1. NATURE OF THE TASKS
• Review of existing technology and management process landscape related to ICT Storage Architecture
• Storage infrastructure components (SAN, NAS, others)
• Backup & restore components
• DR support infrastructure components
• Definition of target ICT Storage Architecture, including:
• Supported storage usage scenarios related to business needs
• Identification of storage tiering applicable
• Identification of storage infrastructure components to be deployed
• Identification of suitable and recommended storage infrastructure products and features
• Support for DR scenarios
• Definition of implementation guidelines to Infrastructure Engineering
• Definition of applicable implementation roadmap
• Identification (and support) of network setup changes as needed
• Review of implementation status of identified roadmap
2. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
• Experience in defining and developing storage architecture architectures, particularly in the following domains:
• Storage subsystems
• Storage replication intra and inter datacenters, also on WAN
• Backup & restore solutions
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery storage support design
• Knowledge and experience in storage architecture definition and implementation
• Experience in performing market analysis based on storage usage scenario analysis, to provide recommendations
• Knowledge and experience with storage infrastructure market leaders’ products, such as EMC, NetApp, etc.
• Experience in defining and implementing migration strategies between storage architectures and product sets.