Modern Storage Management

Cloud storage providers and anyone developing enterprise data centers have an unprecedented array of new technologies to choose from to build their next-generation environments. These new technologies present more potential permutations to work with, enabling even greater opportunities for optimization.

Adding additional virtualization and acceleration technologies presents more flexibility and options to build a custom configuration, but doing so increases the management challenges exponentially. With the proliferation of different technologies and multiple vendors, standards-based management is more critical than ever to successfully develop, integrate, deploy, and manage systems and storage at scale.

This session will provide an overview of:
- The latest technologies in storage for virtualization, acceleration, and fabrics.
- The organizations delivering standards-based management.
- A discussion of open-source projects delivering value-add using standards-based management.

By now, we all see the opportunity with core cloud storage services. The object storage that seems to underlie everything we do in IT these days. But cloud storage is becoming more than just objects in space -- it's evolving up the stack to include more layers of critical management, security, functionality, and even utility! And of course, most IT vendors are claiming their solutions, whatever they really are, are now also cloud solutions. Overall cloud adoption is still growing, but the very definition of cloud itself is changing too. What does cloud storage really mean today and where is it going?

In this webinar, Mike Matchett, Principal Analyst with Small World Big Data, will look at some key data and cloud storage trends driving our use of the word “cloud”. We'll unpack some new ways to stay in control of hybrid architectures, securing the no-longer centralized data center, and manage edge data intelligence. Users need to stay ahead of the latest trends driving big changes in data storage. How do we handle support for new big AI models (i.e., when every LOB wants their own ChatGPT...), end user expectations for seamless global access to data anywhere, clean data security in a hostile internet, and what the heck is zero trust, really, just between you and me?

Starting today, where should we put our mighty but limited data storage efforts in 2023? Should we still be managing storage, or should the AI be managing it for us?

About the speaker
Mike has been writing and publishing expert IT industry analysis and nuanced market-focused opinions, articles and technology reports for over 17 years. In addition to being widely quoted, you can find his analysis and opinions in publications like SearchStorage, SearchDatacenter, Virtualization Review, InfoStor and Enterprise Systems Journal.

Cloud storage has become incredibly user-friendly, whether you’re an administrator, developer, or end-user, the centralized portal and API tools facilitate quick and efficient operations.

Despite the protections that cloud storage providers have in place, storing data in the cloud increases the attack surface area. Users must take the additional safeguards of protecting root account information, configuring MFA, and using data immutability options.

At the same time, the administrator must oversee all back-end operations that go with maintaining cloud storage and delivering storage services. New storage management tools make it simple to provision storage, forecast capacity trends, and share usage information other users.

This session will explore:
- The cloud storage management policies that protect your data from accidental loss or malicious attack
- How to combat cloud account sprawl
- Monitoring for the bigger picture
- The creation and modification of subaccounts for charge-back or show-back purposes

Most Cloud Service Provider’s use HDDs and Tape to deliver Storage Services, contain CapEx budgets, easily scale their infrastructure and to manage power consumption.

As big and unstructured data becomes more prevalent in society and at the same time data growth is approaching 165 ZB’s by 2025, organizations and CSP’s are grappling with data retention compliance and the most cost-effective architectures to manage and deliver storage services to their users and customers.

Additionally, budgets for IT and operating expenses for power and cooling continue to be challenging for both Data Center Operators as well as CIO’s.

This Session will explore:
- HDD based cloud architectures for scale and cost
- Data Tiering
- Areal Density Growth Strategies

In recent years, cloud backups have become all the rage, and for good reason. Cloud backups solve many of the most pressing challenges associated with conventional backups. Even so, not all cloud backups are created equally, and in some situations it might even be better not to use a cloud backup.

This informative and vendor neutral presentation from best-selling author and expert Brien Posey will explore numerous practical considerations as they relate to cloud backups. In it, you will learn various strategies for keeping your data better protected while also keeping costs in check. A few of the topics of discussion include:

- When you should and shouldn’t back up to the cloud.
- Important features to look for in a cloud backup solution.
- Strategies for meeting your backup SLAs.
- The true cost of cloud backup and restoration.

About the speaker:
Brien Posey is an internationally best-selling technology author and speaker, and a 21x Microsoft MVP. Prior to going freelance, Posey served as CIO for a national chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities, a network engineer for the United States Department of Defense at Fort Knox, and as a network administrator for some of the largest insurance companies in America. In addition to his ongoing work in IT, Posey has been training to be a commercial astronaut since 2015 in preparation to fly on a mission to study polar mesospheric clouds from space.

