Data Protection and Management

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• Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond
• Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies
• Advanced Data Reduction Concepts

The Abstracts

Introduction to Data Protection Backup to Tape Disk and Beyond
Jason Iehl
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Extending the enterprise backup paradigm 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, snapshot, replication and 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 storage efficient technologies like deduplication within these infrastructures.

Learning Objectives

• Get a basic grounding in backup and restore technology including tape, disk, snapshots, deduplication, and replication technologies. 
• Compare and contrast backup and restore alternatives to achieve data protection and data recovery.
• Identify and define things to keep in mind when trying architect backup and recovery solution

Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies
Michael Fishman
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Modern backup and archival technologies are used to augment established backup and data protection methodologies to deliver improved protection levels and accelerate information and application backup and restore performance. These technologies work in concert 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 covered include contemporary backup, disk-based backups, cloud-based backup, snapshot and mirroring, continuous data protection and compression and deduplication applied to both storage and networking traffic reduction.

Learning Objectives

• Understand legacy and contemporary storage and networking technologies that provide advanced data protection
• Compare and contrast advanced data protection alternatives focusing on trade-offs
• Gain insight into how various technologies can improve the performance of a data protection  environment

Advanced Data Reduction Concepts
Gene Nagel
Thomas Rivera
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The two most prevalent forms of data reduction, compression and deduplication, have become widespread in many types and tiers of data storage.  This tutorial assumes a basic understanding of compression and deduplication and covers advanced topics that attendees will find helpful in understanding today’s expanded applications of these technologies to areas such as primary storage and cloud storage.    Topics will include:  • Trends in vendor data reduction design  • Integration of data compression and deduplication  • Practical techniques for compression and deduplication of primary storage data   • Pervasive deduplication across storage tiers  • Data reduction as an enabler of storage and data protection in the cloud  • Deduplication implications with storage array cache and SSD’s

Learning Objectives

• Have a clear understanding of current data reduction design trends
• Have the ability to discern between various deduplication design approaches and their strengths
• Recognize where compression and/or deduplication may and may not fit in their storage environment