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Date: Tuesday, March 11th, Microsoft Waltham
Topic: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for NAS Data
Overview: As network attached storage has matured, users have entrusted increasingly critical data to it, creating requirements for protection against failures and disasters. This session will discuss the primary techniques for protecting data stored on NAS systems against loss or destruction by threats ranging from hardware and software component failure to accidental or deliberate corruption to disasters that incapacitate entire data centers.
Backup, RAID and mirroring, system fail-soft, snapshots, continuous and periodic replication, and NAS system clustering will all be discussed. For each technique, the threats against which it protects, the inherent cost, and the expected recovery time and recovery point objectives will be presented. The goal of the session is to give attendees an appreciation for the high availability and disaster protection options available for NAS-managed data.
Speaker: Paul Massiglia, Chief Technology Strategist, Agami
Speaker Bio: Paul Massiglia has been associated with the data storage industry for over 25 years. During that time, he has held engineering and marketing positions with major storage hardware and software suppliers, including, the former Digital Equipment Corporation, Adaptec Inc., Quantum Corporation, and VERITAS (now Symantec), where he created and directed VERITAS Publishing. He has been vice-chairman of the RAID Advisory Board, a Board of Directors member of the SNIA, as well as a member of other industry organizations including the Fibre Channel Association, the Fibre Channel Loop Community, and the SCSI Trade Association. Paul is also the author or editor of thirteen books on data storage-related topics, he is also a frequent participant in and speaker at industry conferences. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Colorado Technical University.
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