Join Dhiva Navaratnam and Saeid Yazdan for an overview of EMC’s Multi-protocol Celerra Unified Storage platform, including a demo of the new Unisphere Management Software and new features in Flare 30 - FASTCache and FAST (Sub-LUN Fully Automated Storage Tiering)

EMC’s Celerra Unified Storage platform is a dedicated Network Server optimized for File and Block access. Topics covered in this session will include;

• Architecture and Connectivity options (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel and FCoE)
•  Unisphere Management Software(replacing Navisphere Manager and Celerra Manager), a single plane of glass management software allowing users to view, monitor, manage and provision multiple EMC Unified Storage systems from one management console.
• Improve Performance with FASTCache – Up to 2TB of additional read/write cache using SSD Drive technology
• Improve Efficiency and reduce cost  with FAST – Policy based Block level Fully Automated Storage Tiering (ie: sub-LUN FAST)
• Thin LUNs and Block Level Compression (reduce disk space requirements)
• VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

TGIF@ScalarLabs is an interactive monthly session for a technical audience.

By attending you will learn about how thecombination of technologies can make your life easier:

• snapshot and replication tools can increase your productivity and empower end users
• virtualization will enable you to better serve your user and business stakeholders
• squeeze the most performance out of the WAN bandwidth you already have
• getting more storage bang for your buck
• using 10GB and converged networks to reduce your cabling headache
• getting the most out of the network you are stuck with
• why using multiple tools for backup recovery archiving and dedupe isn't the only option
• figuring out where your security issues are.TGIF@ScalarLabs is an interactive monthly session for a technical audience.

As a systems, networking or storage professional, you are obligated to meet rapidly increasing capacity and reliability requirements, while minimizing complexity, and simplifying management. And you must do so in a business environment where shrinking IT budgets are forcing you to do more with less.

By attending these sessions you will see how your peers are solving their toughest issues while saving time and money.