Skill Set Area

Applicable Technologies and Topics

Power, Cooling, Energy Efficiency, floor space and environmental green storage and data center I/O topics

Performance, power and energy consumption, electric power generating and transmission (G&T), alternative fuel and data center power, UPS and backup power, power efficiency and effectiveness, RoHS, WEEE, benchmarking, energy star, EPA, metrics and measurements

BC, DR and Data Protection, Storage Management and Software

Backup, Continuous data protection (CDP), snapshot, point-in-time (PIT) copy, RAID, CDP, mirroring and replication (local and remote), clustering, Snapshot, tape, hardware, software, optical, archiving, CAS and object storage, BC and DR planning, testing, ediscovery, training, polices and practices. SRM, data classification, Search, Capacity and Performance Planning, Change Management.

Storage devices

RAID, SSD, VTL, VTS, Optical Storage, Disk, Tape, Fixed Content, SAN, NAS, CAS, Virtualization, clustered, tiered storage and grid.

Networking and storage interfaces

Fibre Channel (FC), Ethernet, FICON, ESCON, SCSI, SAS, SATA, IP, iSCSI, PCI, DWDM, SONET/SDH, iFCP, FCIP, Optical Networks, InfiniBand, LAN, MAN, WAN, SAN, POTS & PANS, WAFS, NAS, CAS, Switches, Directors, Routers, Channel extenders, HBAs.

Performance and Capacity Planning

Tuning, monitoring, server and storage resource monitoring (SRM), IT resource management (IRM), modeling, forecasting, benchmarking, configuration, technology assessment, acquisition, configuration, benchmarking, HVAC, green and environmental, power and cooling topics for the data center.

Technology management (applications, servers, storage, networking)

Data center design and review, budgeting, service level (SLA), ILM, classification and characterization, change control, servers, storage, file systems, operating systems, storage management tools, storage software, security, encryption, environmental and physical infrastructure items, email, database, RFI, RFP, RFQ.