According to Arun Taneja, the vision of a true storage area network (SAN) will be realized by storage virtualization. But, the tricky part will be understanding how to complete the puzzle using virtualization. This seminar series with the Taneja Group founder will take an in-depth look at how storage virtualization is being thought of and deployed today. Taneja will discuss why virtualization is back en vogue with forward-thinking storage and server managers.

During this one-day event you will hear how virtualization has progressed from vaporware to an actual concept storage managers are using to minimize the amount of machines needed to manage, centralize data and change the economics of storage. Taneja will also look at how storage virtualization makes heterogeneous storage compatible, eases data migration and enables consolidation.

While virtualization is still a burgeoning technology for storage, the merits are many. Understanding the benefits and drawbacks of virtualization can help streamline your storage environment. This seminar will provide the answers to many of the virtualization questions swirling in storage today.

Keynote Speaker

Arun Teneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst, The Taneja Group
Arun Taneja is the Founder, President and Consulting Analyst of the Taneja Group, an analyst and consulting group focused on storage and storage-centric server technologies. From late 2000 to early 2003 he was a Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Storage Group, an analyst group focused on storage technologies. Arun has 25 years' experience in the industry, specifically in the areas of servers, operating systems, file systems, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), FC, iSCSI and InfiniBand, clustering and storage management software (backup/restore, replication, snapshot, SRM, virtualization, etc.).

Topics include:

• In-band vs. out-of-band vs. hybrid approach
• Controller-based, network-based and host-based options
• Virtualization architecture options
• Improving application availability
• How virtualization can increase utilization, reporting and overall performance
• Thin provisioning, replication and future applications

What you can expect

In each seminar in this series, your morning starts out with a full buffet breakfast and ends with a giveaway from our event sponsors. The agenda includes time for Q&A, networking opportunities and tons of valuable information -- and you get it all for FREE.