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Fall 2008 Conference Agenda
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End-User Case Study |
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Greening of IT discussed in this session |
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Small and Medium-Sized Business Discussed in this Session |
Featured presenters for 2008:
- Nicholas Negroponte, Cofounder, MIT MediaLab and Founder, One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
- Madge Meyer, Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation
- Derek Chan, Head of Digital Operations, DreamWorks Animation
To view the Spring 2008 agenda, click here.
SNW Fall 2008 Conference Tracks:
- Business Continuity: Protection, Backup & Recovery
- Compliance
- Data Center / Infrastructure
- High Performance Computing
- Networking
- Prosumer / SoHo
- Security
- Solid State Disks
- Storage Management
- The Cloud / Storage-a-a-S
- Virtualized Environments & Storage / Server Virtualization
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008
Registration Open 8:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
9:00 -
9:20 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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Solid State Disks Track |
Prosumer/SoHo Track |
High Performance Computing Track |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Protection and Management |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage Management |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Security |
SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program |
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9:20 -
10:05 a.m. |
Tier Zero' Enterprise Storage: Customer Requirements and Use Cases for Array-based SSDs
Lawrence Schwartz, Senior Manager, Symmetrix, EMC Corporation |
Personal Storage Market Outlook - What Are the Key Drivers for Adoption of External Hard Disk Drive
Wolfgang Schlichting, Research Director, IDC

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High Performance Computing for the Enterprise
Bret Weber, Chief Architect and Fellow, LSI Corporation |
Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond
Michael Fishman
Chief Technology Officer, Backup Platforms Group, EMC |
An Introduction to Managing Storage
Russell Warren
Storage Management Development, IBM |
Fibre Channel Technologies: Current and Future
Dr. M. K. Jibbe
Manager and Test Architect Lead, LSI Corporation
Tom Hammond-Doel, Senior Alliance Manager for the Engenio Storage Group of LSI Corporation
Steve Wilson, Director of Technology and Standards, Brocade |
Guarding the Jewels: A Primer on Storage Network Security
Richard Austin
IT Industry Consultant, IT Industry Consultant |
9:20 AM - 10:05 AM
SNIA Certification Overview
Jeanne Douglass, SNIA Education Program Manager
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10:15 -
11:00 a.m. |
The Future of Performance-Oriented Storage: Silicon versus Magnetic Media
David Flynn, Chief Technology Officer, Fusion-io |
RAID for Road Warriors: Leveraging RAID for the Digital Transformation
Michael Lewis, Director of News Operations, LiveXposure
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HPC 101: Introduction to High Performance Computing, History and Trends
Philip Murphy, Senior Director of Engineering, Qlogic Corporation |
Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies
Jason Iehl
Data Protection Solutions Architect, NetApp
Michael Rowan
Consultant and Storage Expert, Consultant and Storage Expert |
High Availability Using Fault Tolerance in the SAN
Mark Fleming
Senior Software Engineer, IBM |
SAS & SATA Combine to Change the Storage Market
Marty Czekalski
Senior Staff Program Manager Seagate Technology, Seagate Technology
Harry Mason
Director, Industry Marketing, LSI Corporation |
First on the Digital Scene: A Forensic Primer for Storage Professionals
Richard Austin
IT Industry Consultant |
Certification/Training Session |
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11:10 -
11:55 a.m. |
Solid State Drives in the Data Center
Brian Beard, Memory Strategic Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor
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Enterprise Class Storage: Making the Move to Consumers
Dr. Geoff Barrall, CEO and Co-Founder, Data Robotics, Inc.

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Enabling Tier 0 Performance with SSD in Enterprise Storage Systems
Patrick Wilkison, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, STEC, Inc. |
Deduplication – Methods for Achieving Data Efficiency
Gideon Senderov
Director, Technical Marketing and Product Management, NEC America
Matthew Brisse
Director of Business Development, Quantum Corporation |
Storage Resource Management: Can you Get What You Want?
