Spring 2008 Conference Agenda
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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2008
Registration Open 8:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
9:00 -
9:20 a.m.
Breakfast
9:20 -
11:55 a.m.
Regulatory / Compliance Track High Performance Computing Track Next-Gen Data Center Track SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Management SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization/ Standards SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage Management SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
9:20 -
10:05 a.m.
New Regulations & Compliance Issues:  How to Stay One Step Ahead

Tim Russell
Vice President and General Manager of Storage Security Business Unit, NetApp

Next Generation File Services:  Addressing the Growing Challenge of Managing File Based Information

Noemi Greyzdorf
Research Manager, IDC

The Power Shift to Next Generation Storage Infrastructure

Dave Vellante
Co-founder, The Wikibon Project

William Souder
Director, Network Operations and Chief Security Officer, Berry College

User Green IT

Introduction to Data Protection:  Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond

Jason Iehl
Data Protection Solution Architect, NetApp

Storage Networking Standards: Recent Developments

David Black
Distinguished Engineer, EMC Corporation

An Introduction to Managing Storage

Russell Warren
Storage Management Development, IBM Corporation

SNIA Certification Overview Session / Certification Partner Program

Jeanne Douglass
SNIA Education Program Manager
10:15 -
11:00 a.m.

Content Archiving for Rapid eDiscovery, Compliance and Disaster Recovery

Rick Chin
Senior Vice President, Information Technology, Pinnacle Financial Corporation

User

Accelerating Applications with InfiniBand Connected Servers and High Performance Storage Systems

John Mincarelli
Director, Information Technology, Synopsys

SAN Replication + Wide Area Data Services:  The One-Two Punch for Consolidating Your Data Center

Adam Rasner
Director, Corporate Networking, Rayonier, Inc.

User

Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies

Michael Rowan
Consultant and Storage Expert

SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development SNIA Tutorial Track: Green Storage

SNIA Certification Partner Representative

BROCADE Certfication Program

Joe Cannata
BROCADE Certification Manager

Trustology – The Secret Sauce of Productivity Teams & Profitable Organizations

David Deming
President and Founder, Solution Technology

Green Storage I - Economics, Environment, Energy and Engineering

SW Worth
Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Green IT

11:10 -
11:55 a.m.
In-House eDiscovery

Andy Cohen
Associate General Counsel and Compliance Practice Lead, EMC Corporation
Solid State Drives in Enterprise

Richard Coulson
Intel Senior Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel Corporation
Bringing Managed Reliability and Service Avoidance to Storage

Steve Sicola
Chief Technology Officer, Xiotech Corporation

Identifying and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks: Taking Your Existing Backup System To the Next Level

Jacob Farmer
Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer

SNIA Tutorial Track: File Management

Building the Green Data Center: Towards Best Practices and Technical Considerations

Rick Bauer
SNIA Technology & Education Director, Storage Networking Industry Association

Sol Squire
Managing Director for Off-Shore Operations, Data Islandia

Green IT

SNIA Certification Partner Representative

EMC Proven Professional Program

Karen Mancini
Principal Program Manager, EMC Proven Professional Program

Unified NAS and iSCSI Technology Overview

Wolfgang Singer
Member of the IBM Technical Experts Council, IBM Corporation

11:55 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
12:30 -
5:30 p.m.
Pre-Conference Golf Outing
1:00 -
5:25 p.m.
Business Continuity / Data Protection Track Storage Management Track Next-Gen Data Center Track Tech-Edge Track SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization/ Standards SNIA Tutorial Track: Security SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
1:00 -
1:45 p.m.

Storage-as-a-Service

Doug Chandler
Director of Research, IDC

Are You Keeping Pace?  Trends Impacting Storage Management

Robert Stevenson
Managing Director of Storage Research, TheInfoPro

Data Center 2.0:  Simple Guidelines for a Complicated World

Marcy Montgomery
Chief Operating Officer, Spectra Logic

Green IT
1:00 - 1:20 p.m.
Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System


Wendy Johnson
Senior Product Manager, Sun Microsystems

Fibre Channel Technologies:  Current and Future

M. K. Jibbe
Manager and Test Architect Lead, LSI Corporation

Steven Wilson
Director of Technology and Standards, Brocade Communications, Inc.

