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IA B40: NetBackup Customer Panel Spotlight: Real-World Advice and Experiences with NetBackup Rachel DinesSenior Analyst, Serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals – Forrester Research

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• 3-site replicated with AIR w/NBU 5220 Appliances

• 2.9 PB backed up across 3200 clients

• 9,500 daily backup/restore jobs• 99.994% job success rate • 16.1 PB of active backup images• Tape libraries as a long term

storage tier• Business Critical Support Premier

service• 3X primary data growth• RPO and RTO keep tightening

MassMutual Financial Group – Mike Moynihan

EnvironmentResponsibilities

• Sr. Technical Consultant• Platform

Hosting/Storage Engineering

• EMC, NetApp, and 13 years NBU experience

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• 2.8 PB of data backed up daily across 12 data centers• 28 Domains with 110 Media

servers• 25% annual data growth rate• Replacing 1.34PB of NDMP data

with Replication Director• Designing a Cisco + NetBackup

disk based data protection and retention system• Cost containment a challenge• Driving corporate policies to

limit backup data retention• Driving a distinction between

“backup” and “archive”

Cisco Systems Inc. – William Bloom CISA

EnvironmentResponsibilities

• IT Storage Design Engineer• Data Protection

• Design • Architecture • Implementation

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• 35 Mfg. and research facilities in 9 countries; 3 major hub sites

• 100TB backed up across 1,000 servers

• 20 - 30% data growth per year. • Microsoft Windows Servers,

Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Oracle, and Notes

• ~40 percent virtualized (VMW)• Each office has a NetBackup

with AIR back to Hub DR• Able to backup small offices

with limited bandwidth• No more offsite tape

“Global Chemical Company” – Scott Lewis

EnvironmentResponsibilities

• Manager, IT Data Mgmt.• Backup/Recovery• Messaging/Collaboration• Database Admin• E-Discovery

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• 200+ physical hosts; 700+ Virtual • 5 * 5220; 6 * 5020 NBU

Appliances• 360TB on disk + LTO5 tape

libraries and multiple VTL’s• Isilon NAS storage NetBackup for

direct NDMP backup• 200TB+ of backup with various

retentions and copies • Expected to add 100TB by end of

year• Standardizing on NetBackup,

remove as many other backup technologies as possible by year end.

IDEXX – Joe Donahue

EnvironmentResponsibilities

• Senior Storage Admin.• Member of a team that

ensures data integrity and availability• Providing infrastructure and

application support for NetBackup 7.5.5