Integrating Cloud Storage with Stephen Foskett

Cloud storage has certainly been one of IT’s hottest topics the past few years. But it isn’t just a hot topic anymore – cloud storage is a fundamental change to storage architecture – and the trends are clear: storage is moving to the cloud. If you're not actively evaluating cloud storage services in 2013 – then your organization is in serious danger of falling behind the competition.

With dozens of cloud storage providers, including resellers and regional services, and an assortment of cloud models – hybrid, private, and public – it’s a tough market for IT pros to navigate. Storage Decisions is here to help with our all new dinner series – Integrating Cloud Storage – featuring independent expert Stephen Foskett. Join Foskett as he cuts through the market hype and gets real about the cloud – presenting facts and technical advice that will help you determine how your organization can leverage the cloud to meet your business needs.

Foskett's experience as both an end-user and consultant will help to put the cloud into perspective -- as he'll describe the "ins and outs" of cloud storage services and breakdown the technologies that will work in your environment. Specific areas of focus include:

• Cloud storage use cases: Primary & nearline data storage, backup, archive & DR
• Cloud storage service specs
• Cloud storage security and the legal risk
• Integrating the cloud with traditional storage environments so that it appears as another storage tier
• Cloud "on-ramps": Hardware and software appliances
• Defining Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), Proposal Engine Assistant Tool (PEAT) and other emerging standards
• Newer clouds storage services, such as file-sync-and-share
• Mobile device access to cloud stored data

Admission for Integrating Cloud Storage is completely free for qualified IT professionals – but seats are strictly limited to the first 25 to sign up to ensure effective learning experiences, abundant peer-networking opportunities and direct access to our expert presenter. REGISTER NOW to save your seat in advance!

Designing Storage to Meet Big Data Requirements with Ben Woo

"Big data" isn't just the IT industry's favorite buzzword anymore, it's a description of a new paradigm of information processing that will have a profound effect on underlying infrastructure – especially your storage environment.

And while much of the big data attention has been focused on the analytics and application side – establishing the proper physical underpinnings for a big data processing system must start with selecting and configuring storage.

Because big data volumes will often scale into the petabytes of data, traditional storage systems cannot provide the performance, efficiency and economy that processing on a mega-scale requires.  But new tools and technologies are now on the market for companies to take full advantage of the valuable insight of big data analytics.

Join independent storage analyst – Ben Woo – for this intimate dinner discussion as he help attendees clear up the big data storage confusion – offering practical insight into big data storage architectures and the solutions that can support them. Topics covered at this dinner event will include:

• Defining requirements—capacity, throughput, latency, etc.
• Hadoop and storage
• Tapping into cloud storage to support a big data infrastructure
• Integrating archive and data warehousing with big data storage

Admission for Designing Storage to Meet Big Data Requirements is completely free for qualified IT professionals – but seats are strictly limited to the first 25 to sign up to ensure effective learning experiences, abundant peer-networking opportunities and direct access to our expert presenter. REGISTER NOW to save your seat in advance!

Action! Configuring Storage for Media & Entertainment Applications

Arguably the "original" big data app, the information processing needs of media and entertainment organizations imposes unique demands on storage systems. Many creative processes are collaborative efforts that can require local simultaneous access and changes in files as well as international collaborations that must be done at a distance from each other. These collaborative processes combined with the potential size of media files place daunting requirements for storage and other studio infrastructure.

Media and entertainment has attracted the interest of a number of storage vendors —both big and small —and spawned unique storage systems and architectures to provide direct attached, local networked and cloud-based storage to serve the various needs of this market.

Join Storage Decisions for Action! Configuring Storage for Media and Entertainment Applications – the only vendor-neutral event 100% devoted to the media and entertainment industry’s unique data storage needs.

Our independent expert, Tom Coughlin, will devote the night to strategies and unbiased insight into storing and accessing this data in a cost-effective and efficient manner. Tom will dive deep into topics such as:

• Storage requirements and trends for content capture, post production, content distribution as well as archiving and preservation
• Trends in M&E requirements including storage
• Storage media in M&E including HDDs, SSDs and optical storage—when and how should these be used
• How tape and LTFS fits into modern M&E infrastructures
• On location and in the studio—how to integrate remote and centralized storage services
• Specific tiering challenges for multi-petabyte M&E data stores
• New storage architectures and what they offer for the future of M&E storage
• Trends in content digitization and preservation and the rise of active archives

Admission for Action! Configuring Storage for Media & Entertainment Applications is completely free for qualified IT professionals – but seats are strictly limited to the first 25 to sign up to ensure effective learning experiences, abundant peer-networking opportunities and direct access to our expert presenter. REGISTER NOW to save your seat in advance!