Tom Hammond-Doel
Alliance Manager, LSI Corporation

Virtualization I - What, Why, Where and How?

Rob Peglar
Vice President Technology, Xiotech Corporation

Saving Private Data: An Introduction to Storage Security

Richard Austin
IT Industry Consultant

SNIA Certification Partner Representative

Hitachi Data Systems Certification Program

Peter Manijak
Director, HDS Academy
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM
Solaris Multi-Protocol FC Target

Zhong Wang
, Solaris Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems
1:55 -
2:40 p.m.
PII Data Protection Using Remote-to-Core Approach

Dmitri Ryutov
Vice President, IT Senior Architect, JPMorganChase

User

Back to School Data Protection with Latin School of Chicago

Shandor Simon
Director of Networking Services, Latin School of Chicago

User

Maximizing the Value of Critical Data - The Next Generation of Cancer Research

Parag Mallick
Director of Clinical Proteomics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center

User

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM
Secure Business Continuity with No Performance Impact

Alok Sharma

Vice President, Network Security, Thales e-Security Inc.

IP Storage Protocols - iSCSI

John Hufferd
Senior Executive Director of Technology
Brocade Communications Systems

Storage Virtualization II - Effective Use of Virtualization

Rob Peglar
Vice President Technology, Xiotech Corporation

ABCs of Encryption

Roger Cummings
Technical Director, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Symantec Corporation

SNIA Certification Partner Representative 

NetApp Certification Program

Annina Puccio
Senior Manger, Assessments and Certification, Network Appliance
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Breaking the Performance & Scalability Barriers of Legacy NAS Systems with IBM Scale Out File Services

Mack Basi
l, Global Offering Executive, IBM Corp.
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Hands-On Lab
2:50 -
3:35 p.m.

Tiers for Fears:  RAID Fundamentals Driving a Green World

Tom Hammond-Doel
Senior Alliance Manager, LSI

Green IT

Mind-at-Rest for Data-at-Rest:  Avoiding Data Breaches When Hardware Leaves the Data Center

Willis Whittington
Senior Market Development Manager, Seagate Technology

The Quiet and Not-so-Quiet Technologies Shifting IT Services for the Enterprise

Larry Boucher
Chief Executive Officer, Alacritech
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
AMD Processor-based Storage Bridge Bay 2.0 Reference Design Kit

David Jessel
, Storage Segment Manager, AMD

Comparing Server I/O Consolidation Solutions: iSCSI, InfiniBand and FCoE

Walter Dey
Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

Gilles Chekroun
Senior Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

Errol Roberts
Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

Server and Storage Virtualization with IP Storage

David Dale
Director, Industry Standards, NetApp

An Introduction to Key Management for Secure Storage

Walter Hubis
Software Architect, LSI Corporation

SNIA Certification Partner Representative 

HP Certified Professional Program

Stephanie Boger
HP Storage Solution Architect

3:45 -
4:30 p.m.
Simplifying BCP Using OS and Storage Virtualization

J. Wolfgang Goerlich, CISSP, CISA
Network Operations and Security Manager, Munder Capital Management

User
File Virtualization:  A School District's Way of Managing Unstructured Data

John Greiner
IT Manager/ Technology Consulting Lead, Temple Independent School District

User

Electric Company Powers Up the Storage Grid -- How Tucson Electric Saves Money, Energy and Time by Creating a Virtual Environment

Tony Edelbrock
Senior Systems Administrator, Tucson Electric Power Company

Chris Rima
Supervisor, IT Systems, Tucson Electric Power Company

User

Tech-Edge Track

SAS & SATA Combine to Change the Storage Market

Marty Czekalski
Senior Staff Program Manager, Seagate Technology

Harry Mason
Director, Industry Marketing, LSI Corporation

Storage Management: SMI-S to Management Frameworks

Mark Carlson
Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc

SNIA Tutorial Track: Green Storage SNIA Training Partner Representative

Storage Network Foundations Prep


Peter Coleman
Managing Director, Infinity IO

Growing the Green Storage Environment

Miklos Sandorfi
Chief Technology Officer, SEPATON, Inc.

Green IT

4:40 - 5:25 p.m.

Remote Storage Equals Safe Storage

Thomas Comella
Vice President of Technology & Information Systems and Chief Information Officer, Neighborhood Centers

Josh Schlanger
Director of Operations, Arsenal Digital

User

Panel Discussion: Not All Data Deduplication Solutions Are Alike

Moderator: Arun Taneja
Founder and Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group

Panelists:
Jered Floyd
Chief Technology Officer and  Founder, Permabit Technology

Miklos Sandorfi
Chief Technology Officer, SEPATON, Inc.

Jeff Tofano
Chief Technology Officer, Quantum Corporation

Neville Yates
Chief Technology Officer, Diligent Technologies

Defining Storage Solutions in the Data Center 2.0

Karen Dutch
General Manager, Advanced Storage Products, NEC Corporation of America
Tech-Edge Track

Ethernet Technology

Sunil Ahluwalia
Product Line Manager, LAN Access Division, Intel Corporation

Manoj Wadekar
Lead Architect, Data Center Ethernet, Intel Corporation

SNIA Tutorial Track: File Management

Green Storage I - Economics, Environment, Energy and Engineering

SW Worth
Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Green IT

A Crash Course In Wide Area Data Replication

Jacob Farmer
Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer

5:30 - 7:30 p.m. SNIA End-User Council Town Hall Meeting
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Welcome Reception


TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2008
Registration Open 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
7:45 -
8:45 a.m.
Breakfast
  General Sessions 8:00a.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.
Mark ShowersMonsanto's New Data Center: Responding to the Growing Demands for Actionable Information from Around the Globe
Mark Showers, Chief Information Officer, Monsanto Company

User
9:45 -
10:15 a.m.
Dave RobersonDiscontinuity for Ultimate Business Continuity
Dave Roberson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, StorageWorks Division, HP
SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
10:15 -
10:30 a.m.
Break 10:00 - 11:45 a.m.

SNIA Training Partner Representative

Storage Network Foundations Prep

Howard Goldstein
President, Howard Goldstein Associates Inc. (HGAI)
10:30 -
11:00 a.m.
Mark O'GaraToward a More Energy Efficient Data Center at Highmark: The Role of Technology
Mark O’Gara,
Vice President, Infrastructure Management, Highmark, Inc.

11:00 a.m. -
11:30 a.m.
Dr. Claudine SimsonContent Processing:  The Next Frontier in Data Security
Dr. Claudine Simson, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, LSI Corporation
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. The Greening of IT: Oxymoron or Journey to a New Reality?
Moderator: Ron Milton
, Executive Vice President, Computerworld

Panelists:

Andrew Fanara, Team Leader, ENERGY STAR® Product Specifications Development Group, USEPA
Mark O'Gara, Vice President, Infrastructure Management, Highmark, Inc.
Mark Showers, Chief Information Officer, Monsanto Company
Leighton C. “Chris” Wood, Jr., Director and Chief  Technology Officer, Global Storage Practice, Sun Microsystems
Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems

12:15 -
3:00 p.m.
Luncheon in the Expo
2:10 -
5:40 p.m.
Business Continuity / Data Protection Track Infrastructure / Data Center Track Virtualization Track Information Management Track Tech-Edge Track SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program 8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m

Hands-On Lab
2:10 -
2:55 p.m.

Analyst Perspectives Session

Bob Laliberte
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

What, When and Why -- Key Emerging Technologies

Ken Male
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TheInfoPro

The Role of Storage Virtualization in the Datacenter of the Future

Benjamin Woo
Vice President, Enterprise Storage System, IDC
  2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Quantum’s DXi7500 and Symantec NBU 6.5 Direct Copy - Empowering the Next Generation of Integrated Disk and Tape Architectures

Mark Eastman
, Director, Solutions Marketing, Quantum Corporation

Tyler Carter
, Product Marketing Manager, NBU Product Line, Symantec Corporation

Desktop, Nearline and Enterprise HDDs - What's the Difference?