John Webster
Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata |
SANs Across MANs and WANs
Dr. Joseph White
Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development |
Certification/Training Session |
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Eight Essential Elements of Excellent Leaders
David Deming
President and Founder, Solution Technology |
11:55 a.m. -
1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
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The Cloud / Storage-as-a-Service Track |
Security Track |
Data Center/ Infrastructure Track |
Tech-Edge Track |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization/ Standards |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking |
SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program |
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1:00 -
1:45 p.m. |
Storage for Cloud Computing Environments
Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, IBM Systems & Technology Group |
Stored Data Encryption: Securing Your Information Infrastructure
David Black, Senior Technologist, EMC Corporation |
A Realistic 'Green Framework' for SME Users - Theory AND Implementation
Brandon Jackson, Chief Information Officer, Gaston County, North Carolina
Mark Peters
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
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1:00 - 1:20 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
Virtualization I - What, Why, Where and How?
Rob Peglar
Vice President Technology, Xiotech Corporation |
Consumer Storage and the Home Network: A Tidal Wave of Opportunity
Rick Bauer
SNIA Technology & Education Director
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Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE)
John Hufferd
Sr. Executive Director of Technology, Brocade Communications |
Certification/Training Session |
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1:25 - 1:45 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
1:55 -
2:40 p.m. |
Out-tasking and the Rise of Cloud Computing: Why It Will Work This Time
Mike Feinberg, Senior Vice President of Technology Ventures Group, EMC Corporation

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A Review of Cybercrime's Impact on Higher Education
Denise Chatam, Chief Security Officer, Lone Star College
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Green, Speed and RAS, Dynamics Demanding Transformation in the Data Center
David Clark, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Qlogic Corporation

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1:55 - 2:15 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
Storage Virtualization II - Effective Use of Virtualization
Rob Peglar
Vice President Technology, Xiotech Corporation |
How to Choose and Evaluate Storage for your Environment: From the Consumer Point-of-View
Chris Lionetti
Senior SAN Engineer, Microsoft Corporation |
Ethernet Enhancements for Storage: Deploying FCoE
Sunil Ahluwalia
Product Line Manager, Intel Corporation
Errol Roberts
Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems |
Certification/Training Session |
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Hands-On Lab
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2:20 - 2:40 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
2:50 -
3:35 p.m. |
Myths of Cloud Storage
Jonathan Buckley, Chief of Marketing, Nirvanix |
Unsafe at Any Speed: 7 Dirty Secrets of the Security Industry
Joshua Corman, Principal Security Strategist, IBM Internet Security Systems |
Building a Near High Availability Oracle Database Farm Using iSCSI and Windows Servers
Steve Remsing, Senior Research Specialist, The Dow Chemical Company

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2:50 - 3:10 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
Server Virtualization and Storage Disaster Recovery
Ray Lucchesi
President, Silverton Consulting
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Solid State Storage for the Enterprise
Brian McKean
Solid State Storage for the Enterprise, LSI Corporation
Woody Hutsell
Executive Vice President, Texas Memory Systems |
Comparing Server I/O Consolidation Solution: iSCSI, Infiniband and FCoE
Gilles Chekroun
Sr. Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems
Errol Roberts
Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems
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Certification/Training Session |
3:15 - 3:35 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
3:45 -
4:30
p.m. |
Panel Discussion: Practical Considerations – Enterprise Backup to the Storage Cloud
Moderator:
Eric Burgener, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group
Panelist:
Chander Kant, CEO and Founder, Zmanda Inc. |
Enterprise Key Management - The Foundation for Secure Storage
Robert Griffin, Director of Solution Design, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
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"Green SANs" - How SANs Reduce Overall Power Requirements in the Data Center
Doug Anderson
Product Line Manager, Cisco Systems
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3:45 - 4:05 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
SMI-S: Building the Case for a Standard
Paul von Behren,
Chief Technologist, Symantec |
Storage Consolidation With IP Storage
David Dale
Director, Industry Standards, NetApp |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Green Storage |
3:45 pm - 5:25 pm
SNIA Storage Networking Foundations Prep
Howard Goldstein, President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. (HGAI) |
4:10 - 4:30 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
Green Storage I Economics, Environment, Energy and Engineering
SW Worth
Sr. Standards Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation |
4:40 -
5:25 p.m. |
Panel Discussion: MSP 2.0: A SaaS-y Future for Storage
Moderator:
Bob Laliberte, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Panelists:
Kent Christensen, Practice Manager, Datalink
Richard Clark, President and CEO, APTARE
Stephen Martino, Director of Information Technology Infrastructure, Harvard Medical School
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Key Management for Database Security
Robert Lockhart, Sr. Solutions Architect, nCipher Inc.
