Customer onsite workshop can also be conducted for customers in Lahore, and Islamabad PURPOSE:
This one day face-to-face instructor led class is designed to develop storage technology skills and strategies associated with managing the explosive growth of business data across the enterprise in today's networked economy.

Data Storage Strategy is the long-term direction for storing and managing information. Remember, all data is not created equal and understanding the business value of data is critical for defining the storage strategy. Moreover, buying leading-edge storage products is not always the best option for most businesses, but make sure you do not get caught out as your needs expand.

Moreover, businesses need to be aware of technology directions therefore, a data storage strategy should be based on sound capacity planning procedures and a good knowledge of business guidelines. Storage product that leaves a business locked to a particular supplier should be avoided plus much more that we have covered as a part of this session.

In a nut shell, this workshop is specially designed to enable resources with necessary skills where individuals can identify the mandatory components for developing a reliable storage strategy based on organizational business strategy.

Training will be delivered by an experienced trainer with 25+ years of career experience imparting education and training services both locally and internationally and have served international enterprise technology vendors including IBM, Fujitsu, and ICL. Our instructor holds various industry professional certifications in the space of enterprise servers and storage technologies, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, ITIL, Cloud, Virtualization, Green IT, and a co-author of 10 IBM Redbooks.

The training course flow will be a mix of lectures & classroom discussions so that participants can have a detailed understanding of various components of Cloud Storage technologies discussing different technology scenarios. 

TARGETED AUDIENCE:
This course is intended for resources who:

• Want to start their career as Storage Pre Sales Specialists.
• Want to develop skills as Storage Consultants and Systems Integrators.
• Senior IT Managers who want to refresh their knowledge in storage technologies.
• Technology vendors and their Business Partners.
• End-users to expand their knowledge enabling them to better communicate with their storage vendors during presales cycle, preparing RPFs etc.
• Technology sales people who want to change their profession from other technology discipline to storage sales professionals.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE:
This storage workshop aims to demystify storage technologies and provide substantial insight into the key trends based on storage technology capabilities of today Block, File, Object Storage and Software Defined Storage including Flash storage. This shall help students gain the clarity needed to make more informed and smarter decisions when it comes to building storage strategies and the ways how to perform a better vendor management.

COURSE OUTLINE 

Unit 1 –Information Storage –Demands and Evolution Types of Storage Technologies and Subsystems. Data Center Storage Evolution. Which storage technology to select and why?  Understand Information Storage. Our world – and how we interact with it – is changing. Describe System of Records, System of Engagement and Systems of Interactions. Exponential Data Growth – Some key facts and figures. Understand Mean Time Between Failures –Hard Disk Drives. The Main Storage Dilemma. Race to Zero Latency –Latency plays an important role. Client responses to Performance gap –Following the shortcuts. The Evolution of Storage technologies and future. Meeting the demand for data storage – Cloud Storage Trends.  What is driving the paradigm shift to Cloud Services? Cloud Storage Models, Cloud Storage Types and their applications. What are the negatives to storage cloud?  Top Security Concerns for Cloud-Based Storage Services. 5 Questions you should ask your Cloud Services Provider Top 5 Cloud Storage Security Challenges. Storage demand in a Nut-Shell. Storage Comparison Matrix – Entry to Mid to Enterprise. Change in technological perception in the global community. Knowing the way forward from Data Storage Technology perspective. Unit 2 –Building a Data Storage Strategy Understand Fault Tolerance and Fault Resilience. Some basic steps in developing a storage strategy. Understanding the role of TOGAF? An Open Group Standards. The four essential pillars of TOGAF Architecture Framework and Architecture Development Method. Storage Strategy Defined. Need for Storage Strategy. Responsibility for the Strategy Strategy Contents. Developing the Strategy Building the Storage Strategy. Five components of a data protection strategy. Storage Strategy –Components that you cannot ignore.

Unit 3 -Storage & Data Management Methodologies Undersstanding Data Management. Understanding Data Lifecycle Management. Why Storage Management. Storage Management Challenges. Storage Vs Data Classification. Information Lifecycle Management. ILM –Three Storage Strategies. Data Classification. Hierarchical Storage Management. Understanding Data De-Duplication. Importance of Virtual Tape Library. Unit 4 -Performance –Impact and Measurement Pressures on senior management. Challenges and Needs –Where we stand today? Storage management challenges. The storage dilemma –Apart from Flash Storage Storage types and subsystems. Which storage technology is best? Understanding I/O Performance. Business requirements –Reduce cost, minimize risk and improve services. Concepts behind storage efficiency technologies. Consideration prior investing in new storage solution. IO Performance needs monitoring at every level. Storage –Planning for Performance. Storage Planning and Rotating Media Selection. Understanding Wear Leveling in SSD Technologies. Understand Over Provisioning and Thin Provisioning. Optimizing storage. Storage Performance Troubleshooting Methodology. Understanding your workload and Basic Metrics. About Storage Performance Council. Storage Performance Testing . Types of Storage Performance Testing. Typical Mistakes during storage performance testing. Published Benchmark.

Zero Trust Security Architecture Framework

The Foundation of TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Framework

AIX Performance Monitoring & Management

Understanding & Managing AIX ODM (Object Data Manager)

Security for Power Systems AIX

AIX Software Installation Maintenance & Backup & Restore

Working with Logical Volume Manager & File System Administration

AIX Error Monitoring & System Dump Facility & AIX Scheduling

AIX Security & User Administration