Dell - Information Storage and Management v5
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Course Overview
This unique course provides a comprehensive mastery of the various storage infrastructure components and options in a modern data center environment. Participants will learn to apply storage-related technologies in a fast changing and complex IT environment due to the adoption of new technologies such as cloud, edge computing, Big Data, IoT, AI/ML, and 5G).
This course covers intelligent storage systems, networking technologies business continuity solutions, information security, and storage infrastructure management. The course content takes an open-approach to describe all the concepts and technologies, which are further illustrated and reinforced with Dell product examples.
Who Should Attend
- Experienced IT professionals directly managing storage infrastructure
- IT professionals seeking to better understand the role of storage infrastructure in the modern data center
- Students and professionals considering a career in the storage industry
- Organization-wide IT teams responsible for planning, designing, deploying, managing, or leveraging storage infrastructure
- Individuals whare seeking Dell Technologies Proven Professional Information Storage and Management associate-level certification
Course Objectives
- Describe business drivers of digital transformation.
- Describe modern data center infrastructure and its elements.
- Explain intelligent storage systems and their types.
- Evaluate various storage networking technologies and approaches.
- Describe software-defined storage and networking.
- Articulate business continuity and data protection solutions (replication, backup, migration, and archiving).
- Describe storage infrastructure security and management processes.
Course Outline
Introduction to Information Storage
- Data and information
- Key characteristics of a data center
- Business drivers of digital transformation
Business Drivers of Digital Transformation
- Cloud Computing
- Big Data and AI/ML
- IoT, Edge Computing, and 5G
Modern Data Center Environment
- Types of compute system, hypervisor, VM, and containers
- Applications, types of storage and network
- Software-defined Data Center
- Modern Data Center Architecture, CI/HCI
Intelligent Storage Systems
- Types and components of intelligent storage systems
- RAID
- Storage provisioning and tiering
Block, File, and Object-based Storage System
- Block storage system components
- Scale-up and Scale-out NAS
- Features and components of Object storage system
- Unified storage system
Storage Area Network – FC SAN
- FC SAN Architecture
- FC topologies and zoning
- SAN virtualization
IP SAN, FCoE, and NVMe-oF
- iSCSI components, protocol stack, and VLAN
- FCIP connectivity, protocol stack, and FCoE
- NVMe-oF
Software Defined Storage and Network
- Key attributes of SDS, SDS architecture
- SDN architecture, benefits
Business Continuity
- Business continuity overview
- Fault tolerant IT infrastructure
Data Protection
- Data replication
- Backup and recovery
- Data deduplication
- Data archiving and migration
Storage Infrastructure Security
- Introduction to information security
- Storage security domains and threats
- Key security controls
Storage Infrastructure Management
- Introduction to storage management
- Operations management
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Class times are listed Eastern time
This is a 5-day class
Price : $3,125.00
NERCOMP Price : $2,968.75
Available Class Dates
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07/07/2025 |
10:00AM - 6:00PM |
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08/11/2025 |
10:00AM - 6:00PM |
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10/13/2025 |
10:00AM - 6:00PM |
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11/10/2025 |
10:00AM - 6:00PM |
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01/05/2026 |
10:00AM - 6:00PM |
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