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Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond
Michael Fishman
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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 Restoration Technologies
Jason Iehl, Andreas Schwegman
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Many disk technologies, both old and new, are being used to augment tried and true backup and data protection methodologies to deliver better information and application restoration 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, snapshots, continuous data protection and capacity optimized storage (deduplication)
Learning Objectives
• Understand legacy and contemporary storage technologies that provide advanced data protection
• Compare and contrast advanced data protection alternatives
• Gain insight in how these various technologies can impact the performance of an environment
Understanding Data Deduplication
Tom Sas
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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 waht data deduplication is, how it is performed, and the architechtural choices available today. the topics covered include source and target deduplication, inline and post-processing, fixed lenght and variable length segmentation, as well as the availability and integrity of deduplicate data, and the complimentary use of replication and removable media. It will aslo explore the factors affecting space reduction ratios relative to specific deduplication techniques.
Learning Objectives
• To understand the difference between various deduplication methodologies.
• Indentify the impact of data deduplication on replication and the use of removable media.
• Correlate data deduplication to the space reductions effects that are achieved.
Retaining Information for 100 Years
Mary Baker, 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.
Active Archive: Data Protection for the Modern Data Center
Molly Rector, Dr. Rainer Pollak
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Backup has long been thought of as the key technology for data protection. However, in today’s modern data centers, the fastest moving and most fundamental changes in data protection are actually in Archive. Today’s archive solutions enable affordable, near-line, long-term data retention. Case studies will be presented to illustrate how active archives are being utilized in healthcare, broadcast, finance, education and oil/gas environments to have affordable, power efficient, near-line access to their entire data archive. Join us to learn about both the software applications that can now manage data archives to enable online search and access to the entire archive; and, learn about the storage platforms that are designed to support the needs of the archive. This session will also focus on developments in tape-based storage platforms that have made them accessible through a file system interface and the preferred storage medium for archive.
Learning Objectives
• The definition of active archive and its benefits in the modern data center
• Where is active archive being used today? See several real-world case studies
• The evolution of tape-based storage and the role tape will play in 2010 and beyond
Deduplication's Role in Disastery Recovery
Thomas Rivera
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Data deduplication can be applied to replication of data for disaster recovery projects, since deduplication significantly reduces the amount of bandwidth required to replicate data. This technical session will address the question of how deduplication fits into DR strategies, and what the various architectural choices available today are - for implementation.
Learning Objectives
• The first learning objective is to understand what deduplication is, and how it can help with data replication projects for meeting DR objectives.
• The second learning objective is to identify the impact of data deduplication on replication over a WAN.
• The third learning objective is to understand how the use of data deduplication affects meeting data protection SLAs for DR environments.