Willis Whittington
Senior Manager Market Development, Seagate Technology

Best Practices for Innovation

Lynne VanArsdale
Senior Manager, Strategic Planning, Seagate Technology

SNIA Training Partner Representative

Storage Networking Management & Administration Prep.


Phil Huml
Senior Consultant, KnowledgeTransfer
2:35 PM - 2:55 PM
Leveraging Information Recovery Management to Improve Data Center TCO

Joseph Jeter
, Chief Sales Officer, Asigra, Inc.
3:05 -
3:50 p.m.
A Lesson in Data Protection for the SMB

Elena Olkhovskaya
PhD, Director, Information Technology, Holy Names University

Emerson Whatley
Principal Consultant and Practice Manager, ePaperless, LLC

User

The Leader of the Pack:  Fibre Channel Drives the Future of Storage

Tom Hammond-Doel
FCIA Vice-Chairman, Fibre Channel Industry Association

Green IT

Understanding the Benefits of File Virtualization and WAN Optimization Convergence

Rick Gillett
Vice President, Data Systems Architecture, F5 Networks

Can Your Information Management  Strategy Make You an Outlaw? What Information Governance Is and How You Can Address the Most Important Aspects of Managing Information Throughout Its Lifecycle

Aimee Williams
Product Marketing Manager, Information Governance, CA
3:05 PM - 3:25 PM
Entry Level iSCSI

Shahzada Sufyan
, Product Manager, HP StorageWorks Division

Storage Performance 101

Ray Lucchesi
President, Silverton Consulting

Marketing for Geeks: Why You Should Care About Storage Services

Harriet Pea
Marketing Consultant

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
HP's Utility Ready Storage Solution

Shawn Wagner
, WW Program Manager, HP Utility Ready Storage
4:00 -
4:45 p.m.

Growing Pains:  Making the Jump to an Enterprise Class Backup Strategy

Dave Stauffacher
System Administrator, Direct Supply, Inc.

User

Enabling the Dynamic Data Center

Hu Yoshida
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems

Lowering Cost and Improving Service Level with Storage Consolidation and Virtualization

Joseph Furmanski
Project Director, CCTS Engineering, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

User

When “Duct Tape” and Terabyte Disks Won’t Do – Growing Web 2.0 Environments to Multi-petabyte Scale

Mike Feinberg
Senior Vice President of the Technology Ventures Group, EMC Corporation
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
What is the eXtensible Access Method (XAM)?

Scott Ostapovich
, Chief Contributor to XAM API Architecture and Specification, EMC Corporation
The Storage Evolution: From Blocks, Files and Objects to Object Storage Systems

Christian Bandulet
Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems
SNIA Tutorial Track: Applications SNIA Training Partner Representative

Storage Networking Design & Assessment Prep.


Peter Coleman

Managing Director, Infinity IO
Recent Advances in WAN Acceleration Technologies

Joshua Tseng
Director, Technical Marketing, Riverbed Technology











4:25 PM - 4:45 PM
Why should you care about XAM?

David Martin
,
Co-Chair, XAM Initiative, Hewlett Packard
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Networking with the SNIA Technical Council
4:55 -
5:40 p.m.