Paul Needham, Director, Product Management, Database Security, Oracle
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Yes, Fibre Channel and iSCSI CAN Co-exist
Praveen Asthana, Director, Enterprise Storage, Dell |
4:40 - 5:00 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
eXtensible Access Method (XAM) – A New Fixed Content API
Mark Carlson
Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems |
MAID Technology Adoption Into Data Centers
Chris Santilli
Chief Technology Officer, COPAN Systems |
Green Storage II: Metrics and Measurements
Erik Riedel, PhD
Director, Seagate Research
Patrick Chu, PhD
Research Staff Member, Seagate Research |
5:05 - 5:25 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
| 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. |
SNIA End-User Council Town Hall Meeting |
| 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. |
Welcome Reception |
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008
Registration Open 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
7:45 -
8:45 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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General Sessions |
9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m
Hands-On Lab |
8:45 -
9:00 a.m. |
Opening Remarks
Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld
Vincent Franceschini, Chairman, Board of Directors, Storage Networking Industry Association |
9:00 -
9:45 a.m. |
IT Transformation & Optimization as a Competitive Advantage
Madge Meyer, Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation
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9:45 -
10:15 a.m. |
The Next Wave in IT: Agile Storage Services
Jack Domme, Chief Operating Officer, Hitachi Data Systems |
SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program |
10:15 -
10:30 a.m. |
Break |
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Storage Network Foundations Prep
Peter Coleman, Managing Director, Infinity IO
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10:30 -
11:00 a.m. |
End-User Case Study Presentation
Derek Chan, Head of Digital Operations, DreamWorks Animation
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11:00 a.m. -
11:30 a.m. |
Industry Leader Presentation
Diane Bryant, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Intel Corporation |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Panel Discussion
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12:00 -
3:00 p.m. |
Luncheon in the Expo |
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Business Continuity: Protection, Backup & Recovery Track |
Virtualization Track |
Data Center/ Infrastructure Track |
Storage Management Track |
Tech-Edge Track |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Protection and Management |
SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program |
2:10 -
2:55
p.m. |
Why Replicate? Situational Criteria
James Baker, Research Manager, Storage Software, IDC
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Storage Virtualization Keeping the SWAT Teams Away
Robert Stevenson, Managing Director of Storage Research, TheInfoPro |
Panel Discussion: From Megawatts to Megabucks: How California Utilities are Leading the Way to IT Energy Conservation
Mark Bramfitt
Principal Program Manager, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Dave Vellante
Co-founder, The Wikibon Project
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Concurent Session |
2:10 - 2:30 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
NAS and iSCSI Technology Overview
Wolfgang Singer
Sr. Certified IT Specialist, IBM |
How NAS Systems Participate in Data Protection
Paul Massiglia
Data Storage Consultant |
2:10 - 3:50 p.m.
SNIA Storage Network Management & Admin. Prep
Peter Coleman, Managing Director, Infinity IO |
2:35 - 2:55 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
3:05 -
3:50
p.m. |
Next Generation Recovery for Remote Offices
Greg Tevis, Tivoli Storage Technical Strategist, IBM
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Distributed Virualization - When Virtual Technologies Move Outside the Four Walls of the Data Center
Mark Urban, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Blue Coat
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Scaling Storage Beyond the SAN
Casey Powell, Chief Executive Officer and President, Xiotech |
3 Out of 4 IT Managers Agree -- Data Migration Never Ends
Shishir Shah, Vice President and General Manager, Storage Solutions Group, Qlogic Corporation
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3:05 - 3:25 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
SMB2 – Big Improvements in the Remote Filesystems
James Pinkerton
Principal Architect, Microsoft Corporation |
A Crash Course in Wide Area Data Replication
Jacob Farmer
Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer |
3:30 - 3:50 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
4:00 -
4:45
p.m. |
Protecting a NYC-based Mid-Market Business in the Wake of Catastrophe: How EvensonBest Implemented Leading-Edge Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Practices after Surviving 9/11, Power Grid Failures and Building Outages
Martin Silverman, Director, IT, EvensonBest
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Scale Unit Computing - The Convergence of Blades, OS Virtualization and SAN Storage
Lee Donnahoo, Storage Architect, Microsoft
Chris Haslam, Storage Architect, Microsoft
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Open Storage
John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Sun Microsystems |
Hold That Thought - How We Saved Our Brain Research Data
Jeremy Lawrence, Director of Information Technology, The Mind Research Network
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4:00 - 4:20 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
Scaling NFS Through pNFS
Omer Asad
Senior Architect, Office of the CTO, NetApp |
Records Managers and Storage Managers Speak: Get the Real Story Behind ILM
Moderator: John Webster
Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata |
4:00 - 5:40 p.m.
