[NCSA] NCSA DECEMBER MEETING - VOTING FOR OFFICERS - SPEAKER ROB BRITTAIN - DYNAMIX - IBM PARTNER

[NC*SA Announcements List - Moderated]

NCSA TEAM,

Topic: IBM XIV Storage System
Speaker: Rob Brittain
Date: Monday, December 13, 2010
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Place: 
Shodor Education Foundation (note location change!)
Durham, NC
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Speaker BIO:

Rob Brittain is the XIV Solutions Architect for the Dynamix Group, a Premier IBM Business Partner focused on the Southeast.  Rob recently joined Dynamix after leading the technical rollout of XIV in Florida and Puerto Rico for IBM for the past three years.  Rob also spent two years at EMC as an Advisory Technology Consultant.  In addition to focusing on storage, Rob’s previous experience also includes a variety of positions such as Oracle DBA, Unix Team Lead, Sr. Systems Architect, and Infrastructure Director for The Stanley Works, Eckerd Corporation, and Vulcan Materials.

Topic:  

XIV - Simple, Easy Enterprise Storage

The IBM XIV Storage System integrates the latest technology advances and an innovative design to deliver a grid-based storage system in an extremely easy-to-manage environment. It is a fully scalable, high-end system that delivers an excellent TCO-benefit ratio.  XIV technology translates into a totally new experience in storage management. It achieves this breakthrough on several fronts and by numerous means:

Performance – Innovatively using mass parallelism, a unique caching design, and perfect load-balancing, the XIV system delivers outstanding performance and maintains consistent high performance through any failure
Reliability – The system's grid architecture and revolutionary redundancy scheme immunize against any single failure and greatly reduce double-failure risk
Single-architecture storage – The XIV system delivers first-class performance, reliability and features, at low TCO, eliminating the need for tiered storage management
High density drives for enterprise – The XIV system extracts high-end performance from enterprise-class, very high density slower rotation (VHDSR) drives while granting its users their cost, density and power savings benefits
Snapshots – The XIV system combines revolutionary replication technology with huge CPU and cache power to offer endless differential snapshots with performance intact
Thin provisioning – The XIV system allocates physical disk space per actual storage used rather than per storage space defined, reducing capital and operational costs
100% standard components – The XIV system runs entirely on off-the-shelf hardware, such as standard Intel-based servers and gigabit Ethernet switches, offering an exceptionally cost-effective and future-proof solution
Grid architecture – Built from a grid of components connected via any-to-any topology, the XIV system offers exceptional scalability, performance and reliability
True virtualization built-in – The XIV system separates logical and physical entities, and applies all volume to all disks, for top performance and easy management