The USENIX Association is pleased to announce a free technical class entitled Next Generation Storage Networking on January 22th, 2009 held in Manchester, NH at Southern New Hampshire University. The class is offered free of charge to qualified IT professionals and members of the academic community.
Starting in 2007, the USENIX Association began bringing some of its most popular educational sessions on the road as a way of giving back to the universities who have supported USENIX over the years and as a way of introducing ourselves to those who are not familiar with the organization. It is our sincere hope that attendees will be excited by the quality of our education and be motivated to participate in USENIX events in the future.
IT Managers, System administrators running day-to-day operations and those who set or enforce budgets should attend this lecture. This tutorial is technical in nature, but it does not address command-line syntax or the operation of specific products or technologies. Rather, the focus is on general architectures and various approaches to scaling in both performance and capacity. Since storage networking technologies tend to be costly, there is some discussion of the relative cost of different technologies and of strategies for managing cost and achieving results on a limited budget. There has been tremendous innovation in the data storage industry over the past few years. 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 filesystem designs and alternatives to NFS and CIFS are enabling high-performance filesharing measured in gigabytes (yes, "bytes," not "bits") per second. New spindle management techniques are enabling higher-performance and lower-cost disk storage. Meanwhile, a whole new set 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.
Topics include:
- 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)
- 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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Location: | Next Generation Storage Networking
January 22th, 2009
8:30am - Registration
9:00pm - Lecture begins
12:00pm - 1:00pm lecture wrap-up, Q&A
Southern New Hampshire University Robert Frost Building Walker Auditorium, Room 104 2500 North River Road Manchester, NH 03106 |
How to Register: http://snhulecture1.eventbrite.com
About the lecturer: Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. Jacob’s no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation’s leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale. Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University.
About USENIX – This class is being offered as part of a program called USENIX Education on the Road. The USENIX Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the exchange of knowledge by bringing together a community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world. USENIX supports its members’ professional and technical development through a variety of ongoing activities.