17 June 2011
On May 23 - 26, the SMI-Lab held its third plugfest of 2011 at the SNIA Technology Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
4 April 2011
This tutorial defines the must-have criteria that should be included in any data storage RFP in the current era. Performance, scalability, and resiliency are given; but new challenges will arise around power consumption, space requirements, and overall cost containment. In addition, accommodations for developing technologies such as server virtualization and Green IT must be designed into the RFP.
4 April 2011
Data Center Storage ... Spend Less, Deliver More
- Will be of value to Data Center Managers, CIOs.
- Bridges the Business side of Data Center Storage with the Technology side of Data Center Storage.
- Not a technology deep dive. Not a promo for specific products or technologies.
- Spend less. Deliver more.
4 April 2011
This presentation gives the reader/attendee an overview of the current landscape of difficulties when implementing a storage management infrastructure as well as real-life ideas and options how to solve them. This presentation handles planning, design and implementation of various physical options on networks as well as day-to-day management tasks keeping the storage infrastructure in optimum health.
4 April 2011
This session outlines SAS as a shared storage alternative, a subject of interest to IT Professionals and System Integrators. This tutorial explores sharing storage amongst servers by using switching technology at the SAS level. This tutorial provides a technology review of Switched SAS, applications driving storage closer to the server, and how to reduce infrastructure while improving performance and operating expense.