Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
- Christopher Poelker is the vice president of enterprise solutions at Falconstor Software. Prior to working at Falconstor he was a storage architect at Hitachi Data Systems. Also, Chris has worked as a lead storage architect/senior systems architect for Compaq Computer, Inc., in New York. While at Compaq, Chris built the sales/service engagement model for Compaq StorageWorks, and trained most of the company's VAR's, Channel's and Compaq ES/PS contacts on StorageWorks. Chris' certifications include: MCSE, MCT (Microsoft Trainer), MASE (Compaq Master ASE Storage Architect), and A+ certified (PC Technician).
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Contributions from Christopher Poelker
- SAN performance over distance
- FC-AL port protocol for storage
- Migrating from DAS to a SAN
- RAID groups and parity groups
- Connecting a SAN in the DMZ
- IDE NAS solution for home network
- SAN predictions for 2005: The year of programmable storage
- Ten best practices for moving data files to a SAN
- How do you defrag a hard drive on NAS?
- Does Ethernet track requests sent to the server?
- Ten steps to data replication
- Separate HBAs for tape access
- Getting information from NAS vendors
- Why you shouldn't share disk resources in a SAN
- Determining the availability of a four-node network
- Connecting multimode fiber cable to single mode
- Configuring your first SAN: Usable versus raw storage
- Configuring your first SAN: Creating your LUNs
- Making it a simple transition from NAS to SAN
- Preparing for SNIA's certification exam