Intended for students who need a solid grounding in the technical concepts underlying the storage industry, this one-day class teaches students the fundamentals of storage technologies. It also provides the essential knowledge necessary to understand more advanced topics such as storage networking and disaster recovery.

We focus on terminology, paradigms, and concepts, and the class does not require previous hands-on technical experience. The class is also suitable for consultants, teachers, technical salespeople and systems engineers who need to refine and categorize their knowledge in order to speak as experts on storage technology.

We offer Storage Essentials regularly in the Boston area. Private and on-site versions are also available. We are happy to customize this class to suit the particular needs of the audience. Please if you are interested in registering for this class.

Intended Audience

The audience for this class includes anyone who is involved with the storage industry and needs a better grounding in the fundamentals of storage technologies. Students may include those who:

• Work in the storage industry or in related industries such as optical networking and telecom
• Are new to the storage industry
• Analyze the storage industry
• Plan to explain this technology to others (salespeople, SEs, consultants)
• Recommend, specify, or approve storage purchases

Topics Covered

• Hard drive technology
  • Hard drive interfaces (SCSI, IDE, Fibre Channel)
• Tape backup technology
  • Tape formats (LTO, SDLT, AIT, SAIT, and others)
  • Basic tape backup performance
  • Jukeboxes and autoloaders
  • Backup software terminology
• Introduction to storage networking
  • Storage Area Networks (SANs)
  • Network Attached Storage (NAS)
  • Content Addressable Storage (CAS)
  • iSCSI and Ethernet SANs
• Optical drives: magneto-optical, WORM, CD, DVD
• File systems
• Volume managers
• Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)