COURSE OBJECTIVE:
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Describe modern technologies driving digital transformation – cloud, big data, IoT, and machine learning
• Describe modern data center infrastructure and its elements
• Explain intelligent storage systems and their types (file, block, and object)
• Evaluate various storage networking technologies and their deployment
• Describe software-defined storage and networking
• Articulate business continuity and data protection solutions (replication, backup, and archiving)
• Describe storage infrastructure security and management processes
TARGET AUDIENCE:
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 Proven Professional Information Storage Associate certification
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
• 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
COURSE CONTENT:
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives. The following focus areas are included in this course:
Module 1: Introduction to Information Storage
• Digital data and its types
• Information storage
• Key characteristics of data center
• Driving digital transformation
Module 2: Modern Technologies Driving Digital Transformation
• Cloud computing and its essential characteristics
• Cloud services and cloud deployment models
• Big data analytics
• Internet of Things and mobile computing
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Module 3: Modern Data Center Environment
• Compute, storage, and networking
• Application services
• Software-defined data center
• Modern data center infrastructure architecture
Module 4: Intelligent Storage Systems
• Components of an intelligent storage system
• 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
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