Storage Management for the Cloud

23 March 2011

This presentation discusses:
- Cloud motivation
- Cloud computing overview
- Consolidation and cloud computing
- The management challenge
- Data management
- Storage management

LAN and SAN Consolidation For Cloud Readiness

23 March 2011

This presentation discusses:
- Private Clouds - Managing the journey to the private Cloud
- LAN/SAN Network Consolidation - Datacenter Bridging / FCoE
- Data Center Architecture - Consolidation, Virtualization & Automation

Enabling Easier Cloud Solutions Deployment

23 March 2011

Topics discussed in this presentation:
- Looking at the Clouds
- Cloud Industry Challenges
- SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative

Contemporary Data Protection

19 May 2010

Many disk technologies both old and new are being used to augment tried and true backup and data protection methodologies to deliver better information and application restoration performance. These technologies work in parallel with the existing backup paradigm.

This session will discuss many of these technologies in detail. Important considerations of data protection include performance, scale, regulatory compliance, recovery objectives and cost. Technologies include contemporary backup, disk based backups, snapshots, continuous data protection and capacity optimized storage.

The Benefits of Solid State Storage in Enterprise Storage Systems

25 March 2010

This presentation examines the developments of Solid State Storage in a business context, examining the economic benefits and considerations and an in-depth survey of the various Solid States Storage designs on offer in relation to the enterprise storage environment.

Ethernet Storage: Benefits & Futures

23 February 2010

This presentation presents an overview of Ethernet-based storage networking technologies and solutions. It examines the relevant storage protocols, features and benefits of storage systems using those protocols, and where they are deployed in a typical IT environment today.

The presentation goes on to examine the latest developments in Ethernet standards, and storage protocols, including Data Center Bridging, FCoE and pNFS, and how they may change the storage landscape over the next few years.

Fibre Channel Technologies: Benefits & Futures

23 February 2010

This session outlines the benefits of Fibre Channel as a storage protocol and will elaborate on features and functions that have been added to allow a better consolidation and integration in the Data Center like Fibre Channel routing and virtual fabrics.

It will describe the technology evolution of Fibre Channel in term of speed but also the latest development from a transport point of view with Fibre Channel over Ethernet.

It will point out the benefits of I/O consolidation and how Unified Fabric will allow LAN and SAN traffic over the same adapter and the same cable hence saving power, cooling and simplify the Data Center management.

Storage Considerations in Virtual Environments

23 February 2010

Many disk technologies both old and new are being used to augment tried and true backup and data protection methodologies to deliver better information and application restoration performance. These technologies work in parallel with the existing backup paradigm.

This session will discuss many of these technologies in detail. Important considerations of data protection include performance, scale, regulatory compliance, recovery objectives and cost. Technologies include contemporary backup, disk based backups, snapshots, continuous data protection and capacity optimized storage.

Data Centre Storage Trends 2012

28 March 2012

What are the driving forces in data management and data protection that require changes in today's storage landscapes. Which technologies can help?

This presentation covers some key drivers and technologies that should be on the radar screen for future planning.

The Impacts of SSD in Your Storage System

28 March 2012

Targeted primarily at an IT audience, this session presents a brief overview of the solid state technologies which are being integrated into Enterprise Storage Systems today, including technologies, benefits, and price/performance.

It then goes on to describe where they fit into typical Enterprise Storage architectures today, with descriptions of specific use cases.

Finally the presentation speculates briefly on what the future will bring.