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Storage Management

Strategies to help design, implement and manage your storage environment and infrastructure to meet the needs of your organization

May 19, 2011

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Speaker Bios   

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center  Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

What is your strategy for managing your storage environment to best address the needs of extended enterprise?

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • How to storage environment to address the needs of your enterprise

  • How to manage the impact of SharePoint and other platforms

  • How to address the impact of desktop virtualization, cloud computing and other game changing technologies on your storage environment

  • How to understand the impact that different applications will have on your storage infrastructure

  • How to consolidate network storage
  • How to better understand what the business requires and how you can best support their dynamic needs

Conference Program

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

Palmer

9:00am-10:00am

Managing Storage – What are the Trends & Challenges for 2011 and 2012?

 

Consumer devices, virtualization, cloud are all disruptive in nature. They are changing the way we access and store day thereby making organizations more efficient and more mobile. However, the paradox is that the more mobile we are the more data that is being created and the more storage challenges that are encountered.

In this session, attendees will learn a strategy for managing the explosive data growth due to disruptive technologies and techniques for planning for the future.

10:00am -10:30am - Refreshment Break

Kerrigan

10:30am-11:30am

How to Leverage Cloud Storage in the Enterprise

 

Cloud storage can provide significant benefits to the enterprise, however, it important that you perform your due diligence before embarking on this initiative. Since data is the lifeblood of any business you need to proceed with caution.

This session will provide attendees with a framework to help make this business decision.

  • How to identify where your data is being stored
  • How will the data be secured
  • What type of facilities are being utilized
  • How to understand the pricing tiers
  • What API is being used and
  • What API is being used and is it consistent between cloud providers

Benati

11:30am-12:30pm

How to Manage the Consumer Technology Impact on Enterprise Storage

 

iPhones, iPads, Xooms and other smartphones and tablet computer are proliferating at a record pace. What does this mean for storage management? What kind of burdens are being placed on the storage infrastructure?

In this session attendees will learn how to: 

  • How to factor in the potential effects into current architectural decisions
  • Who should take the lead on mobile device storage infrastructure?
  • How to evolve storage strategies to accommodate the always on strategies

12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon

Benati

1:30pm-2:30pm

How to Achieve Storage Efficiency in Your Data Center

 

In this session attendees will learn how to build a green data center that delivers the amount of performance needed for meeting aggressive business goals.

Content that will be covered:

  • Strategies to save 100,000 kilowatts/25 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions or more per year
  • How to translate this into savings the business can understand
  • How to measure and report the savings
  • How to build a plan to accomplish this
  • How to deliver more while spending less

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

Cleary

3:00pm-4:00pm

How to Effectively Design Storage for Desktop Virtualization

 

With desktop virtualization, storage goes beyond straightforward size calculations. Desktop virtualization relies on the storage infrastructure loading different parts of the OS and user environment. Each request will impact the storage infrastructure. Without an effectively designed storage subsystem, virtual desktop will slow down significantly because the storage becomes a bottleneck.
In this session, attendees will learn how to avoid pitfalls when designing the storage architecture to support desktop virtualization.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleary

4:00pm-5:00pm

How to Effectively Design Storage for Desktop Virtualization
Metrics and Measurements: How to Make Informed Decisions About Storage Resource Deployment

(panel discussion featuring enterprise IT departments) 

As IT professionals are working more closely with the business, they are expected to measure the success of what they are doing and how it adds specific value to enterprise. This prompts the question: How do we make the right decisions about deploying storage resources and supporting initiatives such as cloud and virtualization?

In this session attendees will learn how to leverage specific strategies and tactics to provide measurements and insight.

Areas that will be covered include:

  • System resource analysis
  • Business analytics
  • Data footprint reduction

Conference price: $249 per person.


Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations.  During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.

  

 


 

 

 

 

 
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Village of Rosemont
Chicago O'Hare Airport