Ahead Technical Consultant to address Detroit VMUG on how to use VMware to build a highly available dual-core data center design.
As companies look to increase agility and flexibility when building their Next-Generation data centers, they are also looking at how they can achieve the following:
- Data center disaster avoidance: Proactively move workloads between data centers to avoid natural disasters
- Data center maintenance with zero downtime: Migrate workloads between data centers to provide zero downtime data center maintenance
- Data center workload balancing: Balance data center workloads between multiple data centers to enable effective usage of resources
- Data center migrations: Migrating workloads between data centers with zero downtime
In this session Alex Mattson, Ahead Technical Consultant, will address the highly available Next-Gen data centers. Attendees will learn about:
- how VMware technologies enable you to provide highly available virtual data centers
- how to create virtually spanning data centers
- how to enable pooling of storage resources across synchronous distances
Registration
Register now for this free informative event.
Meeting Date/Time: Thursday, October 6, 2011 from 5:30–8 p.m.
Meeting Location
Wayne RESA (Regional Educational Service Agency)
33500 Van Born Road
Wayne, MI 48184
For more information, contact Richard Merchant, Ahead Senior Account Manager, at Merchant@ThinkAheadIT.com.
Alex Mattson, Ahead Technical Consultant
Since graduating from the University of Illinois, Alex has travelled across the country designing and implementing storage, network, and virtualization solutions. Early in his six-year stint at EMC, he was introduced to VMware—and has been hooked ever since. Today he works in an architecture design capacity for Ahead’s engineering team, building solutions around data center technologies from VMware, Cisco, EMC, and NetApp, among others. His interests include data center and cloud automation, desktop virtualization, and disaster recovery. Alex holds a VMware Certified Advanced Professional—Data Center Design and VCP certification, along with numerous certifications from Cisco and EMC.