Trends in Backup and Restoration Technologies

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, as well as cloud services. This tutorial will cover how these technologies interoperate, as well as best practices recommendations for deployment in today's heterogeneous data centers. Learning Objectives Understand backup and restore technology including tape, disk, snapshots, deduplication, virtual tape, replication technologies and the cloud. Compare and contrast backup and restore alternatives to achieve data protection and data recovery. Identify and define backup and restore operations and terms.