WINTER 2008
Conference
Links
to the slides by each presenter have been added to the Agenda below.
“Is Storage and I/O Still Important in
a Virtual World?”
February 21, 2008
Date: Thursday,
February 21, 2008
Two sessions
please sign up for one or both. Seating is limited please RSVP to tbecchetti@sjm.com
Morning session will include lunch.
Time: 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM Includes Lunch Sponsored
By EMC.
12:30 PM –
4:00PM
Convenient
Location:
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directions: See map below.
Free parking.
The meeting is open to anyone who would like to
attend. Cost: n/c
Agenda:
08:00 - 08:05 Welcome / Business Meeting
Tom Becchetti, Chairman, Minneapolis-St. Paul CMG
08:05
- 09:00 Storage and I/O Industry Trends and
Perspectives
SLIDES
from Storage IO Available here - http://www.storageio.com/downloads.htm
Greg Schulz, Founder
the StorageIO Group (www.storageio.com),
creator of
www.greendatastorage.com and Author
"Resilient Storage Networks" (Elsevier).
Today virtualization
techniques and technologies are being focused at
consolidation to boost
capacity utilization and energy efficiency, however
the next wave of the decades
old cycle of distribute, consolidate,
distribute, consolidate is
to address the performance woes associated with
over-consolidation. This
sessions with industry analyst and author Greg
Schulz takes a look at
recent and emerging industry technology news,
initiatives and trends
along with why infrastructure resource management
including capacity planning
is as relevant now as it ever has been to enable
the juggling of physical IT
resources to balance performance, availability,
capacity and energy to different
levels of services in an increasing
virtualized (consolidated
or non-consolidated) environment. Topics will
include clustered storage,
tier-0 and SSD, intelligent power management
(IPM), storage interfaces
wars V2.008 among others. Learn more about
StorageIO areas of coverage
and analysis including industry trends and
perspectives reports at www.storageio.com.
09:00 – 09:45 "Is
Storage and I/O Still important in a Virtual World?"
Steve Crawford,
Fujitsu, Storage Product Manager
In today’s dynamic
environment and increasing demand for storage, using the right technology and
understanding the trade-offs is important. These challenges can often
seem daunting as market demands continually raise the bar of excellence.
Therefore, you need the best technology at the right price. Storage
trends that will be discussed:
Storage Tiers (including
discussion of Solid State Drives)
MAID (Massive Array of Idle
Disks)
Security
Performance
Host Connectivity
Disaster Recovery for
Business Continuity
Virtualization
You will understand the
various storage technologies to ensure that your operations and applications
are ready for virtual world.
09:45 – 10:00 BREAK Sponsored by Fujitsu
10:00 – 10:45 "Is Storage and I/O Still important in
a Virtual World?"
S. Kartik,
CTO, EMC
Slides
from EMC available here: EMC Slides
Clearly, performance
is always going to be important to meet business
needs, and the I/O
stack being the slowest, storage performance is
paramount. Most modern
storage arrays have had virtualization, the
abstraction of
physical from logical presentation for many years, but
have been shackled by
vendor-specific implementations. External
storage virtualization
now offers the abstraction of back-end arrays
to front end host,
with the promise of outage-free data mobility and a
common management.
But what does that
mean to storage performance, and performance
management? What are
the differences between in-band and out-of band
architectures? What is
the impact of cache in a virtualization engine?
To what extent does
seamless mobility give us the opportunity to tune
performance on the
fly? What are the best practices and pitfalls for
storage layout in a
virtual world? What about mixing arrays of
differing performance
characteristics for a given workload? What about
the impact of copy
operations and remote replication operations? What
are some of the
operational issues one should consider in a virtual
world?
10:45 – 11:30 "Is Storage and I/O Still important in
a Virtual World?"
Matt O’Keefe – Alvarri
In this talk we will summarize
performance and failure analyses test results for a high performance NFS server.
The goals of this project are: to observe and describe the file transfer
performance and fault recovery behaviour of this server under both light and
heavy loads with varying file sizes and system access patterns; to measure the
it for reliability, uniformity, performance, and scalability in operational
scenarios; and to develop configuration guidelines and best practices to
achieve the highest performance, most efficient utilization and effective data
management using the high performance NAS.
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch Sponsored by EMC
11:45 - 12:30 "Why is Storage and I/O Still important in a Virtual World?"
SLIDES about Pillar Data
Systems – Third Party
SLIDES about Virtualized Data Center – Pillar
Glen
Shok, Director, Marketing – Pillar Data Systems
Data center resources have traditionally been underutilized while drawing enormous amounts of power and taking up valuable floor space. Virtualization has been a positive evolutionary step in the data center, driving consolidation of these resources to maximize utilization and power savings, as well as to simplify management and maintenance.
