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Date	Location
Tue. Mar. 23	New York, NY The New York Helmsley Hotel
Thu. May 20	San Diego, CA
Thu. Aug. 12	Chicago, IL
Wed. Nov. 17	London, UK

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Taking Control of Your Storage with Storage Virtualization

Virtualization has changed the rules.  It’s no longer about consolidation.  It’s about 24 by 7 by 365 application availability.  It’s about simplification.  It’s about massively reducing manually intensive tasks while squeezing the most absolutely possible out of the infrastructure while reducing power and cooling. Virtualization has changed the server paradigm by enabling resources on-demand, loosely coupled bonds between software and hardware, incredibly elastic scalability, and pay-as-you go flexibility, enabling cloud services.  

Storage can no longer be the tail wagging the dog as it has been in so many IT organizations. Virtualization has the potential to provide the same or similar paradigm shift for storage.   Server virtualization has changed the rules.

At this free, one-day seminar, Marc Staimer will concentrate on how to most effectively utilize virtualization within storage infrastructures while highlighting the best fits for each of the different types of virtualization (hypervisor, file, IO, block, SAN, cloud, cluster, etc.) He will slice through the trade press hype and detail the current state of these technologies, their real value, and what real-world operational problems they solve.  There will be three distinct special sessions.  All of them will revolve around storage virtualization in a virtualized server world.

• The first will focus on gaining control of distributed file storage.
• The second will tackle gaining control of block-SAN storage.
• And the third will dig down into the ins and outs of utilizing virtualization to get control of the infrastructure.

Seating for this seminar is free for qualified IT professionals, but extremely limited. To claim your seat, apply today by calling Seminar Manager Annabelle Bozin at (781) 429-4155 or complete our quick online application.

Keynote Speaker

Marc Staimer, CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Marc Staimer is the President of Dragon Slayer Consulting, focused on in-depth, detailed analysis of the storage, SAN, server, and I/O markets, (aka System Area Networks) vendors, users, technologies, and real value propositions. Mr. Staimer has helped guide strategic direction of the enterprise storage industry's top vendors. His expertise encompasses data availability, SAN, NAS, and Storage Virtualization. Previously, Mr. Staimer was the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Polaris Communications. He has also held executive marketing positions with CNT as well as sales positions with Apertus Technologies and McData.

Topics include:

• The urgent escalating operational problems with out-of-control file storage a.k.a. “NAS Sprawl”.
• How it is typically managed today.
• More effective virtualization alternatives including DFS, Automounters, Clustered NAS systems, Grid file storage, cloud storage
• Gaining Control of Block-SAN Storage
• The urgent operational problems of bringing SAN storage into the virtualized world.
• Types of storage virtualization including Block-SAN, Hypervisor, Server volume management and advanced file systems
• The considerable and growing urgent problems of infrastructure complexity
• The promise of infrastructure virtualization and consolidation
• Types of infrastructure and IO virtualization like converged enhanced Ethernet (CEE), infiniband, and multi-root IO virtualization - PCIe

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.

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