Storage Networking World

Fall 2008 Conference Agenda

LEGEND
	End-User Case Study
	Greening of IT discussed in this session
	Small and Medium-Sized Business Discussed in this Session

Featured presenters for 2008:

Diane Bryant, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Intel Corporation
Derek Chan, Head of Digital Operations, DreamWorks Animation
Burzin Engineer, Vice President of Infrastructure Technology, Shopzilla, Inc.
Madge Meyer, Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation
Nicholas Negroponte, Cofounder, MIT MediaLab and Founder, One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Ian Patterson, Chief Information Officer, Scottrade
Marty Smith, Chief Information Technology Officer, ChoicePoint

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-as-a-Service
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
	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
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	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 Corporation	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 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
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	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	SNIA Certification Overview Jeanne Douglass, SNIA Education Program Manager
11:10 - 11:55 a.m.	Solid State Drives in the Data Center Brian Beard, Memory Strategic Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor	Enterprise Class Storage: Making the Move to Consumers Dr. Geoff Barrall, CEO and Co-Founder, Data Robotics, Inc.	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 Matthew Brisse Director of Business Development, Quantum Corporation Gideon Senderov Director, Technical Marketing and Product Management, NEC America	SRM: 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	The Value of Certification to IT Storage Professional Will Roming, Spectra Logic, Systems Engineer – Professional Services
11:10 - 11:55 a.m.							Eight Essential Elements of Excellent Leaders David Deming President and Founder, Solution Technology
11:55 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch

	The Cloud / Storage-as-a-Service Track	Security Track	Data Center/ Infrastructure Track	SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization/ Standards	SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage	SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking	SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.	Storage for Cloud Computing Environments Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, IBM Systems & Technology Group Stephen Edel, Program Director, Storage Portfolio Management, IBM	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	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	Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) John Hufferd Senior Executive Director of Technology, Brocade Communications	Brocade Certification Program Joe Cannata, Brocade Certification Manager
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, Cloud Infrastructure Group , EMC Corporation	A Review of Cybercrime's Impact on Higher Education Denise Chatam, Chief Security Officer, Lone Star College	Green, Speed and RAS, Dynamics Demanding Transformation in the Data Center David Clark, Senior Product Marketing Manager, QLogic Corporation	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	NetApp Certification Program	2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Hands-On Lab
2:50 - 3:35 p.m.	Myths of Cloud Storage Patrick Harr, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, 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	Server Virtualization and Storage Disaster Recovery Ray Lucchesi President, Silverton Consulting	Solid State Storage for the Enterprise Woody Hutsell Executive Vice President, Texas Memory Systems Brian McKean Solid State Storage for the Enterprise, LSI Corporation	Comparing Server I/O Consolidation Solutions: iSCSI, Infiniband and FCoE Gilles Chekroun Senior Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems Errol Roberts Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems	3:00 pm - 3:20 pm LSI Certification Announcement Haley Heter, Certification Manager, Global Education Services, Engenio Storage Group
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 Panelists: Chander Kant, CEO and Founder, Zmanda Inc. Ynema Mangum, Product Line Manager, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Enterprise Key Management - The Foundation for Secure Storage Robert Griffin, Director of Solution Design, RSA, The Security Division of EMC Corporation	"Green SANs" - How SANs Reduce Overall Power Requirements in the Data Center Nitin Garg, Product Manager, Cisco Systems	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 Network Foundations Prep Howard Goldstein, President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. (HGAI)
3:45 - 4:30 p.m.						Green Storage I: Economics, Environment, Energy and Engineering SW Worth Senior 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	Key Management for Database Security Robert Lockhart, Senior Solutions Architect, nCipher Inc. Paul Needham, Director, Product Management, Database Security, Oracle	Yes, Fibre Channel and iSCSI CAN Co-exist Praveen Asthana, Director, Enterprise Storage, Dell	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
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.	SNIA End-User Council Town Hall Meeting
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.	A Taste of the SNIA Forums and Initiatives at Storage Networking World in Dallas
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.	Welcome Reception

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008 Registration Open 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
7:45 - 8:45 a.m.	Breakfast
	General Sessions								9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m Hands-On Lab 9:00am – 11:00am Configuring IP SANs Establishing a Virtualized Storage Environment Managing Storage and Data Resources 10:00am – Noon Securing and Protecting Your Environment Zero to FC SAN and Beyond Server Virtualization 11:30am – 1:30pm Configuring IP SANs Establishing a Virtualized Storage Environment Managing Storage and Data Resources 2:00pm – 4:00pm Securing and Protecting Your Environment Zero to FC SAN and Beyond Server Virtualization 3:00pm – 5:00pm Configuring IP SANs Establishing a Virtualized Storage Environment Managing Storage and Data Resources
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 Tranformation & Optimization as a Competitive Advantage Madge Meyer, Executive Vice President, State Street Corporation
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
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.	Scaling Storage Beyond the SAN Casey Powell, Chief Executive Officer and President, Xiotech Corporation
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Managing the Information Explosion Diane Bryant, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Intel Corporation
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	The Global Shift to the Information Economy Chuck Hollis, Vice President, Global Marketing Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation
12:00 - 3:00 p.m.	Luncheon in the Expo
	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	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 Rich Avila, Director, Server & Network Operations, California State University East Bay Mark Bramfitt Principal Program Manager, Pacific Gas and Electric Company Alan Rose, Program Manager for Oncor, CLEAResult Consulting, Inc. Dave Vellante Co-founder, The Wikibon Project	The Cure for Compliance Headaches: Effective Storage Management Chuck Siemon, Chief Information Officer, Whole Health	2:10 - 2:30 p.m. Tech-Edge Session	NAS and iSCSI Technology Overview Wolfgang Singer Senior Certified IT Specialist, IBM	How NAS Systems Participate in Data Protection Paul Massiglia Data Storage Consultant	2:10 - 3:50 p.m. SNIA Storage Networking Management & Admin. Prep PREP FOR NEW SNIA S10-201 EXAM Peter Coleman, Managing Director, Infinity IO
					2:35 - 2:55 p.m. The Power of XAM - Value Proposition & Architecture Overview David Martin, Director, Product Management, HP; and Co-Chair, SNIA XAM Initiative
3:05 - 3:50 p.m.	Next Generation Recovery for Remote Offices Greg Tevis, Tivoli Storage Technical Strategist, IBM	Distributed Virualization - When Virtual Technologies Move Outside the Four Walls of the Data Center Mark Urban, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Blue Coat	Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Information Robert Petrocelli, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, greenBytes	3 Out of 4 IT Managers Agree -- Data Migration Never Ends Shishir Shah, Vice President and General Manager, Storage Solutions Group, QLogic Corporation	3:05 - 3:25 p.m. IBM Quicksilver Proof of Concept Tech-Edge Demo Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, IBM Systems & Technology Group	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. Aperi - Open Source Storage Management Project Russell Warren, Aperi Project Executive & Storage Management Development, IBM
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	Scale Unit Computing - The Convergence of Blades, OS Virtualization and SAN Storage Lee Donnahoo, Storage Architect, Microsoft	Open Storage Graham Lovell, Senior Director of Open Storage and Networking, Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Hold That Thought - How We Saved Our Brain Research Data Jeremy Lawrence, Director of Information Technology, The Mind Research Network	4:00 - 4:20 p.m. De-duplication Technologies -- What Every End User Should Know Yates Hagan, Area Sales Manager, Diligent Technologies, an IBM Company	Scaling NFS Through pNFS Joshua Konkle, Technical Evangelist, NAS, NetApp Omer Asad Senior Architect, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, NetApp	Records Managers and Storage Managers Speak: Get the Real Story Behind ILM Moderator: John Webster Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata Panelists: Colette Bliobenes, Information Management Consultant, Iron Mountain, Data Protection Brenda Patterson, Certified Records Manager, Sunland Group Jackson Shea, Technical Lead for Storage Administration, The Regence Group Laurence Whittaker, Chair, SNIA End User Council	4:00 - 5:40 p.m. SNIA Storage Networking Design & Assessment Prep Peter Coleman, Managing Director, Infinity IO
					4:25 - 4:45 p.m. EMC Centera and the SNIA XAM Standard John Zocchi, Manager, Product Marketing, EMC Corporation
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	Death, Taxes and New Storage Protocols - Gracefully Integrate Your Storage Infrastructure Steve Reichwein, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, QLogic Corporation	Not Your Grandfather's NFS: The Evolution of NFS Bruce Moxon, Vice President, Strategic Technology, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, NetApp	4:55 - 5:15 p.m. EMC CLARiiON: The First Generation of Green Storage Joe Szeremet, Solutions Consultant, EMC Corporation	SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development	Classification: The Cornerstone for Compliance and Cost-Driven Information Management Edgar St.Pierre Senior Technologist, EMC Corporation
					5:20 - 5:40 p.m. The Power of XAM - Value Proposition & Architecture Overview David Martin, Director, Product Management, HP; and Co-Chair, SNIA XAM Initiative	Survivor Guide: Leading in Difficult Times Harriet Pea Whitmore Pea Consulting
5:40 - 8:40 p.m.	Dinner in the Expo

