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TL-300: Next
Generation Storage Networking: Beyond Conventional SAN and NAS
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The USENIX Association is pleased to invite you to a
free technical class entitled Next Generation Storage
Networking on January 22, 2009 held at Southern New Hampshire
University in Manchester NH. The class is offered free of
charge to qualified IT professionals and members of the
academic community. |
Abstract
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. |
| 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: 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. |
| Date: |
Thursday, January 22,
2009 |
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| Time: |
Sign in: 8:30
am
Lecture: 9:00 am -12:00 pm
Q&A: 12:00
pm-1 :00 pm
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| Location: |
Southern New Hampshire University
Robert
Frost Building
Walker Auditorium, Room 104
2500 North
River Road
Manchester, NH
03106
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| Register: |
http://snhulecture1.eventbrite.com
781.250.3039 |
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www.CambridgeComputer.com | |
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