There are many entrants into the server virtualization
market, including VMWare, Microsoft, Oracle, Citrix, and others; so there is a
good chance that you are either running virtualization in a test or development
capacity or have taken the leap toward a production virtualized data center.
With all of the benefits of virtualization comes a wholesale change in the way
that you must plan for backup, restore, and recovery. It is important that when
planning consolidation projects, these important business-continuance
applications are considered, as well as the type of storage needed to host them.
12:30 – 1:15 Desktop, Nearline &
Enterprise Disc Drives
-
What’s the difference? -
Willis Whittington, Seagate
Seagate Slides available here: Seagate Slides
For the past twenty five years the storage marketplace has been divided
into two major categories namely
“Desktop” and “
Each of these classes of drives requires a unique and specific set of
attributes to fulfill its role. This
presentation will explore these differences and explain why you need to use the
right drive for the right application.
01:15 –
02:00 “Disk Performance Modeling and the Applicability to
Performance Systems”
Lee Reiersgord,
Systems Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.
A mainframe disk
modeling case studying using LeadTime, a disk performance modeling system, for
configuration analysis and the setting of performance expectations. Can
the same process be used for open systems?
02:00 – 02:15 Break sponsored by Sun
Microsystems.
02:15 – 03:00 “HP / VMware”
Keith Nordbie
David Payne
03:00
– 03:45 “MSI”
03:45
– 04:30 “Nettapp”
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Speakers
Steve Crawford, Fujitsu
Steve Crawford joined
Fujitsu (formally Amdahl) in October 1997 as part of the North American
Technical Marketing Team. Now he is part of the Storage Group of Fujitsu
Computer Systems. His present assignment is Product Manager for CentricStor –
Virtual Tape Appliance (VTA). His past experiences have been in various
Open Systems products (including Windows, Linux, Solaris Servers and Open
System Storage). Prior to joining Fujitsu, Steve was with Distributed
Processing Technology (DPT) – sold to Adaptec, as a Program Manager for SCSI
subsystems, 2 years with Boundless Technologies as a Product Manager for their
Network Computers and X Windows products. Before this he spent 3 years at
NCR (formally AT&T Global Information Solutions) and 13 years within
AT&T at Bell Laboratories, AT&T Computer Systems and Teletype
Corporation developing various products in the UNIX and 3270 compatible
market. Steve has a Master's Degree from
S. Kartik, CTO,
EMC
S. Kartik, Ph.D. is the Chief Technology Officer for the Central
Division, and an EMC Distinguished Engineer.
He has been active in Information Technology for the past 15 years,
having worked extensively in both academic circles and industry, designing,
deploying and managing large infrastructures for Fortune 1000 customers. His
experience in EMC has spanned Advanced Business Continuity architecture in
several industry sectors, enterprise solutions (ERPs, CRM, Data Warehousing
etc.) and emerging technologies. In his
role as CTO for the Central Division in EMC, and as a member of EMC's CTO
Council, he covers a region of 15 states in the US Midwest, supporting a
revenue base of close to $1 Billion in EMC technologies.
Prior to his role
as CTO, he led the Business Continuity, Mainframe and Solutions Practices for
the U.S. Midwest and
Glen
Shok, Director, Marketing – Pillar Data Systems
Mr. Shok is
responsible for Pillar’s outbound and technical marketing activities.
Glen has spent his 15 year
career in the storage industry either bringing Networking & Storage systems
to market or selling them.
Glen has held various
senior technical sales and marketing positions at Cisco, Brocade and EMC as
well.
Previous
to joining Nexus, Keith had worked at MicroAge, Inacom, and OPM Information
Systems helping to lead strategic growth in emerging technologies. Keith was early to lead the charge at OPM in
the emerging Windows NT v3.51 marketplace.
At MicroAge, Keith established a marketplace for an outsourcing of IT
departments with an offering called “Enterprise IT”.
Keith
is accredited and certified with various vendors at both sales and presales SE
and has a bachelor of arts from the
Matthew O’Keefe is VP of Engineering at Alvarri
Alvarri a startup company developing software for laptop data
protection. Through the Alvarri
consulting group, Dr. O’Keefe also assists companies
(including Cray and BlueArc) in improving their storage R&D and product development practices.
Prior to Alvarri, Matthew was Director of Storage at Red Hat where he led
storage product development and marketing. These products won numerous industry
awards and created significant new software revenue streams. Before Red Hat,
O’Keefe founded Sistina Software (acquired by Red Hat), a Linux storage
management software vendor, and held a variety of executive roles while there
including president & CEO, VP of Engineering, and CTO. Prior to Sistina,
Dr. O’Keefe was a tenured faculty member at the
Willis Whittington,
Product Manager Seagate
Willis graduated BSc and MBA in the
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