Introduction to Storage

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Introduction to Storage

Course code: SS01G

Duration: 3 Days

Course Description:

Data is growing faster in massive stages than ever before. New data is created every second by big data analytics, mobile devices, and social applications. At the rate which data has increased, businesses of all sizes are faced with challenges like capacity growth, performance impact, and day-to-day management to maintain and retain the accuracy of data in either the data centers or the cloud.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course you should be able to:
•    Recall the essentials of disk storage
•    Outline the continuity plans to maintain high availability and data protection in storage solutions
•    Restate the concepts of the storage virtualization
•    Differentiate the types of the hybrid and all-flash storage solutions
•    Compare the types of the tape storage solutions
•    Distinguish between storage connectivity options
•    Differentiate between the features of the Spectrum Storage Suite of software
•    Clarify the various cloud storage considerations

Intended Audience:

Participants of this course will include personnel who have the desire to learn about storage and IBM related storage products.

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Essentials of storage 
Unit 2: Data protection and high availability 
Unit 3: Storage virtualization 
Unit 4: IBM Spectrum Storage - SDS 
Unit 5: IBM Spectrum Storage - management and protection 
Unit 6: IBM Storage disk and flash based systems
Unit 7: IBM Storage tape systems 
Unit 8: IBM Storage SAN family overview 
Unit 9: IBM Storage and cloud