HP/Works Technical Focus Day

Storage and Virtualisation

HP Reading - 25 February 2003

HP/Works members, colleagues from member organisations, and non-members are most welcome to attend. Please note, members of HP-Interex EMEA, HP-CUO, BITUG and HPCUA are welcome to attend at member rates. All refreshments are included in the price. Please book early to secure your place(s).

The provisional agenda is:

9.30am Registration and coffee

10.00am Introduction

10.05am The New HP Enterprise Storage Roadmap - Simon Brassington, HP

Overview presentation on the current HP roadmaps for Enterprise storage including the future roadmaps for online, nearline and software. The subject matter that I will touch on includes, EVA and XP online storage, ESL and MSL tape libraries. NAS roadmaps and the future of NAS products. Open View Storage Area Manager and the integration of pre merger Compaq software offerings.

11.00am Coffee

11.15am NAS/SAN Fusion - Simon Brassington, HP

Including the idea of a NAS as a gateway to a SAN.

12.15pm Lunch

1.00pm Advances in Network Storage - Network Appliance

During the last year, network attached storage has matured into a commodity product. New advances in disks and networking have brought the advantages of network storage within the reach of the small business user and allowed the larger users to integrate it into the heterogeneous workplace. This presentation reviews the available products and looks toward the future.

2.00pm HP Storage Virtualisation - Nigel Pardoe, HP

This session will give an overview of virtualisation in a storage area network environment. It will look at how HP proposes virtualisation at host, storage and network levels and the benefits this brings in simplifying management, making better use of capacity and reducing total cost of ownership. The session will look in detail at the products that HP uniquely brings to market to provide storage virtualisation.

3.00pm Tea

3.15pm Consolidating our Storage: Why and How? Stories from the front-line.
             - Alan Reed, Geoff Wootton and John Owen, The University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham has recently installed two new HP servers, linked by common storage. Initial requirements led us to choose a NAS option, using HP's NAS 8000 product. Future developments will, however, require SAN functionality. This talk will describe some of the lessons we have learned during the design and implementation stages of the project.

3.45pm Building Disaster Tolerant Infrastructures - Tony Dafranca, HP

Data replication techniques; performance issues, network implications and design trade-offs.

4.45pm (approx) Close

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