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Dennis Martin likes to include results from the Demartek lab when he speaks at conferences and user group meetings.

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Demartek to Present Unified Storage Networking and I/O Virtualization at SNW in April 2010

11 February 2010

, President of Demartek and Wikibon Storage Mastermind, will present two sessions at the Storage Networking World Conference (SNW) in Orlando, Florida, April 12 - 15, 2010. These sessions are:

The complete conference agenda is available at: www.snwusa.com/agenda.aspx.

Update: 19 April 2010 — Comments on Spring 2010 SNW.


Unified Storage Networking

Unified Storage Networking Session, SNW, April 12, 2010

The leading switch vendors have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure (converged networking), and the adapter vendors are providing new adapters. It sounds good, but what are the ramifications for the storage networking infrastructures you have in place. This session will cover existing technologies that are available now and what is still needed, the key protocols and standards such as Data Center Bridging (DCB), also known as Enhanced Ethernet, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) that will make the unified data center work, the advantages and disadvantages of having an integrated network, and how currently installed storage networks be affected.

In addition, Dennis will include some of the results from his unified network testing with Enhanced Ethernet and FCoE in the Demartek lab.

Learning objectives include:


I/O Virtualization — The Next Virtualization Frontier

Do you use the full bandwidth in all of your server adapters, network interface cards, RAID controllers all the time? Or do you only need peak bandwidth for these adapters some of the time? Would you like to make a rack full of servers use only the storage and network adapters that they actually need, rather than having to put expensive cards in every server? I/O virtualization is emerging as a great way to virtualize your underused adapters across your server infrastructure. In this session, we will define I/O virtualization and how it complements server virtualization. We will discuss extending the PCI Express bus and InfiniBand bus and new standards such as SR-IOV and MR-IOV. We will also discuss how I/O Virtualization compares to technologies such as Fibre Channel NPIV, DCB and FCoE. As is customary, Dennis will discuss results of his early lab testing with these technologies.

Learning objectives include: