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TL-313: A Crash Course in Data Storage Security: Passing the Audit and Staying out of the News |
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TL-314: High Performance Data Storage: Pushing the Limits for Demanding Applications |
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TL-315: Data Protection Topics for VMware: Server Virtualization and Simplified Disaster Recovery |
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| TL-300: Next
Generation Storage Networking: Beyond Conventional SAN and NAS |
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| Abstract |
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The storage
industry is experiencing a flurry of innovation. 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 file system designs and alternatives to NFS and CIFS are enabling
high performance file sharing measured in Gigabytes (capital B) per
second. New spindle management techniques are enabling higher performance
and lower cost disk storage. Meanwhile, a whole new class 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. The goal is to help students make sense out of all of the
new technologies and to identify which are relevant to their organizations. |
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| Topics
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- 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) and archivial file systems
- 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)
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| Intended
Audience |
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System
architects, storage administrators, and disaster-recovery planners
who are interested in cutting-edge storage technologies and/or whose
needs have not been satisfied by the product offerings of the leading
vendors.
Some familiarity with storage networking and/or SCSI and network file
systems would be useful. Students will leave with ideas for leveraging
existing hardware investments and for planning future migration strategies. |
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