It’s back! Our SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) webcast
series “Everything You Wanted
to Know About Storage but Were Too Proud to Ask” will
return on August 18, 2020. After a little hiatus, we are going to tackle the
topic of data reduction.
Everyone knows data volumes are growing rapidly (25-35% per year
according to many analysts), far faster than IT budgets, which are constrained
to flat or minimal annual growth rates. One of the drivers of such rapid data
growth is storing multiple copies of the same data. Developers copy data for
testing and analysis. Users email and store multiple copies of the same files.
Administrators typically back up the same data over and over, often with minimal
to no changes.
To avoid a budget crisis and paying more than once to store the
same data, storage vendors and customers can use data reduction techniques such
as deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, clones, and snapshots.
On August 18th, our live webcast “Everything You Wanted
to Know about Storage but Were Too Proud to Ask – Part Onyx” will
focus on the fundamentals of data reduction, which can be performed in
different places and at different stages of the data lifecycle. Like most
technologies, there are related means to do this, but with enough differences
to cause confusion. For that reason, we’re going to be looking at:
- How companies
end up with so many copies of the same data - Difference
between deduplication and compression – when should you use one vs. the
other? - Where and when to
reduce data: application-level, networked storage, backups, and during
data movement. Is it best done at the client, the server, the storage, the
network, or the backup? - What are
snapshots, clones, and thin provisioning, and how can they help? - When to collapse
the copies: real-time vs. post-process deduplication - Performance
considerations
Register today for this
efficient and educational webcast, which will cover valuable concepts with
minimal repetition or redundancy!