Simplifying the Management of Mixed Workloads

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IT managers are faced with explosive data growth and constrained budgets. Juggling storage for a mix of workloads such as large images, document management, streaming video, email, databases, and virtual machines is a daunting task. With each workload driving differing requirements around performance and capacity growth, can converging multiple data types and applications onto a single storage system save you time and money? Or will you compromise flexibility and performance?

Join this webinar, featuring Randy Kerns, senior strategist at Evaluator Group, to learn what’s required of a storage system to ensure it’s up to the task of managing mixed workloads. You’ll learn:

• What to look for in a storage system you intend to use for a variety of applications
• Technology advances to simplify storage provisioning for IT staff in mixed workload environments
• How to achieve predictable high performance for workloads that are consolidated

Register today to hear from the Evaluator Group and Starboard Storage Systems on the latest innovations around operational efficiency and price/performance.

 

Speakers:

Randy Kerns

In his role as Senior Strategist at Evaluator Group, Randy Kerns brings expertise that ranges from virtualization everywhere to very long term archive. He draws from over 35 years in the computer industry helping storage companies design and develop storage system products for their markets as well as advising technical professionals on how to build the best storage infrastructures to streamline their business processes.
Prior to joining Evaluator Group, Randy served as CTO for ProStor. Prior to ProStor, he was vice president of storage strategy and planning at Sun Microsystems; led engineering organization in designing disk and tape systems for mainframe attachment at IBM and StorageTek; he designed disk systems for attachment to open systems and proprietary computer platforms at Fujitsu and Tandem Computers; and he developed tape and disk systems for two VC-backed companies.

An educator and presenter, Randy Kerns has written numerous industry articles and papers and is the author of two books. He also contributes regularly to the TechTarget blog, Storage Soup.

 

Lee Johns

Lee is the VP of Product Management for Starboard Storage Systems. Lee has over 20 years of experience in business and product management in the technology industry, where he has specialized in IT convergence. A native of the UK, Lee was previously Director of Product Marketing for Storage at Hewlett Packard (HP). In this role he was responsible for bringing to market the entire portfolio of HP storage products including HP 3PAR, LeftHand, EVA, MSA, IBRIX and StoreOnce deduplication. Lee has also held Director positions for industry leading server and software products, including Compaq ProLiant Servers, HP BladeSystem, and HP Systems Insight Manager. You can find Lee commenting on the storage industry on twitter as @StorageOlogist.