Course Description
The need for data storage capacity is on the rise. This rise in demand is based on the rise in mobile computing, the massive amounts of user-generated content, the shift to cloud-enabled services and a need for heightened security. Organizations of all shapes and sizes are scrambling to come up with new strategies to manage their massive volumes of data and it is estimated that there will be 1.5 more IT employees working in storage by the year 2020. This course will help participants gain knowledge of storage concepts, components, and the ability to work in a storage networking environment
What Do Participants Learn?
- Learning the fundamental concepts of Storage Networks
- Understanding the technical differences between the Fibre Channel and IP Storage
- Being familiar with what storage networks can and cannot do
- Being more knowledgeable in dealing with the plethora of vendors of storage networking products and services
Who Should Attend?
- Managers
- IT Professionals
- IT Support Staff
- Any member of an IT team involved in the delivery of IT Services.
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One:
- Storage and networking fundamentals
- Network data delivery techniques
- Physical networking hardware
- Disk technologies
- Removable media technologies
Section Two:
- Modular storage arrays and disk enclosures
- Copper cable connectivity
- Fiber cable connectivity
- Storage architectures
Section Three:
- Ethernet network technologies
- Fabric services and extension technologies
- Converged storage network technologies
- Storage management
- Storage network implementation
Section Four:
- Introduction to storage virtualization
- Storage network management
- Evaluating storage performance
- Identifying storage latency and throughput
Section Five:
- Examining tuning and workload balance
- Evaluating storage device bandwidth
- Evaluating network device bandwidth
- Evaluating storage and host tools
- Securing storage networks