SQLBits Slide Deck

Here is my provisional slide deck for my SQLBits 9 session:
SQL Storage for the Real World:

Any feedback will be appreciated!
I will be presenting in the Aintree room, on Saturday, at 16:00 - hope to see you there!

SQLBits Prep...

An overview of what I’ll be covering in my SQLBits session

I have pretty much finished up my slides for my session at SQLBits, and now I’m going over the content I want to discuss for each slide. To give you some idea of what I’m going to discuss, here is the summary page from the session:

• Requirements
• Storage concepts
• Storage options and priorities
• SAN / DAS
• HA / DR implications
• Decide on a storage strategy
• General guidance

It feels fairly easy to talk about the storage concepts and technologies for ages on end, but the problem is that it can come across as a little dry. I did a quick run through with my team last week and I nearly put some of them to sleep. So this week and next is all about making the content interesting!


I was originally going to avoid using vendor names and naming products, but then the whole discussion becomes very theoretical and difficult to relate to. Therefore I’m going to try to be fair and balanced with everyone I discuss and not mention any products that I really don’t like...


I promise to make the session as informative and interesting as possible!

The reason for my silence is...

My submission for the SQLBits 9 conference (Query across the Mersey) has been accepted!!!
Been spending a lot of time working on my presentation, so hopefully it will go well!

I have never presented at a conference before, so I'm a little anxious but also very excited at the prospect!
My session is the last session on Saturday (community day), so if you can make it I would be most grateful!
It is titled: SQL Storage for the real world.


If it goes well, I will expand it into a series of articles here on my blog.

More info on the conference:
http://sqlbits.com/default.aspx

And this is what I was talking about...

In my previous entry I mentioned that you could build a SAN that performed better and cost less than your commercial SANs out there. Now I'm not going to make light of doing so, but here is an article to validate what I was trying to say:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/nexenta_vmworld_2011/

"Cheap and cheerful storage from Nexenta matched EMC and NetApp's multi-million-dollar systems in VMworld 2011's Hands On Lab, and took up some of the slack from its rivals when difficulties arose on the first day. EMC and NetApp have cooly brushed off Nexenta's claims it outperformed them."

Really good to see some competition out there, as well as some proof that there isn't too much magic underneath the SAN covers...