Hifn CTO To Address Cal State University IT Staffs On Data Protection And Disaster Recovery Strategies
Russell Dietz, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Hifn' the catalyst behind storage and networking innovation, will address some of the top IT officials from within the California State University system on data protection and disaster recovery strategies at the next meeting of the CSU Systems Technology Alliance in San Francisco on the morning of April 30 at the San Francisco State University downtown campus.
Dietz will examine protection and disaster recovery strategies and explain how Hifn technology plays a role in implementing these strategies, including primary and secondary storage strategies with automated backup for bullet-proof disaster recovery.
Dietz's presentation will include many of the advanced data protection and disaster recovery technologies designed into Hifn's encrypted IP SAN appliances, such as high-availability mirrored storage for true active/active system failover, RAID 6 and 61, secure remote replication, NAS and iSCSI support, snapshot backup/restore, integrated D2D and tape for automatic backup. Dietz will also discuss the role of Continuous Data Protection with the implementation of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 in an overall disaster recovery strategy. This new technology is changing the secondary backup and disaster recovery strategies by doing away with the concept of the backup window and virtually eliminating data loss incidents because of failed backup operations.
The CSU Systems Technology Alliance is composed of IT officials from each of the 23 CSU campuses, who advise the schools' CIOs on methods to improve collaboration and share information throughout the CSU system. With almost 450,000 students and 46,000 faculty and staff, California State University is the largest, the most diverse, and one of the most affordable university systems in the country.
About Hifn
Hifn delivers the key channel and OEM ingredients for 21st century storage and networking environments. Leveraging over a decade of leadership and expertise in the development of purpose-built Applied Services Processors (ASPs), we are a trusted partner to industry leaders for whom infrastructure innovation in storage and networking is critical to success. With the majority of secure networked communications flowing through Hifn technology, the 21st century convergence of storage and networking drives our product roadmap forward. For more information, please visit: www.hifn.com.
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