A popular program offered at SNW, the Hands-On Labs provide attendees who are seeking training and experiences one-on-one contact with participating vendors offering the latest in innovative storage technology strategies and solutions. Seven multi-vendor Hands-On Labs are offered at SNW Fall 2011. The classes take place for two hours at regular intervals throughout the conference and are limited to 16-20 seats* to give attendees a rich learning experience.
* Once you are registered for the conference, you will receive follow-up details on how to sign up for specific Hands-on-Lab sessions at SNW.
CLASS TOPICS INCLUDE:
Cloud Storage
Participating companies: Amplidata, Asigra, Rackspace, Symantec
As IT environments become more complex, data levels grow, and costs increase, many organizations are examining the applicability of cloud storage solutions. This Lab guides participants through exercises that illustrate actual services provided "in the cloud" from service providers, including backup and restore, creating petabyte scale storage systems with redundancy, use of a fully managed disaster recovery service, and online file storage. Upon completion, you will better understand how cloud storage services can be utilized in your organization.
Advanced Data Protection and Reduction
Participating companies: IBM, NEC
With today’s pressure on organizations' storage infrastructure, data protection solutions provide ways to safeguard key data while reducing the physical disk footprint and transmit bandwidth required. This lab guides participants through exercises that illustrate how organizations store and protect data using technologies like real time compression, data reduction, and data deduplication. Upon completion, you will better understand the benefits these technologies can offer.
Solid State Storage in the Enterprise
Participating companies: HP, Intel, Oracle
Discover where and how Solid State Storage (SSS) can be applied and what the benefits can be in this Hands-On Lab. Exercises will guide participants through applications of Solid State Storage within storage arrays and at the host level to understand characteristics, including performance. You will also employ the SNIA SSSI TCO Calculator for Enterprise SSS to observe the hard disk drive/solid state drive total cost of ownership. Upon completion, you will better understand how to deploy Solid State Storage technology in your organization.
Storage Implications for Server Virtualization
Participating companies: Dell, IBM, Symantec, Virtual Instruments
As the use of virtualization within IT organizations spreads into more business-critical applications, there is heightened interest in virtualization and its impact on SANs and storage. This Lab guides participants through exercises that illustrate SAN and storage implications in establishing, maintaining, and optimizing a virtualized environment. Upon completion, you will better understand server virtualization activities, including creating virtual machines, deploying VMs on storage, and provisioning volumes; and their effects on SANs and storage. You will learn how to measure and optimize the performance, availability, and utilization of your SANs and virtualized infrastructure.
Storage Virtualization
Participating companies: HP, IBM
With ever more focus on ROI and TCO, there is heightened interest in storage virtualization. This Lab guides participants through the steps required to establish a virtualized storage environment. You will learn about basic provisioning, data migration, volume expansion, and data protection, and understand how to set up and take advantage of advanced virtualization features in a storage environment, including dynamic expansion and allocation of resources, replication, data migration, and data protection. Upon completion, you will have a good basic understanding of how to set up and configure a virtualized block storage environment with fault-tolerant protection.
Unified Storage – Infrastructure
Participating companies: Cisco, Intel, NetApp, QLogic
Migrating from a traditional SAN / LAN infrastructure to a converged datacenter is increasingly a topic of consideration for data center decision makers. This Lab provides a grounds-up approach to breaking the barriers for the converged datacenter of the future. Exercise topics include consolidating cabling, converging I/O communications, simplifying I/O and LAN communication management, and reducing data center sprawl. Upon completion, you will better understand the tools needed for design for the years to come. This Lab is a compliment to the Unified Storage – IP Solutions Hands-On Lab, and while one is not a prerequisite for the other, interested individuals may wish to register for both Labs.
Unified Storage – IP Solutions
Participating companies: HP, Oracle
In organizations of all sizes, Internet (IP) Storage Area Networks (SANs) are increasingly becoming the storage solution for business critical IT environments. In addition, the value of traffic convergence is quickening an investment in Unified Fabrics, an area in which IP SANs are relevant. This Lab discusses Unified Fabrics concepts and how they relate to the Unified Storage - Infrastructure Lab. Participants are guided through the steps required to setup and configure an IP based SAN. Upon completion, you will better understand IP based SAN technology within a traffic converged network and usage of IP Storage solutions. This Lab is a compliment to the Unified Storage – Infrastructure Hands-On Lab, and while one is not a prerequisite for the other, interested individuals may wish to register for both Labs.