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2008 Registration Open 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
7:30 - 8:30 a.m.	IDC Breakfast Presentation Welcome and Introduction David Reinsel, Group Vice President, Storage and Semiconductor, IDC 7:30 - 7:50 a.m. The Evolving Role of Tape and the Rise of Disk Based Data Protection Strategies Robert Amatruda, Research Director, Tape and Removable Storage, IDC 7:50 - 8:10 Storage-as-a-Service: Buyer Preferences and Market Opportunities Laura DuBois, Program Director, Storage Software, IDC 8:10 - 8:30 Storage in the Cloud: What, How, and Who Richard Villars, Vice President, Storage Systems, IDC
7:45 - 8:45 a.m.	Breakfast
	General Sessions								9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m Hands-On Lab 9:00am – 11:00am Securing and Protecting Your Environment Zero to FC SAN and Beyond Server Virtualization 10:00am – Noon Configuring IP SANs Establishing a Virtualized Storage Environment Managing Storage and Data Resources SNIA XAM Deep Dive for Developers 11:30am – 1:30pm Securing and Protecting Your Environment Zero to FC SAN and Beyond Server Virtualization 2:00pm – 4:00pm Configuring IP SANs Establishing a Virtualized Storage Environment Managing Storage and Data Resources SNIA XAM Deep Dive for Developers 3:00pm – 5:00pm Securing and Protecting Your Environment Zero to FC SAN and Beyond Server Virtualization
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 - 10:00 a.m.	The Future Lies Ahead 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
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.	Managing Large-Scale Network Deployment Projects with Success Ian Patterson, Chief Information Officer, Scottrade, Inc.							10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SNIA Storage Network Foundations Prep Peter Coleman, Managing Director, Infinity IO
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 - 11:20 a.m.	Real-World File Virtualization: How Increasing Data Mobility Can Reduce the Costs of File Storage Burzin Engineer, Vice President of Infrastructure Technology, Shopzilla, Inc.
11:20 - 11:55 a.m.	How to Unleash Artistic Creativity with Innovative Storage Technology Derek Chan, Head of Digital Operations, DreamWorks Animation
11:55 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Poised for Growth: Optimizing the Data Center to Increase Performance and Generate Cost-Savings for Business Unit Customers Marty Smith, Chief Information Technology Officer, ChoicePoint, Inc.
12:30 - 3:00 p.m.	Luncheon in the Expo
	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	SOS: A Services-Oriented Storage (SOS) Architecture Can Rescue Siloed Storage Assets! Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems	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	Scaling Data Center Application Infrastructure Gary Orenstein Vice President, Marketing, Gear6	ABCs of Encryption Roger Cummings Technical Director, Symantec Corporation	DFS Over CIFS Matthew Geddes Consultant	2:10 - 3:50 p.m. SNIA Storage Networking Management & Admin. Prep PREP FOR NEW SNIA S10-201 EXAM Phil Huml, Senior Consultant, Knowledge Transfer
3:05 - 3:50 p.m.	Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Scores High Ed Grassie, Director, IT Infrastructure, BBM Canada	Taking Disaster Out of Disaster Recovery: Virtualization Strategies that Transform Your Infrastructure Jorge Mata Chief Information Officer, Los Angeles Community College District	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 Daryl Molitor Senior Architect, JCPenney 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	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 of Engineering, 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 Vinay Kumar, R & D Program Manager, HP Data Protector	A Year of File Virtualization: Insights and Best Practices from Lulu.com Bill Montgomery, Manager, Information Systems, Lulu.com	Rejuvenate Your Data Center - A Look at Data Footprint Reduction Technologies Jonathan Amit Chief Technology Officer, Storwize Inc.	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	Credit Union Cashes In With Smart Storage: How Virginia Credit Union Enhanced Its Member Services Chris Saneda, Chief Information Officer, Virginia Credit Union	Green IT Bruce Naegel Senior Product Manager for SIGSEC, Symantec Corporation	What Does I/O Do Next? Three Ps to Think About: Power, Performance and People Jon Flower, Vice President of Technology, Adaptec, Inc.	SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development	Storage Security Panel: Learning From Others Experiences Moderator: Blair Semple Security Evangelist; SNIA Storage Security Forum, NetApp Panelists: Keith Bankston, Lead Solutions Architect, CSC - Architecture & Innovation Eric A. Hibbard, CISSP, CISA, Senior Director, Data Networking Technology, Hitachi Data Systems Robert Przykucki, Senior Product Manager, NetApp David Stevens, Storage Manager, Carnegie Mellon University	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

