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Storage Virtualization Essentials “Getting Ready for The Cloud” Webinars

Storage Virtualization Essentials

Host: Michael Siggins, Publisher of ChannelPro-SMB

Jeff Boles, Senior analyst and director of validation services, Taneja Group Inc.

Greg Schulz, Founder and senior analyst, The Server and Storage I/O Group

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Managing Information Explosion in Healthcare

Managing Information Explosion in Healthcare

Presented by Ashish Nadkarni, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group

Recent social, regulatory and policy changes mean that the Healthcare Industry will face unprecedented growth in the use of electronic medical records (EMRs). This, coupled with the mandate for providers to become all electronic, means that Healthcare IT will be under tremendous pressure at least for the next decade in storing and managing the information explosion. Learn how IT can manage tiered retention of data while benefiting from the mega trends occurring in the industry today, including cloud, virtualization and mobility.

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6 Key Storage Requirements of Managed Service Providers

In this educational webinar, Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at the Taneja Group, demystifies the alphabet soup of XaaS offerings and discusses the 6 key storage requirements for MSPs.

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The New Best Practice of SAN TAPs

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The New Best Practice of SAN TAPs
"Reduce Troubleshooting From Days To Minutes"

Is your Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure TAP'd? With your most mission critical applications running on your FC SAN and the growing use of virtualization, there has never been a greater need for comprehensive, real-time insight into your SAN infrastructure. Despite attempts by some vendors to provide limited features such as port mirroring, these practices are inadequate as they fail to see lower level interactions or provide full visibility into sessions that exceed bandwidth demands.

With all of the recent advancements in the datacenter, designing a cabling infrastructure that provides visibility into the SAN has remained fairly stagnant...until now.

The revolutionary breakthrough offered by fiber-optic network TAPs (Traffic Access Points) are being broadly adopted by enterprise datacenters across the globe as end users now depend on this inexpensive, non-intrusive and effective way of gaining full performance and utilization visibility of their SAN infrastructures.

Join David Bartoletti, Senior Analyst & Consultant, Taneja Group, Andrew Varley, Business Director of Splice, and Alex D'Anna, Director of Solutions Consulting, Virtual Instrument as they explain how such simple devices have enabled complex IT environments to reduce their SAN troubleshooting times from days to minutes.

When: Thursday, February 17, 2011
Time: 9:00 am PST; 12:00 pm EST; 5:00 pm GMT

In this webinar, we'll examine the keys to SAN visibility and how to:

Implement the right physical access to fibre-based networks
Reduce troubleshooting times from days to minutes
Obtain key perfomance metrics to measure SLAs

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I/O Performance—Solving the Application Storage Bottleneck

With today's storage technology, the capability now exists to significantly increase data throughput by reducing or eliminating I/O wait times, resulting in the highest levels of application performance. This Webinar will provide you with information and real life examples of the latest storage technology. Hear from industry experts how the latest storage technology, DRAM based block storage, can greatly improve your storage performance and data availability. By attending this Webinar you will better understand how to achieve:

• The highest levels of data storage throughput and IOPS (IOs per second)
• High data availability and reliability with no single point of failure
• Significant performance improvements to critical business applications with no changes required to your application or data structures

Jeff Boles is the Senior Analyst and Director of Validation Services at The Taneja Group. Kevin Colton is the Solution Consultant at Kaminario.

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Storage Essentials for SMBs

SMBs have the same fundamental data center and storage needs as their counterparts at larger organizations—efficient infrastructure and smart data management and data protection. But, often have limited IT resources to achieve those goals. But, after years of getting lost in the shuffle,the pressing needs of SMBs and midmarket organizations are finally getting the attention they deserve. No longer are next-generation storage management solutions designed specifically for the needs of the enterprise. Smaller companies can now reap the same benefits as those of a larger organization—and without breaking the bank. However, this implementation of new technologies means changes—change in product, changes in policy, and changes in process. With limited staff and resources, IT pros at all medium-sized businesses could use a heads-up on the potential obstacles to anticipate—and how to overcome them with the least impact to an already overworked team.

Arun Taneja is the Founder and Consulting Analyst of the Taneja Group. W. Curtis Preston is the Executive Editor of TechTarget & Independent Backup Expert. Jon Toigo is the CEO and Managing Principal of Toigo Partners International, and Chairman of the Data Management Institute.