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Tutorials
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DPI: 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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Fall 2008 |
DPI: Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies
Many disk 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), small aperture
snapshots (SAS), 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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Fall 2008 |
DPI: 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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Fall 2008 |
DPI: Trends in Data Protection -- CDP and VTL
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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Fall 2007 |
DPI: Disk and Tape Backup Methodologies
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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Fall 2007 |
DPI: Identifying and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks
This tutorial reveals the
obvious and not-so-obvious bottlenecks found in enterprise backup systems
and offers practical examples for applying the technologies described in
the Data Protection tutorials to 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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Spring 2008 |
ILM: Classification: The Cornerstone for Compliance and Cost-Driven Information Management
Without a clear understanding of all the information under management
in your environment, it is impossible to get a handle on information
growth, compliance-related risk mitigation and information management
costs.The practice of information classification is fundamental to an
effective information-centric ILM strategy.Information classification
requires that I.T. administrators work with Line-of-Business and
knowledge workers to gain an understanding of the data to be
managed.Once a clear set of goals and policies are established you can
efficiently organize your information into tiers of service that will
meet the performance, protection, and compliance requirements of your
business.
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Fall 2008 |
ILM: Information-Centric Policy Management
As enterprises deal with accelerating information growth rates and
growing complexity in the data center, one strategy that has proven
effective in addressing scalability and effectiveness is the use of IT
Service Management – applied from any one of many different disciplines
including ITIL, itSMF, CobiT, and others. This has been especially true as
it relates to storage service management and its relation to tiers of
storage. This tutorial will look at how this same framework can be used
effectively for information management-related policies.
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Fall 2007 |
ILM: The Secret Sauce of ILM, The Professional Assessment
Does Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) seem large and fuzzy with
the promise of lots of work for little return? It may be a bunch of
work, but the little return part is a fallacy that has been disproven in
many large data centers. This session will focus on how you can "kick
butt" with ILM, achieve expectations from your project, set reasonable
objectives, and get cooperation and assistance along the
way. Sound too good to be true? This session was
developed by SNIA's Professional Services ILM Task Group. There are
plenty of "real-life" examples that have been gathered from among your
peers.
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Fall 2008 |
LTACSI: Compliance Storage: The risk of retention and deletion in the face of FRCP
The new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures, FRCP, have
changed the face of the business risk of retaining information in an
uncontrolled manner. eDiscovery requirements to produce legally and
forensically authentic information impact IT and storage operations in
ways you may have never considered. This presentation will update you
on current requirements and best practices and how they affect the
management of your storage resources and information assets.
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Fall 2008 |
LTACSI:Retaining Information for 100 Years
Many organizations now have a requirement to preserve large volumes of
digital content indefinitely into the future, and to maintain access to
that content for medical treatment decisions, e-discovery, appreciation
ofcultural and scientific history etc. Frequent news stories cover
organizations' failure to be able to do this, such as the near loss of
original video and data of the first Moon landing, eventually recovered
from a set of 14-inch tape reels found in dusty Australian
basement.This session will focus on the most important questions in
long-term digital preservation, and understand why it is still so
difficult. Suggestions will be made as to how the storage industry can
allow its customers to keep and make use of 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.
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Fall 2008 |
LTACSI: Best Practices for Long-Term Retention of Digital Information
Compliance, legal, business, discovery, and security risk have changed
the value and risk of owning and administrating information within the
datacenter. Old approaches to retaining, preserving, and
disposing of information in multiple isolated and 'siloed'
'electronic archives' no longer meet today's requirements for reduced
operating costs, scale, and high efficiencies. This
presentation highlights new work being spearheaded by the
SNIA's Data Management Forum to produce a reference
architecture for best practices in long-term digital information retention
based on information-lifecycle-management methods.
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Spring 2008 |
LTACSI: Archiving and Compliance Infrastructure
The tutorial provides a view into the compelling events driving the
implementation of archiving and compliance. It looks at the role of process
in compliance, and introduces the concept and details of compliance
archiving infrastructures.
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Fall 2007 |
LTACSI: Storage Considerations and Requirements for Database Archiving
The concept of maintaining a long-term archive is not new, but
application data introduces many new challenges. According to the SNIA
Archive Task Force 100 Year Archive Requirements Survey, over 81% of
respondents feel database data is the most at risk. Database data is
vulnerable to loss due to the decay and obsolescence of the media on which
it is stored, and becomes inaccessible and unreadable when software needed
to interpret it becomes obsolete and is lost. The way in which you might
implement ILM or tiered storage is different when applied to application
data. This tutorial will discuss archiving strategies and long term
implications of how database data should be stored and accessed.
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Spring 2008 |
LTACSI: Solving the Coming Archive Crisis
The volume of digital information being kept online for long term is
overwhelming and leading to a crisis of cost and complexity. New methods,
practices, and standards are required to deal with the avalanche.
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Fall 2007 |
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