Information Storage and Management v3

• Experienced IT professionals, who may not have had exposure to all of the segments of modern storage infrastructure
• Experienced IT professionals managing storage infrastructure and services
• Students and professionals who are looking to pursue a career in the storage industry
• Organization-wide IT teams directly or indirectly responsible for planning, designing, deploying, managing, or leveraging information infrastructure
• Individuals who are seeking EMC Proven Professional Information Storage Associate (EMCISA) certification

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe data center infrastructure and its elements
• Describe third platform technologies - cloud, big data, social, and mobile
• Evaluate various types of intelligent storage systems and their deployment
• Describe software-defined storage
• Evaluate various storage networking technologies and their deployment
• Articulate business continuity and archiving solutions
• Describe various security threats and controls in a storage infrastructure
• Describe key processes for managing a storage infrastructure

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a participant must have a basic understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, networking, and databases

· Participants with experience in specific segments of storage infrastructure would also be able to assimilate the course material

The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.

Module 1: Introduction to Information Storage

 Digital data and its types

Information storage

Key characteristics of data center

Evolution of computing platforms

Module 2: Third Platform Technologies

Cloud computing and its essential characteristics

Cloud services and cloud deployment models

Big data analytics

Social networking and mobile computing

Characteristics of third platform infrastructure

Imperatives for third platform transformation

Module 3: Data Center Environment

Building blocks of a data center

Compute systems and compute virtualization

Software-defined data center

Module 4: Intelligent Storage Systems

Components of an intelligent storage system

Components, addressing, and performance of hard disk drives and solid state drives

RAID

Types of intelligent storage systems

Scale-up and scale-out storage architecture

Module 5: Block-based Storage System

Components of block-based storage system

Storage provisioning and storage tiering

Module 6: File-based Storage System

Components and architecture of NAS

NAS file sharing methods

File-level virtualization and tiering

Module 7: Object-based and Unified Storage

Components of object-based storage device (OSD)

Key features of OSD

Storage and retrieval process in OSD system

Unified storage architecture

Module 8: Software-defined Storage

Attributes of software-defined storage

Architecture of software-defined storage

Functions of the control plane

Software-defined storage extensibility

Module 9: Fibre Channel SAN

Software-defined networking

FC SAN components and architecture

FC SAN topologies, link aggregation, and zoning

Virtualization in FC SAN environment

Module 10: Internet Protocol SAN

• iSCSI protocol, network components, and connectivity
• Link aggregation, switch aggregation, and VLAN
• FCIP protocol, connectivity, and configuration

Module 11: Fibre Channel over Ethernet SAN

• Components of FCoE SAN
• FCoE SAN connectivity
• Converged Enhanced Ethernet
• FCoE architecture

Module 12: Introduction to Business Continuity

• Impact of information unavailability
• Business continuity planning lifecycle
• Eliminating single points of failure
• Application resiliency

Module 13: Backup and Archive

• Backup architecture
• Backup targets and methods
• Data deduplication
• Cloud-based and mobile device backup
• Data archive

Module 14: Replication

• Uses of replication and its characteristics
• Compute-based, storage-based, and network-based replication
• Data migration
• Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Module 15: Securing the Storage Infrastructure

• Information security goals
• Storage security domains
• Threats to a storage infrastructure
• Security controls to protect a storage infrastructure
• Governance, risk, and compliance

Module 16: Managing the Storage Infrastructure

• Storage infrastructure management functions
• Storage infrastructure management processes