Real-Life Data Protection Story:  The Process of Going Tape-Less

Lauren Whitehouse
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group


Tilak Dhar
Storage Administrator, Stanford University

Dan Stillmaker
Director of Storage and Backup Systems, Stanford University

Heidi Biggar
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Beyond Green-Wash:  IT Data Center Power, Cooling and Environmental Topics and Trends

Greg Schulz
Founder and Senior Analyst, The StorageIO Group

Green IT

Essential Requirements for Storage Virtualization: Availability, Performance, and Data Integrity

Doc D'Errico
Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Software Group, EMC Corporation
Rats Nests, Snow Drifts and Trailers:  Moving Storage Out of the Basement and onto a Unified Platform

Gregg Paulk
Director of Information Technologies, Anderson Center for Autism

User SMB
4:55 PM - 5:15 PM
EMC: Information Infrastructure Solutions for VMware

Keith Coughlin
, Senior VMware Specialist, EMC Corporation
Storage Consolidation with IP Storage

David Dale
Director, Industry Standards, NetApp
High Availability Using Fault Tolerance in the SAN

Mark Fleming
Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM
EMC Leadership in the SNIA XAM Standard

Steve Spataro
, Director, EMC Centera Product Marketing, EMC Corporation
5:40 -
8:40 p.m.
Dinner in the Expo


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2008
Registration Open 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
7:30 -
7:50 a.m.
IDC Breakfast Meeting: Got Files? The Expanding Options for File-Level Storage
Brad Nisbet, Program Manager, IDC
7:45 -
8:45 a.m.
Breakfast
7:50 - 8:10 a.m. IDC Breakfast Meeting: Enterprise SSDs
Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Disk Drives, IDC
8:10 - 8:30 a.m. IDC Breakfast Meeting: Storagenomics 2008 and Beyond    
Benjamin Woo, Vice President, Enteprise Storage Systems, IDC
. General Sessions 8:00a.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.
Doing More with Less: The Future of Digital Preservation in a Constrained Fiscal Environment
Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives and Chief Information Officer, Library of Congress

User
9:45 -
10:15 a.m.
Ed GoldmanThe Greening of IT at Marriott
Ed Goldman
, Vice President, Technology Strategy, Information Resources Shared Services, Marriott International, Inc.
SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.

SNIA Certification Overview

Jeanne Douglass
SNIA Education Program Manager
10:15 -
10:45 a.m.
Andy MonshawNext Generation Information Infrastructure
Andy Monshaw, General Manager, IBM System Storage
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.

SNIA Training Partner Representative

Storage Network Foundations Prep

Neil Edmunds
Technical Director, Solution Technology
10:45 -
11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 -
11:30 a.m.
Jim SwartzThe Greening of the Data Center
Jim Swartz, Chief Information Officer, Sybase, Inc.

User
11:30 a.m. -
Noon
Tom GeorgensTransform your Data Center - The Path to a Transparent Infrastructure
Tom Georgens, President and Chief Operating Officer, NetApp
Noon -
12:30 p.m.
William KramerNERSC - Extreme Storage and Computation for Science
William Kramer, Division Deputy and General Manager, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

User
12:30 -
3:00 p.m.
Luncheon in the Expo
2:10 -
5:40 p.m.
Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Track Infrastructure / Data Center Track Virtualization Track Managing Complexity Track SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage Management SNIA Tutorial Track: Security SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Management SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program 8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m

Hands-On Lab
2:10 -
2:55 p.m.

Fault Tolerant Storage within an EMR Environment

JoAnne Ruh
Vice President of Information Technology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute

User

Realistic Approaches to Address Power and Cooling Challenges Today

Mark Peters
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Green IT

Challenges and Solutions to Storage IO in Virtualized Server Environments

Gunna Marripudi
Staff Product Marketing Manager, QLogic  Corporation

What Do You Do When Your User Base Doubles and Your Storage Budget Stays the Same?

Ian Erikson
Client Technology Specialist III, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

User

Storage Resource Management -- Managing SAN Costs and Complexity

Jerry Duggan
Senior Software Architect, Hewlett-Packard
Storage Security:  Learning from Others Experiences

Moderator:
Blair Semple

Security Evangelist, NetApp

Panelists:
David Murray
Chief Information Security Officer, Genworth Mortgage Insurance

Dave Stauffacher
CIS System Administrator, Direct Supply, Inc.

