Date & Time:  Monday August 6, 2007 9 AM

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 will describe and compare 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. Technologies covered will include disk to disk backup, virtual tape libraries, replication, snapshots, continuous data protection and de-duplication.

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.

Instructors

• Michael Fishman- Chief Technologist for Backup platforms, EMC, Chair of the SNIA-Data Management Forum Education Committee
• Jason Iehl- Consulting Systems Engineer – Network Appliance, Co-Chair SNIA-DMF Data Protection Initiative
• Michael Rowan- Founder and CTO, Revivio, SNIA Member