• What is a high availability VPN?
  • Point: Which comes first, the SAN or the backup solution?
  • Keeping track of customers' current hardware
  • Evaluating vendors for stability and quality
  • Counterpoint: Which comes first, the SAN or the backup solution?
  • What is the difference between FCP, FCIP and iFCP?
  • Configuring master and slave drives
  • Accessing the IQ store from read nodes
  • What is the fastest SAN on the market?
  • Configuring your first SAN: Usable versus raw storage
  • Configuring your first SAN: Creating your LUNs
  • Preparing for SNIA's certification exam
  • Making it a simple transition from NAS to SAN
  • How to assign LUNs in a SAN
  • How WWNs are associated with LUNs
  • Servers and SANs, how they work
  • Still searching for the Holy Grail of management software
  • How do I know if I'm ready for a SAN?
  • Does each server require a separate OS?
  • Is SAN implementation more expensive than NAS?
  • Clustering products for Windows
  • What will it be, iSCSI or iFCP?
  • Switched fabric topology
  • Helpful hints when expanding or moving your data
  • Calculating parallel availability
  • Serverless backup isn't the only solution for a SAN
  • What to consider when calculating availability
  • iFCP networking best practices
  • NAS vs. Windows file server
  • Where to find testing tools
  • Where to focus your compliance efforts
  • Discussing the pros and cons of SAN vs. NAS
  • Making DMZ isolated networks safe
  • Who's supporting Exchange 2000?
  • Centralizing backups the right way
  • Failing drives and what to do about them
  • CD-ROM vs. DVD for long term storage
  • Will compliance spell the end of optical storage?
  • What compliance means for peripheral storage
  • Name servers in a multi-switch SAN fabric
  • Who's going to be responsible for compliance -- vendors or end users?
  • Is it possible to SAN boot using an iSCSI adapter?
  • Suitable methods for attaching NAS
  • Choosing the right replication method
  • Making a case for high-quality failover management software
  • How to convert an EMC SAN to an HDS SAN
  • Evaluating clustering software products
  • Increasing uptime in the data center with a SAN
  • Creating an iSCSI SAN using only Ethernet switches
  • Drives with higher MTBF specs tend to last longer
  • Configuring for faster read/write performance
  • The best way to connect a NAS to a SAN
  • How can I set up persistent binding?
  • What is the format of WWN?
  • What is write order fidelity?
  • RAID-2 isn't being used much anymore
  • Sarbanes-Oxley and how it applies to e-mail archiving
  • Disk servers, are they a viable management solution?
  • Its NAS gateways over filer servers
  • How is FC-AL implemented in loop switch?
  • What's the basic difference between a fabric and a loop switch?
  • Consolidate with NAS gateways
  • Load balancing with Fibre Channel
  • Migrating Netware
  • How to change a core switch to a principle switch
  • Multiple file access
  • What is masking?
  • What value does NAS add to an organization?
  • Why port zoning is more important
  • The difference between volume and a LUN
  • How LUN zoning comes into play
  • Will application functionality move to the switch?
  • Who's winning the SATA/ATA race?
  • The difference between Veritas Volume Replicator and Storage Replicator
  • The best method for migrating from Symmetrix to DMX
  • Building a four-node SAN cluster
  • What hard and soft port zoning means
  • Moving from a modular array to an enterprise array
  • Digital to optical switch conversion
  • How FC-AL and FC-SW switches are implemented
  • It's always better to mirror disks first
  • How SATA drives hook up to a SAN
  • An expert's recommendation for a SAN failover method
  • How easy is it to implement a NAS gateway?
  • NAS gateway products for 2004
  • How difficult will gateways be to manage?
  • SAN vs. NAS file sharing
  • Why a NAS gateway?
  • How easy is it to drop a NAS gateway into an existing SAN?
  • Where SAS will play out
  • Compliance shouldn't limit your choice of technology
  • Assessing current policies and matching to appropriate HW/SW
  • Where to put your compliance dollars
  • It makes sense to build data archives on a SAN
  • How Sarbanes-Oxley will affect publicly traded companies
  • 2004 compliance predictions: Cheap storage, compliance investments and e-mail archiving
  • The ratio of storage admins to data pool size?
  • The state of SMI-S
  • Major storage disciplines and who gets to execute them
  • External storage array needed for clustering
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