Today's post is from Denny Cherry, who will be presenting Storage and Virtualization for the DBA - you can find more about his session here: http://sqlpass.eventpoint.com/topic/details/DBA491P.

Is there an audience that would benefit especially from this session?
All DBAs that work in companies where they don’t make the storage decisions.

After having attended your seminar, what are two or three things that an attendee will be able to take back to the office and put to use right away?

• DBAs will have a better understanding of the storage solutions that their companies have purchased.
• DBAs will be able to bridge the communications gap between storage/system admins and the DBA team.
• The attendees will have a better understanding of the advanced features which are present within their storage arrays to reduce costs and storage requirements for second and third level systems (dev, qa, stage, etc).

What background should attendees ideally have to be fully prepared for your seminar?
A general understanding of storage would be nice, but none is required.

What experience are you, as a speaker, bringing to this session?
I’ve been a product storage administrator for 5 years at three different companies and I can talk intelligently about various different storage solutions.

You can register for the 2010 PASS Summit here: http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/na2010/Registration.aspx

See you in November!