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SAN, NAS - Storage Virtualisation State of the Art
Mr. Bob Halem
IBM (2.2C)
Abstract:
In the early 1900s, the growth of the telephone industry was threatened because there was no way to find enough operators to manually connect the rapidly increasing number of subscribers. One analyst calculated that every person between the ages of 18 and 25 would be needed. Today, much the same can be said for the growth of storage. As the amount of storage grows in distributed systems, the need for storage administrators has been growing at almost the same rate. One approach to eliminate this rapid growth of personnel is to provide the servers with greater flexibility in the allocate and utilization of external storage. This session will discuss how that will happen and some interesting new technologies that will make it practical.
Bio:
Bob is currently responsible for technical marketing support for IBM Storage Systems Group Hardware and Software products. His primary focus is on TotalStorage Systems Strategy, the Enterprise Storage Server (SHARK), Tape Storage Subsystems (MagStar) and Storage Area Networks (SAN).
Bob has over thirty-seven years with IBM in a varied range of job assignments and positions including programmer, programming manager, hardware product planner, market support representative, microcode development manager, and program manager. For the last fifteen years, he has served as a Senior Storage Consultant in the Storage Systems Project Office and the Storage Systems Executive Briefing Center. He is an IBM Storage Systems Group representative to various international user groups including SHARE, GUIDE/SHARE Europe, Australasian SHARE/GUIDE(InterAction), and IBM User Group Hong Kong.
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