Storage technology specialists need to have a product line exposure or certification in various storage technologies and also have a good grasp over emerging technologies like cloud computing, big data and virtualization so as to continually simplify the storage infrastructure and improve its performance
Among enterprises, the importance of tapping various data channels be it social, cloud, mobile, analytics or internet, is emerging as a necessity to keep the business competitive and ahead of peers.
A recent IDC report corroborates that over the next decade, the amount of information that would have to be managed by enterprise datacenters is set to grow by a factor of 50 and the number of files the datacenter will have to deal with will grow by a factor of 75 at least. This has forced enterprises to rethink their storage management strategies and hire the best domain specialists who are experts in storage technolgies.
Profile of a storage specialist
Today, an organization has loads of business data thriving in silos across various storage devices. The key role of a storage specialist is to analyse what business data should be placed at which storage tier and why. Let us look at an example.
Within enterprises, there are a few critical enterprise apps – like a business intelligence tool – which need to respond quickly to any data centric query. Any lag in response by the app could impact a prospective business opportunity. In such a situation, it is the storage specialist who needs to strategise and decide to place such apps on high performance storage devices such as flash storage.
Then there are certain non-critical enterprise data which need to be archived and not be retrieved frequently. Here, it is the storage domain specialist who critically analyses the data and decides to place it on either low performance data storage devices or even on cloud storage, where data rests on third party servers.
Considering that an enterprise generally has a mix of storage technologies from a variety of storage vendors, a storage specialist needs to be well versed with the basics of various storage technologies.
Gap in demand and supply
“The rapid growth in digital information is demanding more and more trained storage professionals, resulting in a shortfall of skilled storage professionals. There is a big professional skill gap when it comes to new technology shifts of cloud and big data that are transforming the role of IT in business,” said Krishna Kant, head, EMC Academic Alliance – South Asia & Russia.
Today, organizations are scouting for storage technology specialists who can juggle with a range of storage technologies. The fact that big data analytics, virtualisation and cloud technologies are quite closely inter-linked with storage technologies, is also necessitating storage specialists to up-skill themselves to understand these emerging technologies.
“Some of the skill-sets which storage domain specialists must possess range from a deep knowledge of storage protocols to enhancing performance quality of enterprise apps running on the storage devices and knowledge of how to work with cloud,” said, Supriya Dhanda, HR head of SanDisk.
Key specialisations for a storage specialist
- Product line exposure or certification in various storage technologies such as tape libraries, serial attached SCSI (SAS) technologies, network attached storage (NAS) technologies and direct attached storage (DAS)
- Storage administration skills and clear concepts of storage arrays from various storage tools
- Advanced hands-on trouble shooting exposure on enterprise storage products/tools and SAN switches
- Intelligence to design, deploy and support enterprise storage area network (SAN) fabric and manage data back-ups
- Ability to work with the database and application teams to understand the specific storage requirements for new projects and get them up and running within the stipulated time
- Comprehensive grasp of emerging technologies such as big data analytics, cloud computing and virtualisation and how they should ideally connect and impact enterprise storage infrastructure
- Ability toseek out and implement new technologies to continually simplify the environment while improving security and performance of storage infrastructure
Storage technology specialists need to have a product line exposure or certification in various storage technologies and also have a good grasp over emerging technologies like cloud computing, big data and virtualization so as to continually simplify the storage infrastructure and improve its performance
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