Data Domain (DD), acquired by EMC in 2009, is one of the most innovative Silicon Valley companies, and has created the deduplication disk based backup appliance market. With its inline deduplication file system, unique data invulnerability/integrity architecture, and very efficient WAN replication technologies, DD has been the leader in the backup and recovery appliance market. In this talk, Dr. Kadir Ozdemir, Chief Architect, will introduce DD, the backup and recovery uses cases, DD products and technologies, and the challenging problems keeping DD engineers busy inventing.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Kadir Ozdemir is Chief Architect for Data Domain products at EMC. Prior to joining EMC, he was Chief Architect for Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products at Symantec. His storage industry experience covers deduplication file systems, highly available clustered file and block storage systems, and replication, snapshot and RAID technologies. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Ottawa, Canada.