In recent years, the prevailing user view of failure tolerant storage has progressed from "seldom-deployed high-cost extra" to "necessity for important data in mission-critical applications," and seems to be headed for "default option for data center storage." During the same period, the storage industry had declared independence from the computer system industry, resulting in a wider range of online storage alternatives for users.
Today, system administrators and managers who buy and configure online storage need to understand the implications of the choices in this complex environment. Awareness of how storage virtualization and networked storage work, how they interact and what they can and cannot do is a prerequisite for making informed decisions about online storage alternatives.
Similarly, application developers and managers must concern themselves with the quality of online storage services provided by their data centers. Understanding storage technology can help these users negotiate with their data centers to obtain the right cost, availability and performance alternatives for each application.
Finally, a solid, comprehensive disaster recovery strategy is a requirement for every organization. The magnitude of the business and cost implications mean that IT must work closely with the rest of the enterprise to build a plan that can be designed, implemented and operated successfully.
This course, in four parts, will help audiences understand the storage market today, so that they can learn how to do more with the resources they have while meeting the rapidly growing requirements of their organizations.
Class One: Cost Control Through Storage Virtualization
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A. What is Storage Virtualization
B. Flexibility and intelligent provisioning
C. Consolidation and cost control
Class Two: Networked Storage Solutions
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Main topics include:
A. What is networked storage?
B. Benefits of storage consolidation
C. Security considerations
D. Business reasons to network storage
Class Three: High Availability
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Main topics include:
A. What is High Availability and why is it important
B. Server clustering and application failover
C. Extending availability beyond a single data center
Class Four: Disaster Recovery Solutions
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Main topics include:
A. Evaluating your data loss and data availability requirements
B. Meeting your disaster recovery requirements with the appropriate disaster recovery solution
Welcome To Storage 101
