Managing the Petabyte Data Center…Are You Ready?
Bernard Gilbert, Chief Executive Officer, IBRIX, Inc.

No longer just a media outlet for a company's products and services, the Web - and more specifically Web 2.0 - has redefined how we communicate and conduct business.  Faced with the explosion of Web 2.0 user-generated content, growing interest in sharing and saving all types of digital files, and heightened data retention regulations, businesses today are challenged with managing burgeoning amounts of unstructured data.  Managing petabytes of distributed, unstructured data is inherently different and extraordinarily more complex than managing several terabytes of transactional data in the typical enterprise data center, and this session will focus on the best practices. 

As a result of participating in this session, attendees will be able to: 

• Assess how a Segmented File System approach allows enterprises to build very low cost, but highly resilient digital bulk storage systems that scale to hundreds of petabytes without compromise. 
• Appreciate how customers like AOL are able to keep costs low and operator efficiency high
• Implement best practices for managing petabytes of distributed, unstructured data