Next Generation Storage Networking - New York City
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM (ET)
Next Generation Storage Networking
Beyond Conventional SAN and NAS
Duration: 3 hours, not including 30-minute break
Intended Audience: System administrators running day-to-day operations as well as systems architects and IT managers. This tutorial is technical in nature, but it does not address command-line syntax or the operation of specific products or technologies. Rather, the focus is on general architectures and various approaches to scaling in both performance and capacity. Since storage networking technologies tend to be costly, there is some discussion of the relative cost of different technologies and of strategies for managing cost and achieving results on a limited budget.
Overview: There has been tremendous innovation in the data storage industry over the past few years. Proprietary, monolithic SAN and NAS solutions are beginning to give way to open-system solutions and distributed architectures. Traditional storage interfaces such as parallel SCSI and Fibre Channel are being challenged by iSCSI (SCSI over TCP/IP), SATA (serial ATA), SAS (serial attached SCSI), and even Infiniband. New filesystem designs and alternatives to NFS and CIFS are enabling high-performance filesharing measured in gigabytes (yes, "bytes," not "bits") per second. New spindle management techniques are enabling higher-performance and lower-cost disk storage. Meanwhile, a whole new set of efficiency technologies are allowing storage protocols to flow over the WAN with unprecedented performance. This tutorial is a survey of the latest storage networking technologies, with commentary on where and when these technologies are most suitably deployed.
Topics include:
- Fundamentals of storage virtualization: the storage I/O path
- Shortcomings of conventional SAN and NAS architectures
- In-band and out-of-band virtualization architectures
- The latest storage interfaces: SATA (serial ATA), SAS (serial attached SCSI), 4Gb Fibre Channel, Infiniband, iSCSI
- Content-Addressable Storage (CAS)
- Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) and Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
- The convergence of SAN and NAS
- High-performance file sharing
- Parallel file systems
- SAN-enabled file systems
- Wide-area file systems (WAFS)
About the Presenter: Our presenter is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. His no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. He is a regular lecturer at many of the nation’s leading colleges and universities. Inside the data storage industry, he is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Most recently, he was voted "Best Speaker" at Storage Networking World
Questions: Please feel free to contact Megan at 781-250-3240.
Agenda:
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
8:30 am: Doors open / Sign in Begins
9:00 am: Lecture begins: Next Generation Storage Networking
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Complimentary Lunch, Lecture Wrap up and Q&A
Cambridge Computer
Cambridge Computer Services Inc.
The event is brought to you by the education division of Cambridge Computer. Since 1991, we have provided consulting, training, and integration services related to storage networking, archiving, and data protection.
So, why Cambridge Computer Services?
Cambridge Computer has been providing technology education to the data storage industry for over 15 years. We are famous for vendor-neutral technology education and for our ability to help people compare and contrast their technology choices.
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