The Hands-On Lab Program at SNW continues to be a resounding success!
Look for another set of these popular education and training sessions at SNW (Storage Networking World) Spring 2012, April 2-5, at the Omni Dallas Hotel, Dallas TX.
The SNW Hands-On Labs deliver a unique experience designed to introduce exciting technologies and raise knowledge levels. IT Professional participants go “hands-on” with real- world exercises. Vendor participants can deliver one-on-one education and training in a collaborative setting.
IT Professionals - Participation in the Hands-on-Lab sessions is complimentary to all approved IT End-User registrants of SNW. For more information on registering for SNW Spring 2012, please visit http://www.SNWUSA.com.
Vendor participants - Particpation in the Hands-On lab is open to interested vendors in the topics listed below or other topics you suggest. For more information on participating in the Spring 2012 Hands-On Labs, contact Marty Foltyn at marty@bitsprings.com
Here is just a sample of the attendee comments from our most recent HOL activity in Orlando Florida:
“Just having access to the equipment and being able to play / learn on it with a expert close by is fantastic,” SAN Engineer, manufacturing company in the Unified Storage-IP Solutions Lab
“I loved the fact that the instructors spent one on one time with me,” Storage Architect, retail company in the Solid State in the Enterprise Lab
“I found it useful to get hands-on with systems I don't usually see,” Senior Designer, international manufacturing company in the Advanced Data Protection and Reduction Lab
“Gained an overall understanding of the process as we are planning on moving in this direction,” Network Administrator, state government, in the Storage Implications for Server Virtualization Lab
For Spring 2012, the Hands-On Lab program will feature the return of popular technology labs and the introduction of new technology labs: Lab descriptions below are from the 2011 program. Stay tuned for a list of the Spring 2012 labs to be published in early 2012.
Cloud Storage
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 a petabytescale storage system with redundancy, use of a fully managed disaster recovery service, and online file storage.
Advanced Data Protection and Reduction
This lab focuses on exercises that illustrate how organizations store data - first for backup and disaster recovery, and now across the entire storage ecosystem, using technologies like data deduplication.
Enterprise Content Management
Unstructured data, the files, presentations, e-mails, instant messaging logs, audio, and video files that are utilized every day make up 80% or more of the digital universe that is doubling every 18 months. Taking control and understanding the unstructured data in an IT environment via an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution not only provides a ROI via storage optimization it also supports more achievablecontent management and data protection strategies as well as lower costs associated with litigation. This Lab guides participants through the aspects of configuring ECM solutions including physical and cloud archive, migration, and discovery, and applying the associated storage policies that determine how content is managed as well as being deleted or put on legal hold. Upon completion, participants will learn about the benefits of an ECM storage solution including how to fully utilize multi-tiered storage infrastructures
Solid State Storage in the Enterprise
Discover where and how solid state storage (SSS) can be applied and what the benefits can be in this Hands-On Lab. Exercises guide participants through applications of SSS within storage arrays and at the host level to understand characteristics, including performance. Participants will also employ the SNIA SSSI TCO Calculator for Enterprise SSS to observe the hard disk drive/solid state drive total cost of ownership.
Managing Storage and Data Resources
This Lab guides students through the steps required to discover and manage storage and data resources.
Storage Implications for Server Virtualization
As the use of virtualization within IT organizations spreads into more business-critical applications, there is heightened interest in virtualization and its impact on SAN s and storage. This Lab guides participants through exercises that illustrate SAN and storage implications in establishing, maintaining, and optimizing a virtualized environment. Upon completion, participants better understand server virtualization activities, including creating virtual machines, deploying VMs on storage, provisioning volumes, splitting and aggregating multiple fabrics, and these activities’ effects on SANs and storage. They learn how to backup, restore, and perform disaster recovery on virtualized servers, and learn how to measure and optimize the performance, availability, and utilization of your SANs and virtualized infrastructure.
Storage Virtualization
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. Upon completion, they have a good basic understanding of how to set up and configure a virtualized block storage environment with fault-tolerant protection. Participants will learn about basic provisioning, data migration, volume expansion, and data protection. They will also 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.
Unified Storage - Infrastructure
Migrating from a traditional SAN / LAN infrastructure to a converged datacenter is increasingly a topic of consideration for data center decision makers. This Instructor-Guided 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.
Unified Storage - IP Solutions
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.
Contact hol@snia.org for more information on our Hands-on-Lab program.
