You Are Invited... Synegi's Spring 2005 Business Continuance Workshop: Disk-to-Disk Backup, High Availability & DR Strategies! Thursday, May 26, 2005 · Disk-to-Disk Backup Strategies: In 1956, IBM management asked engineers at their San Jose Research Lab if they were backing up data on the RAMAC to tape. A half century later, backup is still being performed by connecting to a tape backup device. Data stores are no longer measured in kilobytes, however, and long backup windows and restore times - assuming data is still there to be restored - have made tape backup the chief bottleneck in the IT environment. The time has come for new approaches to data retention that meet the needs of today’s vastly expanded storage requirements. Backing up to disk is one option, and a new generation of disk drive and interface technologies - offering expanded capacity, faster throughput, higher reliability, and lower cost - is propelling that approach forward. · High Availability & Replication: A recent survey by the META Group found that over 70% of business people believe that being without email is more of a problem than being without a phone. In another survey. it was found that over 90% of companies that experienced a major loss of data were out of business within five years. Email and data base applications clearly fall into the category of mission critical, and anything that denies 100% uptime can be catastrophically disruptive. But maintaining these systems in a state of high availability has been both expensive and complex. Until now. Today, mature tools that provide replication and failover for Exchange and SQL platforms enable smaller organizations to achieve the same high degree of uptime that large enterprises enjoy – at a fraction of the cost. Synegi has assembled a distinguished panel of technology leaders to discuss these new backup, recovery and replication ideas. You are invited to join them – and Synegi’s own engineering team - for a timely and lively discussion of these important issues. Attendance at the workshop is free, and there will be a drawing for an iPod. Following the formal session at 12:00 noon, sandwiches will be served and a realtime failover/failback of an Exchange Server will be demonstrated. Integrating Disk into Backup 8:00 Registration and Breakfast 8:25 Introduction 8:30 Next Generation Data Protection: - Shrinking backup windows - Shorter restore times - Improved restore reliability - Disk-to-Disk remote replication 9:30 D2D Technology Roadmap Protecting Mission Critical Applications 9:45 Discussion & Coffee 10:00 Introduction 10:15 HA/DR: Examining the Tradeoffs - HA for  Exchange, SQL & File Server - Dynamic failover & recovery - Combining HA, backup & DR - Bandwidth, latency, compression & cost 11:30 Putting It All Together/Q&A 12:00 Formal Adjournment Register NOW