk drives and examine all of the points along the way wherein replication logic can be inserted. We look at host based replication (application, database, file system, volume level, and hybrids), SAN replication (disk arrays, virtualization appliances, caching appliances, and storage switches), and backup system replication (block level incremental backup, CDP, and de-duplication).

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will learn about different ways to replicate data and how to match business needs to replication technology
Attendees will get a good overview of the terminology of data replication as well as most of the key concepts
Attendees will learn how other storage technologies such as snapshots, backups, SAN storage, and application-failover can integrate with replication solutions

Understanding Data Deduplication
Thomas Rivera
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Data deduplication is a space saving technology that is being used to dramatically improve storage efficiency in the datacenter. This technical session will address the question of what data deduplication is, how it is performed, and the architectural choices available today. The topics covered include source and target deduplication, inline and post-processing, fixed length and variable length segmentation, as well as the availability and integrity of deduplicated data, and the complementary use of replication and removable media. It will also explore the factors affecting space reduction ratios relative to specific deduplication techniques.

Retaining Information for 100 Years
Mary Baker and Roger Cummings
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Many organizations now have a requirement to preserve large volumes of digital content indefinitely into the future, and to maintain access for reasons such as medical treatment decisions, retention of intellectual property, and appreciation of cultural and scientific history. Frequent news stories cover organizations' failures to be able to do this, such as the near loss of original video/data of the first Moon landing, eventually recovered from a set of 14-inch tape reels found in a dusty Australian basement. This session will focus on the most important questions in long-term digital preservation and will demonstrate why it is still so difficult. We will propose how the storage industry can help its customers preserve and use their digital content over the lifetimes that they expect from past experience with physical and analog assets, lifetimes that can greatly exceed those of any single digital storage device or storage technology.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize the growing need in the storage industry to address long-term (> 15 years) digital preservation solutions, and why optimal solutions must be defined for different levels of available time, money and effort
Understand the threats to long-term digital content and how these threats differ from those associated with analog content and short-term digital assets
Identify current Best Practices, developed within SNIA and other organizations, for addressing these threats. List some of the unsolved problems in long-term digital preservation and identify opportunities for further progress

Creating a Catalog for Information Lifecycle Management Services
Bob Rogers and Paul Field
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Organizations looking to improve efficiencies in the data center need to have policies in place to assign information assets to the appropriate tier of service. Some organizations may find it difficult to create and use information lifecycle management policies due to their perceived complexity. This tutorial will discuss the concept of a storage services catalog and how it can facilitate the creation and use of storage tiers of service.

Learning Objectives:

Understand what a storage services catalog is and how it can benefit organizations looking to lower their costs using ILM
Show examples of storage services tiers and how they can be matched to different types of information assets