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Premiered:
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08 Jun 2009
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Language:
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English
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ABSTRACT:
The storage industry and more specifically IT professionals have been struggling with the ongoing issues and trends of growth and shrinking or flat budgets. The biggest trend in the past few years has been, "you need to spend to save", which for IT operations means consolidating storage environments.
This Videocast is not your typical feature infomercial it will not overwhelm you with storage functions, technologies, and a long brochure of products.
This Videocast is formatted as a general discussion that covers:
- How Open Storage can simplify storage, improve performance AND cut costs
- Past storage and current Open Storage trends
- The newest advances in Open Storage and SSD technologies and the innovative approach that combines these technologies in Open Storage
This Videocast provides exceptional quantitative and qualitative information about Open Storage and how the technology differentiates from regular storage.
View this Videocast to learn more about the strategies of Open Storage.
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Speakers
Mark Peters
Analyst
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Enterprise Strategy Group
Mark is an analyst at ESG, focused on storage systems, as well as on the (re)emerging challenges of power, cooling and space efficiencies throughout data centers.
Denis Vilfort
Sr. Product Manager, Sun Microsystems.
Since joining Sun in 2002, Denis has played a pivotal role in evangelizing Sun's growing storage and SAN offerings. Denis frequently presents at Sun's many venues and also enjoys consulting with Fortune 1000 customers on how better to manage data as well as how to formulate their storage infrastructure design.
Denis' distinguished career in the technology industry spans executive, marketing, and technical sales management roles in both SAN hardware, and system performance/network management software. Before joining Sun Microsystems, Denis was Sr. SAN Architect for QLogic Corporation, a leading provider of SAN HBAs and fabric switches. Prior to QLogic, Denis was Director of Strategic Marketing for Gadzoox Networks, a developer of SAN switches and hubs.
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Storage Technology Research Library
