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DMF Speaker's Bureau
Data Protection Topics
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DMF Presentation or SNIA Tutorial Title |
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| Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond |
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 virtual tape libraries (VTL) within these infrastructures. |
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| Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies |
Many disk based data protection technologies, both old and new, are being used to augment tried and true backup methodologies to deliver better information and application restoration performance. These technologies work in parallel to the existing backup paradigm, either synergistically or completely orthogonally. This session will discuss many of these technologies in detail, including snapshots, full-copy snapshots (mirror-splits), differential snapshots, and small aperture snapshots (SAS), backup to disk, deduplication, virtual tape libraries (VTL), as well as continuous data protection (CDP) in its various forms. Detail about how these technologies operate will be provided as well as best practices recommendations for deployment in today's heterogeneous data centers. |
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Identifying and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks: Taking Your
Existing Backup System to the Next Level |
This tutorial reveals the obvious and not-so-obvious bottlenecks found in enterprise backup systems and offers practical examples for applying the technologies achieve one's performance objectives. The goal of this session is to illustrate how one can take an existing backup system to the next level by integrating a combination of modern backup techniques and low-cost disk. We start with the assumption that the end user has made a sizable investment in his/her enterprise backup system and is looking for a road map for affordable growth in both performance and capacity. We also assume that tape is here to stay (at least for now) and that the ultimate goal is to get data on tape for off-site removal. Topics include balancing the use of the LAN and SAN for backup traffic, ILM helping or hindering, achieving maximum performance from tape, disk staging with ordinary disk, de-duplication, block-level differencing, and virtual tape. The take home message is that you cannot simply buy your way out of backup system headaches, you must design your way out. |
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| Deduplication Methods for Achieving Data Efficiency |
Deduplication has become a very popular topic in the industry because of the potentially large reduction in cost and increase in efficiency it offers. Deduplication technologies are being promoted at various points within the storage network including source deduplication, deduplication of data in transit, and deduplication at the storage destination. Deduplication technologies are also being promoted in all tiers: backup, archiving, and primary storage. Each of these storage use cases represents a unique set of challenges. Implementing any deduplication technology has major implications for scale, performance, and functionality. Deduplication also has long term legal and compliance implications for records management. This session will review various deduplication technologies available and the implications of each. |
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This is a 3-hour workshop:
Data Protection: Transforming Data Protection for the Information- Centric Enterprise |
This tutorial focuses on how new data protection technologies can be deployed to meet the business objectives and service level requirements of organizations that rely on electronically stored information. Whether your business is subject to FRCP, HIPAA, SOX, or just more stringent corporate governance, IT departments are tasked with understanding and protecting multiple classes of data throughout their lifecycles and ensuring that costs are contained.
The tutorial describes and compares available data protection technologies architecturally and in the context of their service level characteristics, such as recovery capabilities. Common concerns, such as business continuity and reduction of business and legal risks will be addressed. Emphasis will be placed on disk-based technologies, which are quickly emerging as a vital component of the next generation data center's data protection infrastructure.
Practical considerations of integration, complexity and manageability of disk-based protection technologies will be addressed, so that attendees can apply the lessons learned to their individual circumstances. As part of the workshop, attendees will participate in an interactive re-design of a traditional data protection environment to meet specific service level agreements by integrating several disk-based technologies in the transformation.
Participants will be provided with reference materials and worksheets.
Learning Objectives
- Develop data protection strategies that meet the needs of today's and next-generation data centers.
- Understand the capabilities and limitations of disk-based data protection technologies such as CDP, VTL and snapshots.
- Understand the impact of disk-based data protection strategies on existing infrastructure, operations and in meeting desired service level objectives.
- Learn best practices for assessing, integrating and managing disk-based data protection practices.
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