Looking for NAS experts for PAID Focus Group in Sunnyvale,..

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?)

Stealth Start Up NAS appliance company with a clever way to scale NAS
storage to deal with data migration and global name space issue is
looking for NAS admins for a Focus Group in Sunnyvale on April 14th.

Reply to this email with your relevant experience.

Ideal background for participants would be as follows:

Specific primary and near-line storage administrative experience using
hardware from the following vendors: Network Appliance, Spinnaker,
BlueArc, EMC, SUN or Microsoft Windows based filers is a requirement.

Participants must have a thorough understanding of CIFS and NFS and
RAID devices.

Storage environment must have a large number of users/multiple TBs of
NAS storage and have 10 or more NAS devices managed at your location.

Participants must have experience scaling NAS across multiple filers
including name space partitioning and file migration. Participants who
have insights into current methods as well as proposed methods such as
clustered or distributed file systems and to scale NAS with a single
global name space from both incumbent and start up vendors would
strongly be preferred.

Participants with hands on administrative experience with storage
applications experience for snap-shotting, back up and restore,
mirroring, information life cycle management, charge-back, quota
management, storage virtualization and resource management and remote
replication for Disaster Recovery a plus. Home grown scripting tools to
accomplish similar results would be great.

Administrative experience with Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Veritas
NetBackup a plus.

Candidates with access to performance testing facilities and who have
been involved in beta testing new storage technologies in the past will
be given higher priority.

Must be willing to participate in on-site discussion in the evening.

Must be willing to participate in the entire 90 minute discussion.

$150 Honoraria will be given to each participant. Food will be served.