Neil Strand
Storage Engineer, Legg Mason
Deduplication Methods for Achieving Data Efficiency

Devin Hamilton
Principal Systems Engineer, Storage Architect, Data Domain

SNIA Training Partner Representative

Storage Networking Management & Admin. Prep.

Peter Colemann
Managing Director, Infinity IO

3:05 -
3:50 p.m.
Peeling Back the Data Protection Onion:  How to Use Multi-Layered Protection to Meet Data Availability

Bill Peldzus
Vice President of Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.

Is Your Data Center as Efficient as You Think It Is? - Accurately Measuring and Meeting Your Energy Requirements

Tony Hampel
Director, Product Management, Brocade

Green IT

Storage Virtualization:  Beyond the Bland Debate of Where to Virtualize

Eric Schott
Senior Director of Product Management, Dell

Transforming the Data Center

Sean Derrington
Director, Storage Management and CDP/R, Data Center Management Group, Symantec Corporation

Green IT
SRM - Can You Get What You Want?

John Webster
Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata

TCG Trusted Storage Specifications

Jason Cox
Software Engineer and System Architect, Seagate Technology Research

Best Practices for Long-Term Retention of Digital Information

Michael Peterson
President, Strategic Research Corporation

Gary Zasman
Consulting Practice Lead and Senior ILM Consultant, Americas, NetApp
4:00 -
4:45 p.m.

Remaining in Compliance When Preparing for and Recovering from a Real Life Disaster:  One Broker Dealer's Experience

John Michaels
Chief Technology Officer, Maxim Group LLC

User SMB

Strategic Architecture - Stepping Stone to Aligning IT and Your Business

Scott Dennull
Director, Infrastructure & Support Services, CareSource

User

How Classified Ventures Saved $1 Million Deploying Highly Virtualized Utility Storage

Joe Giannetti, Vice President of Corporate Technology, Classified Ventures

User

SAN Performance Management in Large and Complex Data Centers

Scott Fuhrman
Senior Systems Engineer, Supervalu

User

The Real-World State of Storage Management

Julie Ryan
Director of Alliances, LSI Corporation

SCSI Security Nuts and Bolts

Ralph Weber
President, ENDL Texas
Records Managers and Storage Managers Speak: Get the Real Story Behind ILM

Moderator:
John Webster
Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata

Panelists:
Jenny Jolinski
Manager, Corporate Records, Darden Restaurants

Wendy Betts
Manager of the Distributed Systems Storage Management, Hewitt Associates

Lynn Patrick Herbert
Manager, Sector Command Media

Marty LeFebvre
Application Hosting Lead, North America, Tata Consultancy Services
SNIA Training Partner Representative

Storage Networking Design & Assessment Prep.

Phil Huml
Senior Consultant, Knowledge Transfer
4:55 -
5:40 p.m.
Next-Generation Data Protection – Melding Old and New Worlds

Dan Cobb
Chief Technology Officer, Information Management Software, EMC Corporation

FCoE:  A Smooth Ride

Pompey Nagra
Senior Manager, Ethernet Product Marketing, QLogic  Corporation

Green IT

Power to the People: Virtualization Know-How, a Powerful Approach in Meeting Business' Ever Changing Challenges

Rich Clifton
Vice President and General Manager, Networked Storage Business Units, NetApp
Architecting Your Support Ecosystem to Survive and Thrive in Hyper-Growth

Rusty Walther
Senior Vice President of Global Support, NetApp

User SMB
Storage Management Within The NEW ITIL Version 3 Context

Dr. D. A. Robinson
Consulting Computer Scientist, American ITIL Ltd.
Information Security and IT Compliance

Roger Cummings
Technical Director, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Symantec Corporation

Frank Bunn
Senior Solutions Marketing Manager; EMEA Solutions Marketing, Branch/ Niederlassung, Symantec Corporation


SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development
Building Magnificent Technical Presentations

Howard Goldstein
President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc
5:40 -
8:30 p.m.
Cocktail Reception and Gala Evening
"Best Practices in Storage Awards" Program, Dinner & Entertainment


THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 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
8:30 a.m. -
Noon
Security Track Infrastructure / Data Center Track Managing Complexity Track SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Management SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage SNIA Tutorial Track: File Management SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
8:30 -
9:15 a.m.
Data Protection and Fabric-Based Encryption

Roger Bouchard
Worldwide Security Practice Lead, Brocade
The Green Data Center:  More than a Social Responsibility -  A Foundation for Growth and Economic Gain

Rich Lechner
Vice President, Optimizing IT, IBM Corporation

Green IT

Going Green?  Saving the World One Byte at a Time

Brian Brockway
Senior Director, Product Management, CommVault

Green IT

The Secret Sauce of ILM

Bob Rogers
Chief Technology Officer, Application Matrix, LLC
InfiniBand Technology Overview

Dror Goldenberg
Director of Architecture, Mellanox Technologies
Solid State Storage for the Enterprise

Woody Hutsell
Executive Vice President, Texas Memory Systems

Brian McKean
Storage Architect, LSI Corporation
High Availability and Disaster Recovery for NAS Systems

Paul Massiglia
Chief Technology Strategist, agami Systems, Inc.
 
9:25 -
10:10 a.m.
Security Considerations Bring Software-plus-Service to the Enterprise

Russell Dietz
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hifn, Inc.
Best Practices for Achieving Power Efficiency in the Data Center

Chad Smykay
Storage Architect, Rackspace Managed Hosting

Green IT

Automation Triple Play:  Storage, Servers and Network Devices

Kaylan Ramanathan
Director of Product Marketing, Storage Automation Solution, HP

Classification: The Cornerstone for Compliance and Cost-Driven Information Management

Edgar St.Pierre
Senior Technologist, EMC Corporation

Sheila Childs
Director of Marketing, EMC Corporation
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE)

John Hufferd
Senior Executive Director of Technology, Brocade Communications
Continous Available Commodity Storage

Dr. Rekha Singhal
Visiting Scientist, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)

Zia Saquib
Director, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)

SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization/ Standards 9:25 - 11:05 a.m.

SNIA Training Partner Representative

Storage Network Foundations Prep

Neil Edmunds

Technical Director, Solution Technolgy
SMI-S: Building the Case for a Standard

Paul von Behren
Chief Technologist, Symantec

Mike WalkerSenior Technical Staff Member, Storage Software Architecture and Standards Systems and Technology Group, IBM Corporation
10:20 -
11:05 a.m.

Stored Data Encryption:  Securing Your Information Infrastructure

David Black, PhD
Senior Technologist, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation

Using Intelligent SAN Features to Increase Power Efficiency in the Data Center

Omar Sultan
Solution Manager, Cisco Systems
The Value of WAN Optimization in the Enterprise

Garry Moreau
Senior Staff Alliance Consultant, Ciena Corporation

Storage Considerations for Database Archiving

Julie Lockner
Vice President Sales Operations, Solix Technologies, Inc
PCI Express and Storage

Ron Emerick
IO Architect, Sun Microsystems
Advanced iSCSI Management Capabilities

Gene Nagle
Director of Technical Marketing, iStor Networks
eXtensible Access Method (XAM) - A new fixed content API

Mark Carlson
Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
11:15 -
Noon
Adding Encryption to Your SAN

Niels Reimers
Technical Advisor, PMC-Sierra
Big Storage for Small Businesses

David Fusfeld
Director, Information Technology, Acsys, Inc.

User SMB

Transforming Business Workflow through High Speed File Transfer Technology and Scalable Solutions

Michelle Munson
President, Aspera, Inc.

SNIA Tutorial Track: Security Optimizing TCP/IP for High Performance WANs

Joe White
Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks
Consolidating Primary and Secondary Data Storage

John Matze, Vice President of Business Development, Hifn, Inc.
Best Practices in Managing Virtualized Environments

Mike Matchett
Director, Product Marketing and Management, Akorri
 
How E-Discovery Will Impact Your Life as a Storage Professional

David Stevens
Storage Manager, Carnegie Mellon University
Noon Conference Concludes


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