TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2008
Registration Open 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
7:45 -
8:45 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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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. |
Monsanto's New Data Center: Responding to the Growing Demands for Actionable Information from Around the Globe
Mark Showers, Chief Information Officer, Monsanto Company
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9:45 -
10:15 a.m. |
Discontinuity 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. |
Toward a More Energy Efficient Data Center at Highmark: The Role of Technology
Mark O’Gara, Vice President, Infrastructure Management, Highmark, Inc.
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11:00 a.m. -
11:30 a.m. |
Content 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
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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 |
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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
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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

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The Leader of the Pack: Fibre Channel Drives the Future of Storage
Tom Hammond-Doel
FCIA Vice-Chairman, Fibre Channel Industry Association
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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
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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.
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Enabling the Dynamic Data Center
Hu Yoshida
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems
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Lowering Cost and Improving Service Level with Storage Consolidation and Virtualization
Joseph Furmanski
Project Director, CCTS Engineering, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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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
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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
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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
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Recent Advances in WAN Acceleration Technologies
Joshua Tseng
Director, Technical Marketing, Riverbed Technology
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4:25 PM - 4:45 PM
Why should you care about XAM?
David Martin,
Co-Chair, XAM Initiative, Hewlett Packard
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| 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
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Beyond Green-Wash: IT Data Center Power, Cooling and Environmental Topics and Trends
Greg Schulz
Founder and Senior Analyst, The StorageIO Group
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Essential Requirements for Storage Virtualization: Availability, Performance, and Data Integrity
Doc D'Errico
Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Software Group, EMC Corporation
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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
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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 |