SNIA Storage Networking Design & Assessment Prep
Peter Coleman, Managing Director, Infinity IO |
4:25 - 4:45 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
4:55 -
5:40 p.m. |
The Backup Conundrum: Rethinking Backup & Recovery to Meet Your Business
Guy Churchward, Vice President and General Manager, Data Protection Group, NetApp |
Avoid Lock-in: Mix and Match Technologies to Get the Most Value Out of Data Center Virtualization
Brian Trudeau, Chief Information Officer, Amerex Energy

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Storage Networking in the Next Generation Data Center
David Bush
Director, Engineering Solutions, First Data Corporation
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Not Your Grandfather's NFS: The Evolution of NFS
Bruce Moxon, Vice President, Strategic Technology, Office of the CTO, NetApp |
4:55 - 5:15 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development |
Classification: The Cornerstone for Compliance and Cost-Driven Information Management
Edgar St.Pierre
Sr. Technologist, EMC |
5:20 - 5:40 p.m.
Tech-Edge Session |
Survivor Guide: Leading in Difficult Times
Harriet Pea
Consultant |
5:40 -
8:40 p.m. |
Dinner in the Expo |
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2008
Registration Open 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
| 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. |
IDC Breakfast Presentation |
7:45 -
8:45 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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General Sessions |
9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m
Hands-On Lab |
8:45 -
9:00 a.m. |
Opening Remarks
Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld
Vincent Franceschini, Chairman, Board of Directors, Storage Networking Industry Association |
SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program |
9:00 -
9:45 a.m. |
Opening Visionary Presentation
Nicholas Negroponte, Cofounder, MIT MediaLab and Founder, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) |
9:15 - 9:45 a.m. SNIA Certification Overview
Jeanne Douglass, SNIA Education Program Manager |
9:45 -
10:15 a.m. |
End-User Case Study Presentation |
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
SNIA Storage Networking Foundations Prep
Peter Coleman, Managing Director, Infinity IO |
10:15 -
10:45
a.m. |
Industry Leader Presentation |
10:45 -
11:00 a.m. |
Break |
11:00 -
11:30
a.m. |
End-User Case Study Presentation
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| 11:30 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. |
Industry Leader Presentation |
12:00 -
12:30
p.m. |
End-User Case Study Presentation
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12:30 -
3:00 p.m. |
Luncheon in the Expo |
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Business Continuity: Protection, Backup & Recovery Track |
Virtualization Track |
Data Center/ Infrastructure Track |
Storage Management Track |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Applications |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Security |
SNIA Tutorial Track: File Systems and Management |
SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program |
2:10 -
2:55
p.m. |
Deploying Enterprise-Class Data Deduplication -- Walk Before You Run
Miklos Sandorfi, Chief Technology Officer, SEPATON |
Concurent Session
Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems
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The Real Costs to Power and Cool Storage - What can be Done?
David Reinsel, Group Vice President, Storage and Semiconductors Research, IDC |
Managing > 100PB of Data in a High-Performance Computing Environment
William (Bill) Allcock, Manager, Advanced Integration Group, The Argonne National Laboratory Leadership Computing Facility
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Scaling Data Center Application Infrastructure
Gary Orenstein
Vice President, Marketing, Gear6 |
ABCs of Encryption
Roger Cummings
Technical Director, Symantec Corporation
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DFS over CIFS
Matthew Geddes
Consultant |
2:10 - 3:50 p.m.
