Meet Knowledge Sharing Winner: Bruce Yellin

About Bruce Yellin

Bruce Yellin has worked for EMC Corporation for almost 12 years performing many functions as a Presales engineer. He obtained his EMC Proven Professional SAN Specialist Certification in 2006 and a Storage & Information Infrastructure Specialist Certification in 2009. Today, he supports numerous Enterprise accounts in the greater New Jersey-New York area.

Prior to EMC, he has worked for MetLife, NCR, SCO, Novell, AT&T/UNIX System Labs, Data General, Prime Computer and Equitable Life Insurance in roles that ranged from operations research to product manager to data warehouse architect to applications programmer. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Florida International University, a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology and has taught computer science at Hunter College in NYC.

Bruce started working with computers in 1969 and became interested in storage technology when working as a member of the team designing the UNIX SVR4 operating system at UNIX Systems Labs. This eventually led to an assignment as a hardware Product Manager with SCO for the UnixWare operating system in the 1990’s where he was involved in the coordination to have it supported by numerous hardware platforms including EMC.

Over the years, Bruce has published numerous articles and has presented at professional forums. Outside of work, he is most proud of his work with the United States Tennis Association and the development of their automated tennis player ranking system.

Bruce Yellin's 1st Place Knowledge Sharing Article

In these economically trying times, a great deal of importance is placed on the data warehouse. As a result, warehouse teams face considerable risk trying to keep these huge and highly visible systems available and running at peak performance 24/7. That is where the storage professional comes in. The warehouse group needs the storage professional's expertise with the design, implementation, and support of essential systems.

In this Knowledge Sharing article, author Bruce Yellin demystifies data warehousing for those storage professionals who may not be familiar with data warehouse concepts and terminology. Using a step by step, easy-to-follow approach, Bruce introduces the concepts behind data warehousing and data marts that will guide you from a warehouse beginner to become a contributing member of a decision support group as you leverage your current storage expertise and newly acquired insight.

Case studies are offered, including how one company’s warehouse helped them increase sales of beer and diapers. You will review design concepts, learn how a warehouse accepts new data, and how other systems feed off of it. Also discussed are critical warehouse storage topics such as backup, maintenance, virtualization and the cloud, NAS versus SAN, reliability, availability, scalability, performance, and disaster recovery/business continuity.

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