[SVLUG-Jobs] Silicon Valley PAID NAS Focus Group April 14th 6:30pm

[Tom Garland]

Dear SVLUG Community,
 
I am consultant working with a well funded stealth NAS virtualization
start-up who is just about to launch their product.  Before they do,
they are holding a 90 minute focus group/dinner for Bay Area based NAS
storage admins. There is an honorarium paid to the attendees.
 
If anyone is interested let me know.
 
Thanks.
 
Tom Garland
tgarland at acuitive.com
www.Acuitive.com <http://www.acuitive.com/> 
 
 
Date: April 14th 6:30 - 8:00 pm, Dinner served
 
Location: Sunnyvale
 
Ideal Profile:
 
Specific primary and near-line storage administrative experience using
 
hardware from the following vendors: Network Appliance, Spinnaker,
 
BlueArc, EMC, SUN or Microsoft Windows based filers is a requirement.
 
 
Participants must have a thorough understanding of CIFS and NFS and
 
RAID devices.
 
 
Storage environment must be over 250 users/multiple TBs of NAS storage
 
and have 10 or more NAS devices managed at your location.
 
 
 
Participants must have experience scaling NAS across multiple filers
 
including name space partitioning and file migration. Participants who
 
have insights into current methods as well as proposed methods such as
 
clustered or distributed file systems and to scale NAS with a single
global
 
name space from both incumbent and start up vendors would strongly be
 
preferred.
 
 
 
Participants with hands on administrative experience with storage
 
applications experience for snap-shotting, back up and restore,
mirroring,
 
information life cycle management, charge-back, quota management,
 
storage virtualization and resource management and remote replication
for
 
Disaster Recovery a plus. Home grown scripting tools to accomplish
 
similar results would be great.
 
Compensation:
 
Must be willing to participate in on-site discussion in the evening for
the
 
entire 90 minute discussion.
 
 
 
$150 Honoraria will be given to each participant. Food will be served.