What happens when ransomware strikes and your last line of defense is recovering from backups?
In this short solution demonstration, see how Druva's Accelerated Ransomware Recovery provides visibility into backup security posture, insight into anomalous data changes in your backups, curated and scanned recoveries of clean data, and last known good versions of all affected files.

See how Druva:
- Provides a single unified management interface for all your backups
- Provides a customized dashboard for backup security posture
- Improves your readiness with insights into relevant security events and unusual data anomalies
- Enhances response with quarantine actions and curated recovery for a quick and clean restoration

Compute express link (CXL) technology is rushing onto the scene with a goal of changing the very nature of computer architecture. Not only does this interface support memory disaggregation, persistent memory, and nonuniform memory architectures (NUMA), but it also is being used to standardize the interface between chiplets, which should improve processor cost/performance while creating more diversity in processor types.

Members of the storage and computing communities must understand CXL if they want to keep up with tomorrow’s most productive computing configurations.

This presentation will begin with a brief CXL tutorial, to explain what it is and why it is needed, and then moves to use cases and the various configurations that the new protocol supports. Attendees will learn:
- Why CXL came into being, and what memory models it supports.
- The problem of “stranded” memory, and how CXL addresses it.
- How CXL benefits the adoption of storage class memory.
- CXL’s use in the UCIe chiplet interface.
- What storage admins must prepare for as CXL rolls out.

About the speaker:
Jim Handy of Objective Analysis has over 35 years in the electronics industry including 20 years as a leading semiconductor and SSD industry analyst. Early in his career he held marketing and design positions at leading semiconductor suppliers including Intel, National Semiconductor, and Infineon. A frequent presenter at trade shows, Mr. Handy is highly respected for his technical depth, accurate forecasts, widespread industry presence and volume of publication. He has written hundreds of market reports, articles for trade journals, and white papers, and is frequently interviewed and quoted in the electronics trade press and other media. He posts blogs at www.TheMemoryGuy.com, and www.TheSSDguy.com.

Cloud storage has become an essential component of many businesses' IT infrastructure. However, storing data in the cloud comes with its own unique set of security challenges. This webinar will cover best practices for ensuring the security of your business data in the cloud. We will discuss topics such as data encryption, access control, network segmentation, software updates, and security audits. We will also examine the risks associated with cloud storage, such as data breaches, data loss, and insider threats. Additionally, we will explore the security measures taken by cloud service providers and how to evaluate their security. Finally, we will examine emerging trends and technologies in cloud storage security. This webinar is suitable for anyone interested in cloud storage security, including IT professionals, business owners, and decision-makers.

Key Takeaways :
- Cloud storage security is essential for protecting your business data from data breaches, data loss, and insider threats.
- Best practices for cloud storage security include data encryption, access control, network segmentation, software updates, and regular security audits.
- Cloud service providers have their own security measures in place, but it's important to evaluate their security and ensure they meet your organization's security requirements.
- Emerging trends and technologies in cloud storage security include serverless computing security and security automation.
- Regularly assessing and updating your cloud storage security measures is important to stay ahead of evolving security threats.

Storage professionals need to be up to date on the most important standards in the industry, especially for storage security. Tune into this webinar from industry expert Paul Kirvan to learn the following:

- Key standards and guidance on storage security
- How to achieve compliance with relevant standards
- Tips on preparing for audit addressing storage security

Attendees will come away from this session better prepared to address the issues associated with storage security standards, compliance with the standards and storage security audit preparation.

About the speaker:
Paul Kirvan, FBCI, CISA is an independent business resilience consultant and technical writer with over 35 years of experience in enterprise risk management and security, business continuity, technology disaster recovery and IT auditing. Mr. Kirvan is a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute (FBCI), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a contributor to TechTarget for over 15 years.

Data is one of the most valuable assets in this world not only for organizations, but also for an individuals. Data plays an important role. In an organization, it can be in the form of client data, financial data, analytical data, and asset data. For individuals, it can be health data, activity data, expense budget sheet, food tracker, and similar others. Data loss or data breach in an organization may result in negative ratings and can impact the organization’s revenue. Tune into this presentation from TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav as she explores:

- Why data storage is so important.
- Data storage (traditional vs. cloud).
- Business risk of not applying data storage security.