Application Acceleration from a Data Storage Perspective and Desktop Virtualization - Cleveland, OH

This event consists of two lectures focusing on application acceleration  using solid state storage and caching and methods of deploying and managing desktops, including virtualization, application streaming and more. The sessions run for approximately an hour and half with lunch served in the middle.

The program is offered for FREE to IT end users.  There is a nominal fee to attend for those who do not work as an end user of information technology.

Class Description for Session I: Application Acceleration
Data storage is just one element in the application delivery ecosystem, but it turns out that it is often the critical performance bottleneck.  A number of new technologies have recently come to market that optimize storage performance.  This session reviews several of these innovations and explains how performance-optimization technologies can be easily integrated into the existing storage infrastructure.

Topics Include:
  

·         Sequential versus random disk I/O

·         Solid state media:  SLC flash, MLC flash, and DRAM

·         Form factors of solid state storage devices

·         SQL database acceleration 

·         MS Exchange acceleration 

·         Accelerating server virtualization platforms

·         File system tiering and acceleration  

·         Dynamically tiered storage in a SAN array

·         Application-level quality of service (QoS)

·         3rd party caching appliances 

·         Solid state storage with deduplication