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Eva luator Group

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Advanced EducationEva luator Ser ies™

Join us:

September 24-26, 2013

Renaissance Hotel500 Flatiron Blvd

Broomfield, CO 80021

For registration or moreinformation:

www.evaluatorgroup.comor

303.221.7867

*NEW* Full Day on Virtualization and Storage

Training Overview

What You’ll Learn:• Considerationsformakingstoragedecisionstodayandinthefuture• Strategiestoestablishrequirementsforstorageneeds• Gainin-depthknowledgeofstorageandvirtualization• InitiativesinITforoptimizingtheDataCenter• IndustrytrendssuchasBigDataAnalytics,ObjectandSolidState

Storage

Who Should Attend:Individualsinvolvedinmakingstoragesystemsandstrategydecisions,andanyoneseekinganin-depthandhighlyapplicableunderstandingoftoday’sEnterpriseStorage.

Training Environment:• Livelyinteractionwithinstructorsandpeersinagroupsetting• Unbiasedobjectiveinsightfromindustryleadingexperts• Participateindetaileddiscussionsofstoragearchitectures,including

networking,virtualization,datamanagement,andCloudComputing• GainaccesstoEvaluatorGroup’suniquetoolsandin-depthknowledge

ofstoragetechnology

Optimizing Storage Environments: Technologies and Systems

Instructors

Leah Schoeb

Randy Kerns

Russ Fellows

5360 manhattan circle • ste 100 • boulder, co 80303

[ph] 303.221.7867 www.evaluatorgroup.com

Evaluator Series™ Advanced Storage Education - Optimizing Storge Environments: Technologies and Systems

Day 1: Developing the Strategy and Understanding the TechnologiesOn this first day, students will develop the skills to architect and manage the development of a storage strategy. The second half covers new technologies that are transforming and optimizing storage.

What is a Storage Strategy?

Why it is important

What are the elements

Initiatives to Optimize the Data Center

Trends and Challenges in IT

Business Drivers

Economics in IT

Efficiency - Optimizing Resources & Delivery of IT Services

Technologies for the Solutions - What are they, how they work and what to leverage

Block vs File vs Object Storage

Storage Pooling & Thin Provisioning

Mainframe Vs. Open Systems Storage

Networking Technologies

Solid State Technology

Tiering of Storage

Data Reduction Technologies

Data Availability Strategies - Protection, Replication, Forward Error Correction

Archiving

Impact of Virtualization on Storage

Server Virtualization

VMware Integration

VDI

Storge Virtualizatoin

Cloud and IT as a Service

Big Data Analytics & Storage

Day 2: VirtualizationAfter the second day, students will have a thorough understanding of what Virtualization is, the economics of utilizing Virtualization technologies, the various architectures available, and what they can expect the interface layer to look like. VMware vSphere Basics

Hyper-V Basics

Virtualization layer architecture

ESXi layout

Virtual Datacenter Architecture

Distributed Services

Virtual Machine architecture

vCPU

Memory Management Hierarchy

Network architecture

Storage Architecture

Life of an IO

Management architecture

Interface Layer

5360 manhattan circle • ste 100 • boulder, co 80303

[ph] 303.221.7867 www.evaluatorgroup.com

Evaluator Series™ Advanced Storage Education - Optimizing Storge Environments: Technologies and Systems

Day 3: Deep Dive Into the Products and Their CapabilitiesThis day reviews the top vendor products and capabilities. Students will gain a strong grasp, not only on their needs, but also which solutions will address their strategy.

Block - Based Storage

Product Descriptions

Advanced features and abilities

Strengths and Potential Concerns

Storage Virtualization Products

Product Descriptions

Advanced Features

Strengths and Potential Concerns

File - Based Storage

Product Descriptions

Advanced Features

Strengths and Potential Concerns

Storage Management and Performance

Goals

Management Elements

SRM - Products

Solid State Storage Systems

Product Descriptions

Strengths and Poetntial Concerns

Object Storage Systems

Product Descriptions

Strengths & Potential Concerns

Products to be Covered (subject to change)High End Block Mid Range Block NAS

EMC VMAX

HP 3PAR StoreServ

Hitachi VSP

IBM DS8000

IBM XIV

NetApp FAS 6000

Data Direct Networks

Dell Compellent

Dell EqualLogic

EMC VNX

Hitachi HUS, HUSVM

HP StoreVirtual LeftHand

IBM V7000

IBM DS3500/DCS3700

NetApp FAS 3000

HDS - HNAS BlueArc

Dell FS7600/FS8600

EMC Isilon

EMC VNX

IBM Sonas/V7000U

NetApp

Microsoft WSS-Based

ZFS-Based

SAN Virtualization Solid State Storage Object Storage

DataCore

SanSymphony

EMC VPLEX

EMC VMAX

HDS VSP

IBM SVS / V7000

NetApp V-Series

Astute Networks

IBM Flash System

PureStorage

Fusion IO (NexGen)

Nimble

Nimbus

Tegile

Tintri

Violin

Whiptail

Amplidata

Cleversafe

DDN WOS

EMC Atmos and Centera

HDS HCP

HP StoreAll