Eliminating Back Up Bottlenecks - Rochester
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM (ET)
Rochester, NY
Event Details
Eliminating Back Up Bottlenecks
Breathing New Life Into Your Existing Backup System and Developing a Strategy for Comprehensive Data Protection
Brought to you by the University of Rochester and the Usenix Association
Duration: 3 hours, not including 30-minute break and Q&A
Intended Audience:
System administrators involved in the design and management of backup systems and policy-makers responsible for protecting their organizations' data. A general familiarity with server and storage hardware is assumed. The class focuses on architectures and core technologies and is relevant regardless of what backup hardware and software you currently use.
Topics Include:
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Identifying and eliminating backup system bottlenecks
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Comparing disk-to-disk backup methods
- VTL (virtual tape libraries)
- Conventional disk staging
- CDP / Block-level incremental
- Deduplication
- Proper and improper use cases
- Comparing dedupe technologies
- Optimizing backup jobs
- Synthetic full backups
- Incremental forever
- Block-level incremental
- Self-protecting storage solutions
- Data replication
- Snapshots
- Redefining (or eliminating) the role of tape
- Life cycle management and archiving
The data protection industry is going through a mini-renaissance. In the past few years, the cost of disk media has dropped to the point where it is practical to use disk arrays in backup systems, thus minimizing and sometimes eliminating the need for tape. In the first incarnations of disk-to-disk backup—disk staging and virtual tape libraries—disk has been used as a direct replacement for tape media. While this compensates for the mechanical shortcomings of tape drives, it fails to address other critical bottlenecks in the backup system, and thus many disk-to-disk backup projects fall short of expectations. Meanwhile, many early adopters of disk-to-disk backup are discovering that the longterm costs of disk staging and virtual tape libraries are prohibitive.
The good news is that the next generation of disk-enabled data protection solutions has reached a level of maturity where they can assist—and sometimes even replace—conventional enterprise backup systems. These new D2D solutions leverage the random access properties of disk devices to use capacity much more efficiently and to obviate many of the hidden backup-system bottlenecks that are not addressed by first-generation solutions. Some of these next-generation approaches integrate with conventional backup systems; others build data protection logic into primary storage devices; others are commonly categorized as content archiving and/or life cycle management solutions.
This lecture takes two approaches. First it examines the obvious and not-so-obvious bottlenecks in conventional backup systems and describes various methods for eliminating bottlenecks and allowing the backup system to scale up. Second it looks at alternative approaches to managing and protecting data that take the burden off the conventional backup system. The overall objective is to help the backup system architect cut through the industry hype, sort out all of these new technologies, and figure out how to design and integrate a comprehensive data protection strategy.
About the Presenter: Our presenter is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. His no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. He is a regular lecturer at many of the nation’s leading colleges and universities. Inside the data storage industry, he is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Most recently, he was voted "Best Speaker" at Storage Networking World
Questions: Please feel free to contact at Sharon at 315-469-4049
Agenda:
Thursday, April 22, 2009
8:00 am: Doors open / Sign in Begins
9:00 am: Eliminating Back Up Bottlenecks
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lecture Wrap up and Q&A
Thank you to our sponsor: The USENIX Association
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