Information Storage and Management (ISM) is a unique course that provides a comprehensive understanding of the various components of storage infrastructure in today's data center environment. Participants will explore the architectures, features, and benefits of intelligent storage systems, including block, file, object-oriented, and unified storage systems; software-defined storage; network storage technologies such as FC SAN, IP SAN and FCoE SAN; business continuity solutions such as backup and replication; an extremely important area of information security; and storage infrastructure management. This course uses an open approach to describe all concepts and technologies, further illustrated and enhanced by Dell products and based on real-life use cases. This course aligns with a proven Associate-level professional certification that serves as the foundation for a number of additional product specializations.