SNIA Storage Network Management & Admin. Prep
Phil Huml, Sr. Consultant, Knowledge Transfer |
3:05 -
3:50
p.m. |
Skincare, Fragrance, Makeup…and Business Continuity?
Linda King, Director of Information Technology, Elizabeth Arden
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Taking Disaster Out of Disaster Recovery: Virtualization Strategies that Transform Your Infrastructure
Jorge Mata
Chief Information Officer, Los Angeles Community College District
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Panel Discussion: Reducing Data Center Costs through Improved Energy Efficiency
Dave Vellante
Co-founder, The Wikibon Project

Phil Bullinger
Executive Vice President, Engenio Storage Group, LSI

Clod Barrera
Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Ken Osterberg
Director, Enterprise PLM Portfolio Strategy, Seagate |
Pushing the SMB Storage Envelope by Making Sense of Scalability Demands and Keeping Cool on Costs
Jack Igoe, Director, Product Management, Advanced Storage Products, NEC Corporation of America
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Running Database Applications On NAS: How and Why?
Stephen Daniel
Technical Director, NetApp |
An Introduction to Key Management for Secure Storage
Walter Hubis
Software Architect, LSI Corporation |
Storage Tiering for File & NAS Systems
Ashvin Kamaraju
Vice President Engineer, Symantec Corporation |
4:00 -
4:45
p.m. |
Backing up the Next Generation Data Center: The Hewlett-Packard IT Case Study
Brad Vincent, Worldwide Product Manager, HP |
Real-World File Virtualization: How Increasing Data Mobility Can Reduce the Costs of File Storage
Burzin Engineer
Vice President of Infrastructure Technology, Shopzilla, Inc.
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Rejuvenate Your Data Center - A Look at Data Footprint Reduction Technologies
Jonathan Amit
Chief Technology Officer, Storwize Inc.
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Pay-Per-Use Storage: A Different Way to Buy Storage "that never runs out"
Shawn Wagner, Senior Program Manager, HP |
Fundamental Approaches to WAN Optimization
Joshua Tseng
Director,Technical Marketing, Riverbed Technology |
Best Practices for Key Management for Secure Storage
Walt Hubis
Software Architect, LSI Corporation |
The File Systems Evolution
Christian Bandulet
Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems |
4:00 - 5:40 p.m.
SNIA Storage Networking Design & Assessment Prep
Leroy Budnik, President, Knowledge Transfer |
4:55 -
5:40 p.m. |
Preparing for a Category Five Disaster
Lawrence Di Gioia, Director of Information Services, City of Altamonte Springs
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Credit Union Cashes In With Smart Storage: How Virginia Credit Union Enhanced Its Member Services
Chris Saneda, Chief Information Officer, Virginia Credit Union
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Green IT
Jose Iglesias
Vice President of Global Solutions, Symantec Corporation
Bruce Naegel
Senior Product Manager for SIGSEC, Symantec Corporation
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I/O 2.0 -- A New Model for Intelligent Storage Management
Sundi Sundaresh, CEO and President, Adaptec, Inc. |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development |
Storage Security Panel: Learning From Others Experiences
Moderator: Blair Semple
Security Evangelist; SNIA Storage Security Forum, NetApp
Panelist:
Keith Bankston, Lead Solutions Architect, CSC - Architecture & Innovation
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SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage Management |
Technical Team Work and Team Leadership
Howard Goldstein
President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc (HGAI) |
Lowering Storage TCO: Reducing Expenses By Increasing Functionality
Jamie Blomquist
Product Marketing Manager, Compellant |
5:40 -
8:40 p.m. |
Cocktail Reception & Gala Evening
"Best Practices in Storage Awards" Program, Dinner & Entertainment |
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
Registration Open 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
7:30 -
8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:00 -
8:45 a.m. |
SNIA Certfication Breakfast
All SNIA Certification holders are invited to breakfast with the SNIA Education Leadership |
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Business Continuity: Protection, Backup & Recovery Track |
Networking Track |
Compliance Track |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Security |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Protection and Management |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Green Storage |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking |
SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program |
8:30 -
9:15 a.m. |
Availability versus Protection -- and What is New for Windows Environments
Jason Buffington
Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft - Storage Solutions |
Using WAN Optimization to Alleviate Growing Pains
Bill Trussell, Managing Director of Networking Research, TheInfoPro
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Corporate Litigation Technology Investment Trends: Is Your Organization Ready for the Rule 26(f) Con
Vivian Tero, Program Manager - Compliance Infrastructure, IDC |
How E-Discovery Will Impact Your Life as a Storage Professional
David Stevens
Storage Manager, Carnegie Mellon University |
Retaining Information for 100 Years
Mary Baker
Sr. Research Scientist, HP
Roger Cummings
Technical Director, Symantec Corporation |
Software Technologies for Green Storage
Alan Yoder, PhD
Senior Technical Staff, NetApp |
PCI Express and Storage
Ron Emerick
I/O Architect, Sun Microsystems |
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9:25 -
10:10
a.m. |
Howard Rice Lowers TCO and Streamlines Backup with a Disaster
Matthew Reynolds, Chief Information Officer, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canaday Falk & Rabin
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Activision's Global Replication Strategy Speeds Games to Market
Thomas Fenady, Senior Director, Information Technology, Activision, Inc.
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Proactive Strategies to Managing Information for Regulatory Compliance and Mitigating Risk
Sudhakar Muddu, Chief Executive Officer, Kazeon |
Information Security & IT Compliance
Carlos Martinez
Product Marketing Manager, HP
Gordon Arnold
Chair/Senior Technical Staff Member, SSIF/IBM |
Compliant Storage: The Risks of Retention and Deletion in the Face of FRCP
Michael Peterson
President, Strategic Research Corp. |
Building the Green Data Center: Towards Best Practices and Technical Considerations
Rick Bauer
SNIA Technology & Education Director |
Fabric Consolidation with Infiniband
Dror Goldenberg
Director of Architecture, Mellanox Technologies |
9:25 – 11:05 am
SNIA Storage Networking Foundations Prep
Phil Huml, Sr. Consultant, Knowledge Transfer |
10:20 -
11:05 a.m. |
The Marketplace Intersection of Disk and Tape Trends in Tiered Storage
Nathan Thompson
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Spectra Logic Corporation |
Blazing New Trails: Fibre Channel Corrals the Storage Market
Tom Hammond-Doel, Vice-Chairman FCIA, Fibre Channel Industry Association
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Ensuring Your Most Important Asset Doesn't Become a Liability
Michael Marchi
Vice President of Product and Segment Marketing, CommVault |
SCSI Security Nuts and Bolts
Ralph Weber
Consultant, ENDL |
The Secret Sauce of ILM: The ILM Assessment Core
Bob Rogers
Chief Technology Officer, Application Matrix |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage |
Six Sigma Performance Analysis for SAN Switches
Dan Iacono
Sr. SAN Systems Engineer, HP |
Why Data Integrity is Important to You
Richard Vanderbilt
Sr. Alliance Manager, LSI Corporation |
11:15 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. |
Tiers for Fears: RAID Fundamentals Driving a Green World
Tom Hammond-Doel, Senior Alliance Manager, LSI Corporation |
Previewing FCoE Server Connectivity Solutions
Doug Ingraham
Senior Director, Product Management, Data Center, Infrastructure, Brocade
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The Place of Storage in Electronic Discovery
Randy Baldemor, Vice President, Business Development, DiscoveryBox |
Trusted Computing Group (TCG): Trusted Storage Specification
Dr. Michael Willett
Sr. Director, Security, Seagate
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SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization / Standards |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage Management |
SNIA Tutorial Track: Systems and Management |
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Storage and Virtualization: Five Best Practices to Ensure Success
Mike Matchett
Director of Product Marketing, Akorri |
Solving Business-Oriented Goals with SMI-S
Paul von Behren
Chief Technologist, Symantec Corporation |
Find and Select the Right File Storage for your Applications
Philippe Nicolas
Technology Evangelist, Brocade Communications |
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