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The Latest Trends in Storage Networking
Hosted by Georgia State University - Atlanta, GA
This one-day event consists of four lectures addressing the latest trends in storage networking. The four lectures are derived from the program for Storage Day at the 24th Annual Usenix LISA Conference which will be held this coming November in San Jose, CA. LISA stands for Large Installation System Administration. It is the premier conference for hands-on system administrators. At LISA the presentations are delivered by industry experts (you know, the people who write the technical books and articles), not by product manufacturers.
The program is offered for FREE to IT end users. There is a nominal fee to attend for those who do not work as an end user of information technology.
Why is it free? What's the catch?
The LISA conference is put on by The USENIX Association in conjunction with SAGE, LOPSA, and SNIA. These are all world-class non-profit organizations, and as an IT professional, you should be participating in them! The reason we are offering this program for free is to help promote the LISA conference and these organizations. Our hope is that you will be wowed by the quality of the course content and consider participating in future activities and events.
Who is the intended audience and will it be worth your time?
The lecture materials are intended for a hands-on technical audience: system admins, storage admins, disaster recovery planners, data center managers, etc. We expect that you have a working knowledge of storage, backup system principles, networks, and servers. The course content is particularly useful to those who are responsible for system architecture and for general IT strategy.
Do you have to take a full day out of the office or can you catch just a portion?
The program runs from 9:00am to roughly 2:30pm, but it is broken down into 4 separate lectures with a lunch break in the middle. Feel free to leave early or arrive late. You will still get a lot out of your time investment. See below for the full program.
Agenda:
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End |
Session Descriptions |
| 8:30 |
9:00 |
Doors Open - Registration / Coffee and Light Breakfast |
| 9:00 |
9:45 |
Storage Day Introduction: The Evolution of Storage Networking and The
Current Trends in the Industry
This session sets the stage for the other three lectures at Data Storage Day. We start by looking at how today's enterprise SAN and NAS solutions evolved from humble direct-attached disk and file servers. We then turn our sights to the industry trends that are shaping the current wave of innovation. Specifically, we are interested in deduplication, storage virtualization, solid state storage devices (SSDs), automated management of tiered storage, cloud storage, “object” storage, and massively scalable file systems.
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| 9:45 |
11:00 |
Deduplication and Single Instance Storage: Practical Applications for
Backups, Archiving, and Primary Storage
Deduplication (dedupe) and single instance storage (SIS) are perhaps the hottest topics in the storage industry. Recently, EMC acquired a dedupe startup for over two billion dollars! Meanwhile, all of the leading backup vendors are scrambling to integrate dedupe into their products. But this is just the beginning of a major new technology trend! Dedupe offers benefits not just for backups, but also for cloud storage, archiving, virtual desktops, and even primary storage for high performance production servers and VMs.
This session is divided into three segments:
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The first section discusses the fundamental technology of dedupe, revealing both the shortcomings of current approaches and the opportunities for new solutions.
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The second section focuses on dedupe for backups. We illustrate different ways to integrate dedupe into backup systems as well as revealing non-dedupe approaches that might deliver similar results at lower costs.
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Lastly, we describe applications for dedupe and SIS outside of conventional backups and archiving. Use cases include virtual desktops, rich media archives, cloud storage, and primary storage for physical and virtual servers.
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| 11:15 |
12:30 |
Application Acceleration With Solid State Storage
The data storage industry is experiencing a mini renaissance as a flurry of new solid state storage devices come to market. SSDs are now available in a broad spectrum of price, form factor, and performance. It is hard enough for a storage architect to sort out the myriad of choices, but that is nothing compared to the challenge of figuring out how to deploy SSD technology in an affordable and effective way. This lecture focuses on practical approaches for integrating SSD technology into your existing storage infrastructure. We explore different insertion points in the storage I/O path for caching and SSDs and in turn reveal a variety of methods for accelerating databases, email systems, virtualization platforms, content repositories, local file systems and network file systems (NAS).
Topics Include:
- Type of flash media: SLC, MLC, DRAM
- Packaging options for solid state storage
- Differentiating random from sequential disk I/O patterns
- SQL database acceleration
- MS Exchange acceleration
- File system tiering acceleration
- Dynamic tiered storage in a SAN Array
- Application-level QoS
- 3rd party caching appliances
- Solid state storage with deduplication
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| 12:30 |
1:15 |
Lunch Break (Box Lunch Provided) |
| 1:15 |
2:30 |
A Primer on Cloud Storage, Object Storage, and High Capacity File Systems
The hype surrounding cloud computing has spilled over into the storage industry, inspiring tremendous innovation in the fields of object storage and large scale file management. Conventional file storage technologies (enterprise NAS systems) cannot scale limitlessly, not to mention that they are too rigid to expand and contract with the ebb and flow of the cloud. The cloud demands a whole new class of file systems and storage management approaches. As luck would have it, the problems being tackled in the name of cloud storage are applicable to large scale storage management in private facilities. In other words, these innovations are relevant regardless of whether one ever plans to store data in the cloud.
This session looks at the current state of cloud storage solutions while defining the basic terminology and illustrating the major problems left to solve. Special focus is given to object-based storage models as alternatives to conventional file systems.
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Hotel Information: Special rates available for conference attendees at Residence Inn Atlanta Downtown
***Rates based on availability
134 Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
To make a reservations, call Michelle Carter: 404- 522-0950 - Ext: 522
In the event that you need assistance with directions, please contact GSU's Welcome Center at 404-413-2063 for assistance.
Parking: Georgia State University's G-Deck will be available for parking. Attendees should name GSU USENIX as the event they are attending. The parking rate is $6.00. If for some reason G-Deck can not accommodate all GSU USENIX visitors, a parking attendant will direct them to the nearest available GSU deck/lot.
General Questions: Please feel free to contact Amina at amina@saneducation.com
Where
Georgia State University
Veterans Memorial Hall of Dahlberg Hall Building
30 Courtland Street SE
Atlanta
30303
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USENIX
The Advanced Computing Systems Association:
• Fosters technical excellence and innovation
• Supports and disseminates research with a practical bias
• Provides a neutral forum for discussion of technical issues
• Encourages computing outreach into the community at large
Since 1975, the USENIX Association has brought together the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world.
The USENIX conferences have become the essential meeting grounds for the presentation and discussion of the most advanced information on the developments of all aspects of computing systems.
