Security Bulletin: External vs. Internal Storage: Which is Right for Me? — HelpSystems

Over the last five years, the adoption of storage area networks or SAN technology for IBM i has increased by 15%. This begs the question: how do you evaluate whether external storage is right for your IBM i on Power environment?

Join this webinar where our panel of technology experts discuss the reasons why many organizations are taking advantage of SAN technology for virtualization, high availability, backup management, and more.

We’ll share stories of successful SAN storage implementations—along with some that didn’t go so well. You’ll learn the most important things to consider while doing your SAN due diligence, including:

• Performance and space

• Virtualization and elasticity

• System availability and backups

• Cost

We’ll also demonstrate how you can analyze the before and after performance results using Performance Navigator for IBM i, as well as how to use Robot Monitor to monitor the health of your Power environment and storage availability in real time.

Chuck Losinski

Director of Technical Solutions, HelpSystems

Chuck Losinski, Director of Technical Solutions for the Robot product line, has been with HelpSystems for nearly 20 years. He has over 30 years of experience in IT, including 25+ years on the IBM i platform.

Chuck's background covers a wide variety of technical responsibilities, involving system implementation, programming, operations, and support. He is certified as an IBM System Administrator and as a HelpSystems Robot Certified Specialist.

Chuck has helped numerous customers automate business applications from Infor, Oracle JD Edwards, HBOC, RxClaim, Infinium, Fiserv, Jack Henry, and more. Currently he is the co-president of the local IBM i user group, QUSER.

Tom Komadowski

DevOps Engineer

Tom Komadowski has over 30 years of experience in IT, including 25+ years on the IBM i platform. His background covers a wide variety of technical responsibilities, involving network administration, programming, operations, and support. He is certified as an IBM Certified System Administrator.

Randy Watson

HelpSystems

A 50-year IT veteran, Randy Watson has spent the last two decades helping IBM, IBM business partners, and customers manage and analyze performance and capacity on the Power Systems platform for IBM i, AIX, VIOS, and Linux. Most recently, he added analyzing AI/ML Power environments by monitory GPU metrics.

Robert Jenkins

IBM

Robert Jenkins has been designing and managing system solutions for industry-leading companies for over 15 years. He has extensive knowledge of Power servers, IBM storage, fiber channel, and the virtualization stack. Robert’s solution successes have consistently focused on system reliability, flexibility, and efficiency.