Data Storage Management Survival School: Table of contents
Data is growing out of control. Your hardware and software
from six different vendors don't work nicely together and you have
just been asked to cut staff. Sound familiar?
Storage managers aren't only having a hard time corralling
data, but even knowing what systems are on their floors and what
systems are managing what is still a mystery to many. Where to put
data, how to move data and who should have their hands on data are
other major issues still being sorted out by managers
everywhere.
Data Storage Management Survival School is dedicated to exposing
you to all of the aspects of managing storage and how to optimise
your environments so the pains described above can be
minimised.
If this is the first time you are asking yourself, "How am I
ever going to manage all this data?" -- Data Storage Management
Survival School is for you. If you are implementing your first
storage management software suite or SRM tool -- Data Storage
Management Survival School is for you. If you need to know the
benefits of tiered storage, automation or how to create policies
and procedures that can maximise your systems -- Data Storage
Management Survival School is for you.
In each of these 15-minute lessons, management experts will walk
you through starting a storage management plan, operational best
practices and setting up a storage management group. Data Storage
Management Survival School is in session -- enjoy!
Lesson 1: Data storage planning: Where on earth do I
begin?
Determining ROI for storage management can be a challenge given the
varying types of metrics used. In this session, analyst Jamie
Gruener looks at how to begin your own ROI analysis of storage
management tools, including the metrics you need to consider, how
to measure them, and how to use the results to your benefit. This
session should be relevant to anyone considering purchases of
storage management tools in the next 12 months, as well as those
considering chargeback, cost sharing and other billing tactics when
dealing with business units on the storage budget.
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Lesson one right now.
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class
Lesson 2: Best practices: Data storage management
operations
Are poor day-to-day operations stymieing your storage network? In
this 15-minute lesson Greg Schulz, Senior Analyst of the Evaluator
Group, looks at the real nuts and bolts of daily storage
management. Learn the best practices, processes and tools necessary
to maximise the efforts of your systems and staff in lesson two of
"Data Storage Management Survival School."
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Lesson two right now.
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class
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Quiz
Lesson 3: Managing growth: How to stop the
bleeding
This lesson aims to provide tips on how to plan for and manage
exponential growth. This lesson will look at automation, policy and
procedure, meeting/creating SLAs.
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Lesson three right now.
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class
Lesson 4: Taming the e-mail beast
E-mail is one of the biggest problems most storage admins are
facing. Research firm IDC estimates corporate e-mail volumes have
increased 29% annually, from 9.7 billion per day in 2000 to 16.2
billion in 2002 and 20.9 billion daily messages in 2003.
Projections have 7.6 trillion e-mails hitting inboxes this year.
How do you cope and manage this growth?
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Lesson four right now.
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class
Lesson 5: Tiered storage, the next wave
The concept of tiered storage is to re-engineer how storage is
deployed and managed in easily classified tiers that have different
characteristics to meet varying application and line of business
needs. Sounds good, but it can be harder than one might expect. In
this lesson, Jamie Gruener examines the steps you should consider
in designing a tiered storage model.
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Lesson five right now.
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Lesson 6: Services architecture, a new approach to an old
concept
Quality-of-service is an enterprise networking concept that is
starting to take hold in larger enterprise storage groups. In
lesson six, analyst Jamie Gruener talks about where to start when
looking at turning your storage operations into services. This will
include what to consider when designing the service architecture,
which storage operations are ripe to be "service-ised" and what you
can do with a services approach to improve your group's (and your)
standing in the organisation.
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Lesson six right now.
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Lesson 7: Building a storage group
Systems are only as good as the people running them. This lesson is
devoted to making sure you have the people in place to maximise
your HW/SW investments.
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Lesson seven right now.
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