Originally posted on February 26, 2010 in meetings

Please join us for the next StudioSysAdmins meeting for the Toronto chapter being sponsored by both HP and Ocarina Networks - Thursday March 11th, 2010.

HP's Storage Solutions for Media and Entertainment are designed to help you regain control of your content without losing your grip on costs will be presented by Andy Steel - HP NAS Canadian Sales Specialist and Todd Acheson - HP NAS Architect.

Learn About: 

1) Manage content availability while increasing utilization
Implementing a virtual storage infrastructure, with data tiering allows you to pool files across distributed and heterogeneous systems.


2) High Performance and/or Archive NAS systems
Increase application performance and create large file archives with x9000 appliances based on the IBRIX file system.

3) HP x9000 Roadmap
Get a look at the 2010 Roadmap and beyond for HP NAS and x9000 products.

Ocarina Networks will also give us a generic presentation on compression and deduplication as well as their plans for end-to-end optimization - Presented by Goutham Rao - CTO.

Goutham Rao is responsible for algorithmic research and design, architectural guidance, and technology vision at Ocarina. He has an MS Computer Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Ocarina he was the CTO of Net 6 and joined Citrix via the acquisition. Goutham has worked as an open source Linux kernel developer AND a key Operating Systems Architect at Intel where he worked on the IA-64 project. At Intel, Goutham worked on various UNIX Kernels, and in particular designed and implemented some key components of Linux's Intel 64-bit architecture.

 
The Meeting...
  After Event Social...
  Location: Starz Animation
Location: The Richmond Rogue
    230 Richmond St, East
Toronto, ON
  284 Richmond St, East
Toronto, ON
  Phone: (416) 660-5059 Phone: (416) 868-0506
         
  Time: 6:00pm to 6:30pm - Meet & Greet + Snacks
Time: 8:30pm to 10:00pm - Drinks & Conversation
    6:30pm to 6:45pm - StudioSysAdmins Update
   
    6:45pm to 8:30pm - Presentation    

We would like to thank both HP and Ocarina Networks for both presenting and sponsoring this event.

Please RSVP to this event early, as space may be limited.