Many of you have met Cheng Chuan from Tandberg Data in a previous CPD session.  Cheng Chuan is flying in again on 13 May 2008 to give the Compucon channel a special boost.  He has offered to do an overview of backup scheme for us.  Cheng Chuan has worked in the storage division of IBM and Computer Associates before joining Tandberg, and is well qualified to address issues and methodologies of server data backup.  We have heard of jargons like de-duplication, recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). We will find out exactly what they are.  Also, being a world class server data backup equipment vendor, Tandberg would have the solutions ready for us. Remember this: Tandberg has not offered the same to other parties in New Zealand- it is a unique opportunity for the Compucon channel members only.  Please make use of this advantage to boost our business capabilities and reply to this newsletter to register.  The outline of the seminar is as shown below.  Time is from 4:00pm to 5:30pm, followed by wine and cheese until 7:00pm.

• Backup General: Differences between redundancy (RAID, Clustering, Replication) and data backup; RTO and RPO
• Backup Technology: DAT, DLT, SDLT, AIT, LTO; HDD Based; Optical Disk based
• Backup Software: File Based, Image Based, Continuous Data Protection
• Backup Strategy: Local, LAN and SAN Backup; Disk to Disk to Tape
• Tape Rotation: Tape Rotation, Off Site, Encryption

Link to PDF presentation: 2008-0513 Backup101 Tandberg.pdf