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EMC Proven Professional Roundup Week Ending November 24, 2010

gminks — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:38:22 +0000

This blog is cross-posted from the EMC Proven Professional Community on the EMC Community Network (ECN).

Here in the States, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is pretty much this week’s Friday. So everyone gets the bonus of an early EMC Proven Professional Roundup! Here are some of the highlights from the past week in the Proven Professional Community:

New exam building workshop/review dates are posted

If you are a certified Proven Professional, the schedule is posted through April.

Use this link to troubleshoot access problems.

New EMC Academic Alliance University Spotlight

November’s University Spotlight is on Ball State University. Learn how Ball State University prepares Master’s candidates to face the challenges of managing data – using the EMC Information and Management course.

Are any of you Ball State University students or alumni?

Blogs of interest to Proven Professionals

Cloud
- Chuck Hollis talks about the challenging transition ahead of us as we move to real cloud environments
- Dustin Smith of the Exchange in the Private Cloud blogs about a white paper that shows how to deploy Exchange on an Iomega IX12
Virtualization
- Gregg of EMC Consulting posted a HUGE All Things Virtual roundup
- Virtual Winfrastructure has links to three new EMC solutions docs for Microsoft Hyper-V
Steve Todd blogs about his time at the RSA Archer roadshow <– good read if you are interested in IT governance
Certification Exams
- I announced on my blog I’m planning to take the E20-001. Who wants to help me study?
- Jas Dhaliwal blogged about his experience with the VCAP-DCD datacenter design course & exam

What were you up to this week?

It’s almost December everyone! If you are studying to take an exam this quarter — its crunch time! Make sure you let the community know if you need some help or encouragement.

That’s all I have for this week. Keep safe, and we’ll do it again next week!

EMC Education Webcast: Managing Information in challenging economic times

gminks — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:22:41 +0000

Next week EMC Education will present a free webcast about managing information in challenging economic times. So why is this something you should consider attending?

Background

For the last several years, my organization at EMC has conducted a survey of storage managers and professionals about the challenges facing people that manage the world’s information. Every year our executives present the findings from the survey at EMC World.

Findings

Storage managers marked the lack of skilled storage professionals as one of their pain points this year. Additionally, managers feel that only about 30 percent of their teams are properly skilled to carry out their responsibilities.

Here’s my question: if we have these knowledge gaps in the physical world of information and storage management, what is going to happen when we move this into the cloud? It seems to me that having a strong understanding of how the physical environments work is going to be a necessity once we start virtualizing everything.

Could lack of skilled professionals be a barrier to private cloud adoption?

I’m really proud of my organization for measuring this gap, and putting together programs to train people to address this problem. We have an open storage curriculum, our Academic Alliance, and even a vendor neutral book on Storage and Information Management.

Sign up for the Webcast!

If you missed EMC World, this is your chance to hear more about this study. Here is how to sign up for the event:

Date: June 26, 2009

Time: 11 AM Eastern

Presenters: Alok Shrivastava, Senior Director, EMC Education Services and Joe Milardo, Director, EMC Education Services

Event Registration

Visit the Proven community for a sneak preview of new EMC Education book: “Information and Storage Management”

gminks — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:08:05 +0000

My organization has written a book about Information and Storage Management, and we’re previewing it over in the EMC Proven Professional community. The book hasn’t been released yet, so the only place to get a little sneak peek of it right now is to visit the Industry Readiness section of the Proven community.

I’ve written before about the importance of storage education, and really its more than just storage education. Where are we going to find workers trained in end-to-end management of information systems? Who is teaching folks coming out of school topics such as:

Challenges and solutions for data storage and data management
Intelligent storage systems
Storage networking (FC-SAN, IP-SAN, NAS)
Backup, recovery, and archive (including CAS)
Business continuity and disaster recovery
Storage security and virtualization
Managing and monitoring the storage infrastructure

That’s what this book is all about. I know I would have LOVED an end-to-end book like this when I came to EMC straight out of college. How about you?