Meetings

RAID Storage / SCSI and Fibre Channel

Greg Schulz, MTI

Tuesday, July 28, 7:00-9:00 pm
College of DuPage Room K-161

Abstract

This meeting will consist of two 45 minute discussions. The first will be "What to Look for When Considering RAID Storage" which will cover: performance, availability, scalability, redundancy, cross platform/multi-platform connectivity along with compatibility issues with RAID solutions.

The second discussion will be "SCSI and Fibre Channel: Compare and Contrast" which will profile the two interface technologies: where they are today, where they will be going in the future, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. These presentations were done at InfoStor'98 in San Jose by Greg, which were considered two of the better presentations at this conference.

Speaker Bio

Greg brings over 17 years systems experience ranging from PCs, Open Systems, Mainframes and most everything in between. Greg has worked with applications including transportation, financial, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, telco, and utilities. Greg has worked as a programmer, analyst, capacity planner, storage consultant and has a masters in software engineering. Greg has spoken at numerous conferences, and has had material published in several journals. Greg works closely with customers developing high performance, highly available I/O and storage solutions for mission critical and enterprise applications including OLTP and data warehouse.

Greg has presented at Server I/O, InforStor, SURF, ATT/NCR Conference, DECUS and is currently scheduled for the Fibre Channel Technology Conference in San Jose in September, UniForum in Chicago during August, and several other pending engagements. Greg has had material published in Digital Journal, Sys. Admin. Journal, and Computer Technology Review. This is in addition to regular speaking engagements and presentations with customers, industry and financial analysts.

Getting to the meeting

The next meeting of UniForum Chicago will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 PM on Tuesday, July 28, 1998 at the College of DuPage. The address of the meeting facility is:

        College of DuPage
        Building K, Rm 161
        22nd and Lambert
        Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599

Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56). Butterfield West to Lambert Rd. Lambert Rd North to 22nd St. Turn left and look for lot 10 on the left side of 22nd St. Walk to building K. Room 161 is on the first floor, on the east side of the building.

All UniForum Chicago general meetings are open to the public free of charge.

Contact Michael Potter at (630) 960-0133 x615 for additional information.