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Writing Storage RFPs in 2011
John Webster
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The data storage industry has changed dramatically over the past few years. The traditional Request for Proposal (RFP) does not address these changes or the challenges faced by IT organizations. Therefore, a new way of defining storage requirements to leverage this evolving technology is needed. This tutorial defines the “must-have†criteria that should be included in any data storage RFP in the current era. Performance, scalability, and resiliency are given; but new challenges will arise around power consumption, space requirements, and overall cost containment. In addition, accommodations for developing technologies such as server virtualization and Green IT must be designed into the RFP. Attendees of this session will receive an RFP template designed specifically to take advantage of current storage and IT technologies.
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What are the most important buying criteria for storage in 2011
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How to structure an RFP that gets differentiated responses from vendors
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How to approach vendors via the RFP process in a way that gets results
Data Center Storage ... Spend Less, Deliver More
Hubbert Smith
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On the application of data center storage technologies to affordably solve business problems, to meet and exceed business requirements dependent on data center storage: Spend less, deliver more.
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We overspend on storage-related technology. Reveals where, and why, we overspend. Financial remedies of consolidated storage, managing aging data, storage tiering, service level agreements (SLAs) simplified, storage performance SLAs, uptime SLAs.
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SLA driven approaches to test, pilot and deploy data center storage improvements for financial improvement using tiering. Consolidation, power reduction, performance, solid state storage, failover, replication.
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Review Managed Hosting storage an alternative to in-house data center storage. Review SLAs for managed hosting, Vetting of managed hosting providers, risk management and project-focused approaches to successfully take advantage of Managed Hosting
Implementing Large Scale Storage Management Infrastructures
Erwin van Londen
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This presentation gives the reader/attendee an overview of the current landscape of difficulties when implementing a storage management infrastructure as well as real-life ideas and options how to solve them. This presentation handles planning, design and implementation of various physical options on networks as well as day-to-day management tasks keeping the storage infrastructure in optimum health.
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Obtain real-life experiences and ideas how to implement storage management infrastructures.
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Obtain guidelines what to take into account when dealing with other levels of the organisation.
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Help the attendee to get business level traction when proposing a storage networking infrastructure.
Shareable Storage with Switched SAS
Terry Gibbons
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Applications are driving new performance criteria in terms of latency and throughput. At the same time, application intelligence is bringing about new methods to maximize data availability and integrity. This combination demands storage be brought closer to the server. However, a direct attach storage model where storage is server specific is too costly and difficult to fully utilize. As an alternative, the concept of "Switched SAS" is being introduced as a method to closely tie storage to servers but with greater flexibility.
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The objective of this tutorial is to explore alternative methods of sharing storage amongst servers by using switching technology at the SAS level.
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Provide a technology review of Switched SAS.
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Review methods to reduce infrastructure while improving performance and operating expense (Case Study).
Get Ready for Support
Erwin van Londen
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This presentation covers the difficulties that vendor support organisation have when customers are calling for support. It gives guidelines of how to prepare if equipment fails and how to present this to the vendor in such a way that time to resolution is as short as possible.
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Obtain knowledge of support preparation when failures occur
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Obtain the ability to identify which pieces of information to collect so that vendor support and engineering organisations are able to resolve the problem in the most effective way.
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Learn to isolate the needed vs. wanted information.
