SNW Highlights – SNIA Tutorials

Well it’s already the second Tuesday in October, and Fall SNW is in full swing -- this time in Phoenix, Arizona.  The perennial high point of SNW for me, and for many of the IT professionals I talk to at the show, is the peer-reviewed vendor-neutral SNIA tutorial content.  I believe it’s unmatched anywhere in the industry.

 Over the years, these presentations have come to attract some of the best technical presenters in the industry, and this year was no different.  Ratings are consistently high, and competition for slots is intense.

 This Fall, NetApp was well represented, with tutorial presentations by several of our industry participants:

·      Technologies for Green Storage -- Dr. Alan Yoder, Chair SNIA Technical Council

·      Server and Storage Consolidation with iSCSI Arrays -- yours truly, SNIA Vice-Chair, with Suzanne Morgan, Vice-Chair Ethernet Storage Forum

·      Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond -- Jason Iehl, Chair SNIA Data Protection Initiative

·      pNFS, Parallel Storage for Grid and Enterprise Computing -- Joshua Konkle, Co-chair NFS Special Interest Group, Ethernet Storage Forum

·      Ideal Application for IP SANs -- Jason Blosil with Gary Gumanow, Co-chairs iSCSI Special Interest Group, Ethernet Storage Forum

 All of the tutorials are available online from the SNIA Tutorials web page, regardless of whether you attended the show or not.  If you can find the time I’d strongly encourage you to check them out.