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Webcasts for Pre-Conference Seminars

If you've read the abstracts but need more information before committing to a pre-conference seminar, register for one of the following Webcasts:

“EVA Management Utilities, Techniques, Tips and Tricks – A “Sneak Peek” Webcast”
Gary McCready, JRI-America
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This Webcast and seminar are designed for the storage administrator who has already started managing their HP EVA environment but would like to use the various utilities that can make their EVA management more effective and productive. The Webcast will also cover a variety of documented and undocumented tools and techniques, including what you may request from your HP support organization. See more on this topic by registering for the full-day seminar to be held on June 16, 2008 prior to HP Technology Forum & Expo 2008.

"Using OpenVMS Clusters for Disaster Tolerance – A “Sneak Peek” Webcast"
Keith Parris, HP
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Learn how to use OpenVMS Cluster technology to provide disaster tolerance for the IT operations of a business, where disaster tolerance is defined as the ability to continue operating, uninterrupted and without data loss, despite a disaster to the extent that it causes loss of an entire datacenter site.  This webcast and seminar are aimed at assisting those who are considering or planning to implement a disaster-tolerant OpenVMS cluster or those who have one in place and need to know more about operating and managing it. See more on this topic by registering for this full day seminar to be held on June 16, 2008 prior to HP Technology Forum & Expo 2008!

“A Survey of Virtualization Technologies – A “Sneak Peek Webcast”
Ken Moreau, HP
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This seminar surveys the virtualization technologies available in the industry today, including servers, storage and networking. Server virtualization includes hard partitioning, soft (virtual) partitioning, micro-partitioning and resource partitioning. Storage partitioning includes comparing host-based and storage-based RAID, a discussion of multi-pathing and redundant components across the entire path from the host to the disk, data management across storage tiering, storage virtualization inside a single cabinet and between cabinets, as well as shared file system virtualization. Network virtualization includes subnetting, a discussion of multi-pathing and redundant components, namespace management and address failover.  During this web-cast, we will discuss micro-partitioning, comparing the different technologies available from Citrix Xen, EMC VMware, HP Virtual Machine, IBM SPLpars, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat Xen, Sun Microsystems xVM and Parallels (SWsoft) Virtuozzo.