Overview

Learn the latest on data storage. This course covers the basics of getting started with IBM Storage. It describes data protection and high availability features. It then goes into the concepts of storage virtualization. It introduces the IBM Storage suite of Software-defined storage products. It covers all our disk, flash, tape products. And finally, it covers our storage networking solutions and introduces the idea of cloud computing as it relates to storage. 

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Audience

Prerequisites

None

Objective

Upon completion of this course you should be able to:

• Recall the essentials of disk storage

• Outline the continuity plans to maintain high availability and data protection in storage solutions

• Summarize the concepts of the storage virtualization

• Differentiate the types of the hybrid and all-flash storage solutions

• Compare the types of the tape storage solutions

• Distinguish between storage connectivity options

• Differentiate between the features of the Storage Suite of software

• Clarify the various cloud storage considerations

Key Topics

Unit 1: Essentials of storage 

Unit 2: Data protection and high availability 

Unit 3: Storage virtualization 

Unit 4: IBM Storage for Primary Block

Unit 5: IBM Storage for Hybrid Cloud

Unit 6: IBM Storage for Data and AI

Unit 7: IBM Storage for Data Resiliency

Unit 8: IBM Tape Storage

Unit 9: IBM Storage SAN Family Overview 

Unit 9: IBM Storage and cloud

Course Outline