SAN Companies

Solution Technology

Solution Technology is the main place I have worked for over the past 15+ years.  It has been a great experience and I feel that I have met and worked with the “best of the best” in the SAN training industry, so I thought I should let you know a little about them.

They are actually a relatively small group of dedicated folks that have the talent to pass on technical information in a way that is easy to understand, at least if you have worked in the computer or storage industry at all.  They pride themselves on developing technical documents (books & reference materials) and presenting very detailed information in a way that can be understood.

One of the best parts of most of the classes, at least in my opinion, are the protocol analyzer traces that show the actual operation of the interface.  This does get into the nuts & bolts of how a system works, but for a person that needs this kind of detail, it is really great.

A few of the SAN courses (such as the iSCSI course) include hands-on lab exercises, where you can build, configure, and analyze how the system works.  This involves installing either hardware or software (or both) components and then performing the actual steps to make it work.  The best part of these classes, at least for me, is when something does not work and you have to use the tools you have available to figure out what is happening and make it function properly.  Of course this means that you would have been given enough information about how the system is supposed to work, and how to use the tools, and these exercises help reinforce the concepts covered during the course by actually doing all these things yourself.

There is also a dedicated office staff at Solution Technology.  They do their job so well that most of the time you are not even aware of them.  This includes everything from scheduling the classes, both on-site and at the customer site, handling and shipping of materials (books and such), and handling “paperwork” (the backbone of most businesses), etc.

This may all sound relatively simple, but once you have seen how things can be “overlooked” or forgotten, as I have seen when other companies are trying to do these things, then you really start to appreciate the skills and talents of all involved there.

I am proud to have worked with everyone here.

Solution Technology - Ben Lomond, CA