[nflug] [Fwd: Technical Event For NFLUG Members]

[Darin Perusich]

Here's something that I thought might be of interest to some of you.

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*From:  * Parrish Blaszka
*Sent:  * Monday, April 16, 2007 9:59 AM
*To:    * 'nflug at nflug.org'
*Subject:       * Technical Class - Storage Networking - Buffalo, NY

Dear Niagara Frontier Linux Users Group Members,

Please accept our invitation to attend the class "Next Generation
Storage Networking: Beyond Conventional SAN and NAS".

*Who Should Attend?* The class is designed for a technical audience:
systems administrators, storage administrators, and disaster-recovery
planners who are interested in cutting-edge storage technologies and/or
whose needs have not been satisfied by the product offerings of the
leading vendors. We assume basic familiarity with storage networking
and/or SCSI and network file systems.

*Is It Worth Your Time?* This same half-day class was recently taught at
a major IT technical conference at a fee of $400 per student. It is
being offered free of charge to information technology end users on a
first come, first served basis.

*Still skeptical?* Read our reviews
(_http://www.cambridgecomputer.com/testimonials.cfm_)

*What's The Catch?* The event sponsors will present their technology
message for approximately 20 minutes during lunch or in between
sessions. Please note the sponsors do not influence the course content.
This is NOT a marketing seminar.

*TL-300: Next Generation Storage Networking: Beyond Conventional SAN and
NAS*
April 26, 2007
9am-2pm (complimentary breakfast and lunch are provided)

The Saturn Club
977 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14209

_*Register*_
_http://register.cambridgecomputer.com__**_**

_*Class Description*_**
The storage industry is experiencing a flurry of innovation.
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 file system designs and
alternatives to NFS and CIFS are enabling high performance file sharing
measured in Gigabytes (capital B) per second. New spindle management
techniques are enabling higher performance and lower cost disk storage.
Meanwhile, a whole new class of efficiency technologies are allowing
storage protocols to flow over the WAN with unprecedented performance.

Material has been recently updated to include a discussion of storage
virtualization technologies.

This class is a survey of latest storage networking technologies with
commentary on where and when these technologies are most suitably
deployed. The goal is to help attendees make sense out of all of the new
technologies and to identify which are relevant to their organizations.

_*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) and archival file systems
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)

Thank you,
Parrish Blaszka
Marketing Manager
Cambridge Computer Services, Inc.
/Artists in Data Storage/
Tel: 781.250.3240
Fax: 781.250.3340
_www.cambridgecomputer.com_ <file://www.cambridgecomputer.com>
pblaszka at cambridgecomputer.com



-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716-633-3463
Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com
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