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 Dates & Times

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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Register 07/07/2025 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT
Register 08/11/2025 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT
Register 10/13/2025 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT
Register 11/10/2025 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT
Register 01/05/2026 10:00AM - 6:00PM Online VILT