Information Storage and Management v4

Course Overview

Information Storage and Management (ISM) is a unique course that provides a comprehensive understanding of the various storage infrastructure components in data center environments. It enables participants to make informed decisions on storage-related technologies in an increasingly complex IT environment, which is fast changing with the adoption of software-defined infrastructure management and third platform technologies (cloud, Big Data, social, and mobile technologies). It provides a strong understanding of storage technologies and prepares participants for advanced concepts, technologies, and processes. Participants will learn the architectures, features, and benefits of intelligent storage systems including block-based, file-based, object-based, and unified storage; software-defined storage; storage networking technologies such as FC SAN, IP SAN, and FCoE SAN; business continuity solutions such as backup and replication; the highly-critical area of information security; and storage infrastructure management. This course takes an open-approach to describe all the concepts and technologies, which are further illustrated and reinforced with EMC-related product examples.

Target Audience

Experienced IT professionals, who may not have had exposure to all of the segments of modern storage infrastructure
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• 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

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will 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

Course Content

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

Module 6: Fibre Channel SAN

• FC SAN Overview
• FC architecture
• FC topology and zoning
• SAN Virtualization

Module 7: IP and FCoE SAN

• Overview of TCP/IP
• IP SAN overview
• iSCSI
• FCIP
• FCoE

Module 8: File-based and Object-based Storage System

• NAS components and architecture
• File-level virtualization and tiering
• Object-based and unified storage

Module 9: Software-Defined Storage and Networking

• Software-defined storage
• Software-defined networking

Module 10: Introduction to Business Continuity

• Business continuity overview
• Fault tolerance IT Infrastructure

Module 11: Data Protection Solutions

• Replication
• Backup and recovery
• Data deduplication
• Data archiving
• Migration

Module 12: Storage Infrastructure Security

• Introduction to Information Security
• Storage security domains and threats
• Key security controls

Module 13: Storage Infrastructure Management

• Introduction to storage infrastructure management
• Operations management
  

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