Data Protection and Management

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Advanced Deduplication Concepts
Larry Freeman, Tom Pearce
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Since arriving on the scene 10 years ago, the adoption of data deduplication has become widespread throughout the storage and data protection community. This tutorial assumes a basic understanding of deduplication and covers topics that attendees will find helpful in understanding today’s expanded use of this technology.

Topics will include:
• Trends in vendor deduplication design
• Practical deduplication of primary storage
• Using deduplication to reduce storage network traffic
• Pervasive deduplication across storage tiers
• Deduplication implications with storage array cache and SSD’s
• Integration of Data Compression and deduplication

Learning Objectives

Have a clear understanding of current deduplication design
Have the ability to discern between various deduplication design approaches and strengths
Recognize new potential use cases for deduplication in their storage environment

Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies
Jason Iehl
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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).

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 Application Recovery
Andreas Schwegmann
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You will get an introduction into the challenges and trends in application backup and recovery. You will be guided through all layers from the service down to the physical hardware. You will learn how to recover individual lost pieces of information up to the recovery of the entire application distributed across complex and virtualized environments. You will get some ideas how to deal with the human factor in IT environments with distributed responsibilities. Finally the session discusses how to balance service level against cost.

Dedupe's Role in Disaster Recovery
Gene Nagle, Thomas Rivera
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Data deduplication can often be very helpful when 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

Participants will review what deduplication is and will learn how it can help with data replication projects for meeting DR objectives.
Participants will understand the impact of data deduplication on replication over a WAN and on the use of cloud storage as the DR target.
Participants will be able to decide whether data deduplication will help them meet data protection SLAs for their particular DR environment.