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NAS
Virtualization – The End of NAS Islands
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NAS storage systems have seen tremendous growth over
the past few years, growing from simple workgroup solutions to
mainstays in the enterprise with performance and capacity that
addresses the needs of many applications. Their boon has been
simplicity, but their bane has been the complexity of management
when multiple independent NAS file servers are required for desired
capacity or performance requirements. Many companies are attempting
to solve the management challenges of multiple independent NAS file
servers. This presentation will look at the pros and cons of the
most prevalent of these architectures and include a discussion on
select implementations from several vendors. |
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Mike Kazar
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Approx. 593 kB; Navigation and search bookmarks in .pdf file are not
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Fabric Attached
Storage: Convergence of NAS and SAN
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The infrastructure of storage technology is rapidly
changing, as the industry migrates toward NAS/SAN convergence and
offers additional storage services, such as remote administration
and mirroring and clustering technology. This session will address
how major industry players are collaborating to develop open
standards protocols through consortiums such as Direct Access File
System and Open Storage Networking, and will discuss how these
collaborations will help customers to simplify, share, and scale
their networking storage infrastructure, while at the same time
doubling the performance of their business applications. |
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Keith Brown
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Approx. 616 kB; Navigation and search bookmarks in .pdf file are not
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iSCSI – What’s
Real, What’s Not?
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During this session, a panel of the industry’s
leading vendors and end-users of iSCSI-based IP SAN connectivity and
management will address the iSCSI 1.0 protocol as well as how the
standard solves customers’ storage and networking requirements today
and provides a foundation for the future. The panel will discuss
current IP SAN technology and its benefits and shortcomings, and
will specifically address the types of applications and enterprises
for which iSCSIbased technologies are best suited.
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Steve Duplessie
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Panelists: Kevin Daly, Dave Malerba, Kevin Liebl,
Chris Glidden |
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Approx. 46 kB; Navigation and search bookmarks in .pdf file are not
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Storage
Strategies for Disaster Recovery
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Companies need to effectively develop and implement
disaster recovery plans by using a range of storage options to
assure that their data are secure and easily retrievable.
Determining the best solution or combination of solutions is
critical to protecting, backing up and archiving critical business
information. This session will cover the range of storage solutions
– from NAS/SAN to automated tape to virtual disk – and how each can
play an important role in securing data. In addition, it will
address how storage software can benefit other IT projects such as
server consolidation and can maximize efficiency while reducing
costs. |
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Jeff Drew |
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Note: Large file - Approx.
130 kB; Navigation and search bookmarks in .pdf file are not
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From Pockets to
Packets: Electronic Transfer of Data for Protection and Archiving
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The communications and storage elements of the data
industry have developed independently of one another over the past
several decades. This is particularly true in the case of secondary
storage using removable media (typically magnetic tape or optical
disk). As storage technologies continue to evolve, however, fixed
magnetic disks (which have significant performance and manageability
advantages over removable media) are becoming economically
competitive with removable media for many secondary storage
applications, particularly for data protection and archiving. This
presentation will address the implications of the use of fixed disk
technology for data protection on data communication
infrastructures. |
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Kevin Daly
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Note: Large file - Approx.
688 kB; Navigation and search bookmarks in .pdf file are not
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