Data De-duplication

Thursday, March 15, 2007
6:30 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.

Join your colleagues at the next meeting of The San Diego Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), featuring featuring Randy Hopkins, a Systems Engineer at Data Domain.

There will be light snacks and possibly some door prizes.

We will meet at 6:30PM at Sun Microsystems in the UTC area: 9515 Towne Centre Drive. Parking is free. The meeting cost is $3 for reservations paid in advance via PayPal (see the reservation page) or $5 at the door -- free for chapter members.

NOTE: Due to the lengthy interval since our last meeting, all memberships have been extended by six months.

This meeting is open to the public. For more information, call (858) 452-8701. Please forward this link to anyone whom you think may be interested.

Bring your colleagues and friends!

SEAT RESERVATIONS

Please reserve your seat for this meeting by March 14!

ABSTRACT

Data Deduplication

What is it
How it works
Why it is innovative
Data Domain innovation with Data Deduplication
Why it is important to IT infrastructures
How Data Deduplication is changing the landscape and procedures in IT departments

This talk will review the concepts of Capacity Optimized Storage – COS. This refers to the technology to determine unique data patterns of incoming backup streams and store only the required patterns to ensure a complete restore of the original data can be performed.  This technology reduces the amount of disk space consumed by an average of 15x – 30x or more.  Data Deduplication – what is it?  How does it work?  Why is it innovative.  What specific innovations has Data Domain implemented?  Why is important to IT infrastructures, and how it is changing the landscape and procedures in IT departments.  How can this technology be deployed to reduce WAN bandwidth requirements?


Presenter Bio

Randy Hopkins has been in the IT sector for 20 years as a software engineer and developer, system administrator, systems engineer and SAN Architect.

He has spent the past 7 years at EMC and Dell focusing on designing disaster recovery solutions and architecting Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and NAS environments for high availability and disaster recovery projects for customers in the west coast.

He recently joined Data Domain to focus on COS – Capacity Optimized Storage.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Calif. State University, Fresno.

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