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!