Information Storage and Management v2

Course details

Information Storage and Management (ISM) is the only course of its kind to fill the knowledge gap in understanding varied components of information storage infrastructure in classic and virtual environments. It provides a comprehensive learning on storage technology, which will enable you to make more informed decisions in an increasingly complex IT environment. It builds a strong understanding of underlying storage technologies and prepares you to learn advanced concepts, technologies and products. You will learn about the architectures, features, and benefits of intelligent storage systems; storage networking technologies such as FC-SAN, IP-SAN, NAS, object-based and unified storage; business continuity solutions such as backup and replication; the increasingly critical area of information security and management, and the emerging field of cloud computing.

Course Outline

Module 1: Storage Systems

• Introduction to information storage, virtualization and cloud computing
• Key data center elements
• Compute, application, and storage virtualization
• Disk drive & flash drive components and performance
• RAID
• Intelligent storage system and storage provisioning (including virtual 
• provisioning)

Module 2: Storage Networking Technologies

• Fibre Channel SAN components, FC protocol and operations
• Block level storage virtualization 
• iSCSI and FCIP as IP-SAN solutions 
• Converged networking option - FCoE
• Network Attached Storage (NAS) - components, protocol and operations
• File level storage virtualization
• Object based storage and unified storage platform 

Module 3: Backup, Archive, and Replication

• Business continuity terminologies, planning and solutions
• Clustering and multipathing architecture to avoid single points of failure
• Backup and recovery - methods, targets and topologies
• Data deduplication and backup in virtualized environment
• Fixed content and data archive
• Local replication in classic and virtual environments
• Remote replication in classic and virtual environments
• Three-site remote replication and continuous data protection

Module 4: Cloud Computing 

• Cloud benefits, characteristics
• Services and deployment models
• Cloud infrastructure components
• Cloud migration considerations

Module 5: Securing and Managing Storage Infrastructure 

• Security threats, and countermeasures in various domains 
• Security solutions for FC-SAN, IP-SAN and NAS environments
• Security in virtualized and cloud environments
• Monitoring and managing various information infrastructure components in 
• classic and virtual environments
• Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and storage tiering