Leveraging the Power of Compute and Storage Grids
Richard Jooss, Senior Manager - Product and Partner Engineering, Network Appliance

As compute and storage resource requirements grow, enterprise IT users are redefining their server and storage infrastructure. An increasingly prevalent trend is to deploy large numbers of small servers and virtualize them, and to deploy modular storage, rather than large frame arrays, to serve core and departmental application workloads. Computing and storage grids are an emerging deployment topology designed to support this horizontal scaling need. Attendees will learn about the usage scenarios for grid computing in engineering test, core test and development, and production environments, and the best practices associated with multi-protocol grid deployments: Flexibly configuring and managing multiple and virtualized host operating environments, Provisioning storage, and Protecting data with advanced technologies such as software-based SAN boot.

Learning Objectives

• Usage scenarios and models for grid computing in engineering test, core test and development, and production environments
• Best practices associated with multi-protocol grid deployments: Flexibly configuring and managing multiple and virtualized host operating environments, Provisioning storage, and Protecting data with advanced technologies such as software-based SAN boot.
• Technology update about emerging storage capabilities associated with thin provisioning, software-based SAN boot, and deployment with blade server environments.