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008 Registration Open 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
7:30 - 8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.	SNIA Certfication Breakfast All SNIA Certification holders are invited to breakfast with the SNIA Education Leadership
	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	8:00 – 12:00 noon SNW Hands-On Lab SNIA XAM Deep Dive for Developers Special Sessions
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		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 Senior Research Scientist, HP Roger Cummings Technical Director, Symantec Corporation	Technologies for Green Storage Alan Yoder, PhD Senior Technical Staff, NetApp	PCI Express and Storage Ron Emerick I/O Architect, Sun Microsystems
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 & Rabkin	Activision's Global Replication Strategy Speeds Games to Market Thomas Fenady, Senior Director, Information Technology, Activision, Inc.	Proactive Strategies to Managing Information for Regulatory Compliance and Mitigating Risk Karthik Kannan, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Kazeon	Information Security & IT Compliance Eric A. Hibbard, CISSP, CISA, Senior Director, Data Networking Technology, Hitachi Data Systems	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 Network Foundations Prep Phil Huml, Senior 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	Ensuring Your Most Important Asset Doesn't Become a Liability Simon Taylor, Senior Director, Information Access & Management, 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 Senior SAN Systems Engineer, HP
						Why Data Integrity is Important to You Richard Vanderbilt Senior 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	The Place of Storage in Electronic Discovery Randy Baldemor, Vice President, Business Development, DiscoveryBox Kevin Esposito, MBA, JD, Director, Electronic Discovery, MetaJure, Inc.	Trusted Computing Group (TCG): Trusted Storage Specification Dr. Michael Willett Senior Director, Security, Seagate	SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization / Standards	SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage Management	SNIA Tutorial Track: File Systems and File Management
					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
12:00 p.m.	Conference Concludes