Michael Fahey

Encryption and security are very popular topics in the storage industrytoday and there are many solutions available for different security threats.Security practices should be based upon a realistic threat assessment andthe level of confidentiality required. Overly complex security approachescan be as dangerous as not employing security at all. This session willfocus on encryption for data at rest with several storage architectures andexplain various alternatives for key management.

Single Instance Storage (duplicate elimination) has become a very popular topic in the industry because of the potentially large reduction in cost and increase in efficiency it offers. Various technologies are being promoted for different tasks including backup, archiving, and transactional storage. Each of these storage uses represents a unique set of challenges and the single instancing technology being implemented has major implications for scale, performance, and functionality. Single Instance Storage also has long term legal and compliance implications for records management.