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RMWTUG June 2008 Meetings

RMWTUG June 2008 meeting time and locations:

• Denver, Tuesday June 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m. (networking begins at 6:30 p.m.)
  Address: Sprint, 10002 Park Meadows Drive, Lone Tree
  
  
• Colorado Springs, Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 7:00 p.m. (networking begins at 6:30 p.m.)
  Address: Verizon, 2424 Garden of the Gods Road, Colorado Springs

RMWTUG June 2008 meeting topics and agenda

• Archiving Data – Economics and Regulatory Compliance
• 15 Minutes of Fame - Tom West: Looking at an Application's I/O Behavior
• 15 Minutes of Fame - Dennis Martin: Comparing the speed of network file copy with different Windows versions
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Topic 1: Archiving Data – Economics and Regulatory Compliance, Randy Kerns, ProStor

While archiving data has been a practice in Information Technology since the early days of recording media, what constitutes archiving has become an area where there are many definitions. The ongoing capacity demands and the operational cost issues have led to a new focus on archiving of data. New technologies and new systems have been deployed that provide new opportunities for archiving and allow for more archiving discipline.

The economics of archiving touch many different areas:

• Capital expenditures for primary storage capacity can be altered with an archiving strategy that integrates with the operational environment. Not only the gains from the initial move of data eligible for archive off primary storage but the change in the acquisition of capacity profile due to the ongoing archiving can continue to reduce capital expenditures.
• Operational costs can change due to not having the data consuming space, consuming energy, generating heat, and requiring administration for online data. Data protection for archived data is a singular occurrence rather than a continuous protection process.
• Moving data to a protected archive means taking it out of a normal backup process. This can change the dynamics for backing up data and has the opportunity to reclaim time that might have been spent needlessly handling backup.

In the current climate of litigation and protection, archiving of data carries along and heightens the need to handle some percentage of data according to regulatory compliance rules. The compliance requirements are in addition to providing capabilities regarding legal discovery which applies to any type of business. Archiving of data, to be effectively implemented, requires the integration of handling of different regulatory requirement and discovery demands.

This talk will also introduce the ProStor InfiniVault which is a Data Preservation system that will protect information on network removable storage using RDX removable disks and meet regulatory compliance demands.

Topic 2: 15 Minutes of Fame – Tom West

Tom West will be giving us a 15-minute presentation: "Looking at an Application's I/O Behavior" (observing the I/O operation profile of a particular application).

Topic 3: 15 Minutes of Fame – Dennis Martin

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 have an improved SMB 2.0. Dennis will compare the results of the speed of network file copy operations between Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.