A View from Outside: Experience your applications through your customers’ eyes?

Server CPU performance is scaling exponentially and will do so for the foreseeable future. During the same period, however, the throughput and bandwidth performance of enterprise-class 15K RPM SAS drives has essentially remained flat, creating a storage performance gap, a key motivator for deploying solid state storage to alleviate I/O bottlenecks.

Join this webinar and learn how to accelerate application performance and optimize your end-to-end storage fabric by deploying a best of breed solution from EMC, Emulex and Brocade.

Allison Nolan, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Flash Products Division, EMC
John Cedillo, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Emulex
Scott Shimomura, Director, Data Center Product Marketing, Brocade

Server CPU performance is scaling exponentially and will do so for the foreseeable future. During the same period, however, the throughput and bandwidth performance of enterprise-class 15K RPM SAS drives has essentially remained flat, creating a storage performance gap, a key motivator for deploying solid state storage to alleviate I/O bottlenecks.

Join this webinar and learn how to accelerate application performance and optimize your end-to-end storage fabric by deploying a best of breed solution from EMC, Emulex and Brocade.

Allison Nolan, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Flash Products Division, EMC
John Cedillo, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Emulex
Scott Shimomura, Director, Data Center Product Marketing, Brocade

Over 75% of the application performance problems exist today because of poor performing storage in either IOPS, bandwidth or latency. Achieving ideal storage performance becomes a greater challenge the more diverse and complex the workload, which can ultimately bring storage performance to its knees. Many flash array vendors claim to solve application performance challenges, yet few can keep their performance promises with today’s demands on storage.

In this webcast, we will discuss real world mixed workload requirements for applications focusing on two common use cases – virtualization and SAP. The lessons learned will be valid for all business critical applications. We will focus on how to test mixed workloads and what results to look for from a high performance SSD storage.

The challenges of data growth are driving the requirement for new approaches to data backup that minimise the media requirements and utilise snapshot techniques. This session will cover these technologies as well as disaster recovery management, effective backup management of both structured and unstructured data, and the handling of long term data in a way that meets regulatory compliance. Integration with cloud and virtualisation technologies will also be covered.

Ian has over thirty four years experience in the IT industry with skills in engineering, development, people management, project management, service delivery, service management consultancy and sales. Within IBM Ian has worked as a Technical Sales and Business Consultant in the IBM Tivoli brand across Europe for the last twelve years, specialising in storage software. Ian is an IBM Certified Professional and a qualified ITIL Manager.

Definition chaos is often seen at the beginning of industry trends and new hot topics, like Cloud, Convergence, VDI, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Software-defined Storage (SdS), which is related to Software-defined Networking and Software-defined Datacenter, has the potential to become that next big trend. This presentation will look at the context in which Software-defined Storage is evolving and how the explosion of data growth is driving innovation for the next generation of storage virtualisation.

Dr. Markus Pleier was elected to serve on the Board of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe in 2011. In industry, after serving as Managing Director of a German IT enterprise, he joined EMC in 2000, at a time when storage networking became a new standard. His responsibilities at that time were very strongly connected with the growth of large SAN infrastructures and focused on the professional services area of EMC in Germany. More recently he was appointed one of the technical leads for EMC in EMEA in line with its broader strategy.

Since 2009 he has served EMC as the Chief Presales Office leading the technical presales on a world-wide basis. EMC honoured him as a Distinguished Engineer in 2009 to take credit of his contribution leadership of the EMC technical community in the field and he was named EMEA CTO for EMC in 2010 help customers to transform into private cloud and advise and guide the executive sales management in EMEA in the technology side.

Dr. Markus Pleier has a degree in Computer Science and holds a PhD. in Medicine for Image Handling and Manipulation Algorithms.

Odds are you have heard the hype about private and public clouds over the last 18-24 months. You may even have a business directive to move more of your IT infrastructure to cloud and are exploring ideas on how to do that successfully.

Register for this webinar to learn from specific use cases for the cloud that highlight successful deployments applicable to both private and public implementations.

When an organization has a distributed or mobile workforce or requires executives or key personnel to work from home, the issue of securing the business critical data becomes especially problematic. In most cases today, responsibility for the security of the file data is the left up to the individual end user. Theft or even the borrowing of the mobile device leaves critical file data exposed.

The rapid growth of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) brings cost savings and efficiency for organizations but also a greater risk of security breaches. Today, no control or reporting of use of critical data on mobile devices is possible and this creates regulatory problems.

Join your fellow professionals to understand the storage implications for storing file data in a distributed world and best practices on file data security.

Is your organization trying to contain costs as Big Data and other initiatives increase the demand for more storage? As the volumes of data continue to increase, so does the need for organizations to cost-effectively manage all their storage assets. In this webinar we will cover multiple options for managing storage. You will learn about discovery of storage assets across SAN, NAS, and multi-vendor platforms. We will discuss practical ways to use trending analysis, forecasting and optimization to cost-effectively address current and future growth requirements. Our discussion will also include an explanation of how integration with other solutions can lead to greater efficiencies through runbook automation as well as incident and configuration management.

Nick has 22 years of enterprise storage experience. He has worked with many global enterprises and has years of direct experience helping organizations evaluate and deploy storage systems and management software. Prior to working as a consultant, Nick was an operations software specialist for HP Global Accounts.

This session will focus on the challenges of managing assets and configuration information in a Storage Area Network (SAN). A software solution that identifies the components and paths from servers to storage arrays via SAN switches will be discussed, including how this information can be exported to a CMDB. Change and configuration records for SAN environments will also be presented as well as new provisioning solutions for cloud based environments which require a service level based approach.

Ian has over thirty four years experience in the IT industry with skills in engineering, development, people management, project management, service delivery, service management consultancy and sales. Within IBM Ian has worked as a Technical Sales and Business Consultant in the IBM Tivoli brand across Europe for the last twelve years, specialising in storage software. Ian is an IBM Certified Professional and a qualified ITIL Manager.

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