TRACK 3: ARCHITECTURE, "Tiered Storage"More than 70% of the attendees of Storage Decisions say they
are setting up or evaluating a tiered storage architecture.
Featured in this track will be the popular Tiered Storage School
sessions along with other sessions that can help any manager set up
or administer new architectures.Downloads included in this track: (click title to download
slides)
Tiered Storage
School 101
Speaker: Greg Forest, Contoural, Inc.
Description: This session covers the key to a successful
tiered storage strategy by helping you define the requirements of
your business data. Before you can design your new storage tiers,
you need to understand your application catalog and how your
business uses it. This requires looking beyond the traditional IT
metrics of recovery time objective and recovery point objective.
Focusing on a broader set of key business drivers will allow you to
use your storage tiers to offer the appropriate service levels to
your business units, while reducing overall costs. For more
information:View the
Tiered Storage School webcast series
Tiered Storage
School 201
Speakers: Greg Forest, Contoural, Inc.
Description: The second hour of Tiered Storage School
assists you in tiered storage design. This session covers
application classification, defining and executing a migration
plan, and establishing a framework for storage provisioning,
reporting and/or chargeback.
For more information:
Data management overview: Chapter 3 - Tiered storage
Philips Lighting
Illuminates Storage
Speaker: Erik Windischman, Philips Lighting
Description: Erik will walk attendees through the "real
life" tiered storage process Philips Lighting under took from
evaluation to implementation.
For more information:
Turner Broadcast chases audience with tiered storage
Understanding
File Management
Speaker: Brad O'Neill, Taneja Group
Description: With the proliferation of file data we have
seen an explosion in the number of ways IT teams can manage
unstructured content. In this session, Brad O'Neill explores the
types of file management technologies that make sense for
particular environments. Topics include: How and when to choose a
unified namespace solution, when and why to classify content and
options for integrating remote office file content into the
enterprise management framework. Brad will focus on helping
attendees develop a step-by-step evaluation process aiming to help
navigate an increasingly complex vendor landscape.
For more information:
Taming NAS sprawl and file management
Where iSCSI
Stands
Speaker: Brian Babineau, Enterprise Strategy Group
Description: This discussion with ESG's Brian Babineau
includes practical real world issues, early adopter experiences on
how iSCSI is being used today and plans going forward. Research
also focuses on the viewpoints of planned adopters and
non-adopters. Brian also discuss performance, reliability and other
aspects of iSCSI, as well as the future impact of this technology
and how it could change the storage landscape in major ways that
create a leap in efficiency.
For more information:
iSCSI, iFCP and FCIP: How do they stack up?
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