[NCSA] Reminder - Tonights Meeting: Best Practices and Benefits of Thin Provisioning: Configuring NetApp SAN for Maximum Efficiency

[NC*SA Announcements List - Moderated]

Jeremy LeBlanc, NetApp, Inc.  

Time:      Monday, November 14, 2011, 7:00 - 9:00 PM  
Place:      UNC-TV,RTP, NC 

Abstract: 
      This presentation will explore the considerations for implementing
Thin Provisioning in a SAN environment.
We will discuss the options and monitoring tools available to the administrator
to deploy and maintain the thinly provisioned storage with as little worry as possible. 
Specific topics will include: 
    * How-to and when to use specific options when creating NetApp Flexvols and LUNs 
    * Additive benefits of leveraging advanced efficiency features 
    * Compounding effect of thin deployments on Virtual and Dev/Test workloads 
    * Host-specific tools and considerations for improving SAN efficiency 
    * Competitive landscape 
    * Question and Answer Free-for-All   


Biography: 
      Jeremy LeBlanc is an Enterprise Systems Engineer for NetApp
based in RTP, NC. He joined NetApp in June of 2008 as a SAN Product and
Partner Engineer before assuming his current role in November of
2010. Jeremy attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
from 1992-1996. He began his career in technology as a part-time
AS/400 Systems Administrator for the radiology department of the
Worcester, MA Memorial Hospital system.
In 1996, he moved permanently into the technology provider/vendor space as
an implementation and support specialist with Transition Systems
Inc., a healthcare software provider in Boston, MA.
Upon leaving TSI, Jeremy became a development, implementation and support
jack-of-all-trades for the banking software start-up, Politzer &
Haney, Inc. of Newton, MA. In January of 1999, he joined EMC
as a Subject Matter Expert for AS400/iSeries integration with EMC
storage platforms -- eventually serving as the Global Practice Manager of
iSeries Solutions for EMC Professional Services. In 2004, Jeremy became an Operations
Delivery Manager in EMC's newly formed Storage Managed Services
business unit. In this role he architected (and occasionally
implemented) SAN and NAS solutions to meet customer defined
service level requirements and assembled and managed the teams
of administrative resources for the on-going delivery and support
of those environments. After seven years with EMC, and prior to
relocating to North Carolina to join NetApp, Jeremy was a Solutions
Architect for Corporate Technologies Inc., Burlington, MA -- a
systems integrator with a broad technology portfolio. In that
role he designed large and small customer data center solutions --
encompassing staffing projects to software to storage and everything
in-between. 

A refugee from New England's snowy winters and
generally unpleasant weather, Jeremy now makes his home in Holly
Springs, NC with his wife Kate and their two children, Amelia
(age 7) and Calvin (age 4).