The Complete Storage & Backup Fundamentals

This course will help you to learn the fundamentals concepts of Information Storage and Management related to Storage Systems and Backup technologies.

It gives a detailed overview of storage and backup terminologies, protocols and component information to help in getting started your career as Storage Administrator or as a Backup Administrator.

The course will be useful to anyone that is planning to start a career or have a fundamental understanding of Data storage and the new concepts in cloud storage.

In this course is divided into four lessons as below.

Lesson 1 - Storage

1. Introduction to Data Storage

2. Importance of Digital Data

3. Factors Driving Digital Transformation

4. Introduction to Cloud Computing

5. Benefits of Cloud Computing

6. Deployment Models

Lesson 2 - Storage Terminologies

1. Types of Storage

2. Direct Attached Storage (DAS)

3. Network Attached Storage (NAS)

4. Storage Area Network (SAN)

5. Storage Virtualization / HyperConverged

Lesson 3 - Storage System

1. Storage Array Components

2. What is a RAID

3. How it Works

4. Types of RAID

5. Pros & Cons

Lesson 4 - Backup Methods

1. Introduction to Backup

2. Granularity of Backup

3. Full Backup

4. Incremental Backup

5. Cumulative or Differential Backup

6. Synthetic Backup

7. Mirror Backup

8. Comparison of Backup Methods

A good resource for getting started in Storage & Backup skill set.