WEBCAST
Architecting Deduplication and Virtualization for Best of Breed Data Protection
Speaker: Brad Blake, Director, IT for Boston Medical Center This on-demand webcast is a presentation given by Mr. Blake at the 2008 Gartner Data Center Conference.
Boston Medical Center is a private, not-for-profit, 581-licensed bed, academic medical center. The IT department is responsible for protecting over 400 TB of data across 120 business-critical applications. Challenged by 40-50% annual data growth, increased disk storage costs, regulatory requirements and tape management issues, the organization chose to go tapeless for business continuity and DR. This session examines the efficiencies and synergies achieved through the combined deployment of server virtualization and data deduplication technologies.
Specifically, this session will cover: - Data protection challenges and legacy backup environment
- The important drivers for change and technology selection process
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Three year ROI analysis of technology approaches
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Implementation overview of Data Domain
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Results and metrics achieved to-date
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