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Fall 2006 Conference Agenda

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2006
Registration Open 8:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Open

9:30-11:55 a.m.	Career Development Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	Industry Primer Track	Industry Analyst Track
9:30-10:15 a.m.	Improving Technical Team Performance for Maximum Results Patty Then, Principal Product Manager, Storage Recovery Management, CA	Storage Networking Standards: Recent Developments David Black, Senior Technologist, EMC Corporation Steve Wilson, Director of Technology and Standards, Brocade Communications, Inc.	Get Up to Speed in Storage—for Networking Professionals Elaine Silber, Technical Trainer, Firefly Communications	What's Keeping Storage Managers Up At Night? Trends, Challenges and Options Joe Milardo, Director, EMC Education Services	Reducing Data Protection TCO While Increasing Recoverability with Next Gen Data Protection Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting
10:20-11:05 a.m.	Technical Team Work and Team Leadership Howard Goldstein, Founder, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc.	Best Practices for Developing and Deploying Standard-Based Products Hope Hines, Solutions Architect, Patni Computer Systems Rajat Mathur, Solutions Architect, Patni Computer Systems	The Future is Intelligent Tiered Storage David Deming, President and CTO, Solutions Technology	Storage Industry and Technology Overview Greg Schulz, Founder & Sr. Analyst, The StorageIO Group	Data Classification Bringing Order to Chaotic Storage Environment Simon Robinson, Sector Head, Storage, The 451 Group
11:10-11:55 a.m.	Women Leaders in Storage Networking Deborah Johnson, CEO, Infinity I/O	Green Eggs and XAM: A Mandate for Interoperability Jered Floyd, Vice President of Development and Co-founder, Permabit	Advanced Data Sharing Technologies—Part I Philippe Nicolas, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager EMEA, Symantec; Chairman and Founder, SNIA France Jonathan Goldick, CTO, ONStor	Storage Trends in Enterprise Accounts Mark Shirman, President and CEO, GlassHouse Technologies	Important Findings for Professional Services and Strategy for Information Management & Data Storage Mounil Patel, Research Director, Information Security & Services, Aberdeen Group

11:55 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Luncheon

12:00-5:00 p.m.

Pre-Conference Golf Outing

12:40-5:25 p.m.	End-User Case Studies Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	Data Protection/Security Track	Analyst Briefings
12:40-12:55 p.m.		SNIA Education Overview
1:00-1:45 p.m.	Managing a Backup and Recovery Project—From Soup to Nuts! Sandy Rideout, Storage Engineer, L.L. Bean, Inc.	Desktop and Enterprise Disk Drives—A World of Difference Willis Whittington, Sr. Manager, Interface Planning, Seagate Technology	Disk and Tape Backup Mechanisms Michael Fishman, Technologist, EMC	Networking Technologies: Concepts in Internal and External Networked Storage Howard Goldstein, Founder, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc.	Think Like a Hacker: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself from Database Attacks Jack Hembrough, President and CEO, Application Security, Inc.	1:00-1:05 p.m. Introduction John McArthur, Group Vice President and General Manager, Information Infrastructure and Enabling Technologies, IDC 1:05-1:20 p.m. State of the Storage Industry Dave Reinsel, Program Director, Storage Research, IDC 1:20-1:45 p.m. Built For Content: A New Breed of Storage Solutions Richard Villars, Vice President, Storage Systems, IDC
1:55-2:40 p.m.	How Clustered Storage and Ethernet Technologies Deliver Wire-Speed Throughput on a Bare Bones Budget Greg Adamietz, Senior Director Corporate Alliances, Valtus Imagery Services	Storage Consolidation with IP Storage David Dale, Industry Evangelist, Network Appliance	Disk-based Restoration Technologies Michael Rowan, CTO, Revivio, Inc.	IP Storage Protocols—iSCSI John Hufferd, Sr. Executive Director, Brocade Communications, Inc. Ahmad Zamer, Storage Technology Initiatives Manager, Intel Corporation	"IT", You're "it": Recent Changes in Litigation Focus Attention on IT Department's Procedure and Process to Respond to Discovery Donald Wochna, Chief Legal Officer, Vestige Ltd.	1:55-2:15 p.m. Enterprise HDDs: Status Quo is Not an Option John Rydning, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drives & Components, IDC 2:20-2:40 p.m. Tape's Evolving Role in the Data Protection Market and the Impact of Virtual Tape Robert Amatruda, Research Manager, Tape and Removable Storage, IDC
2:50-3:35 p.m.	Experiences with Oracle RAC on Windows and Linux Using FC and iSCSI SANs Steve Remsing, Sr. System Administrator, The Dow Chemical Company	Identifying and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks: Taking Your Existing Backup System to the Next Level Jacob Farmer, Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer Services	Storage Virtualization I—What, Why, Where and How Rob Peglar, Vice President, Technology, Xiotech Corp.	Fibre Channel Technologies: Current and Future M. K. Jibbe, Manager of Test Architect and Technology Team, Interoperability Architect, LSI Logic (ESG)	Drive-Level Security: Innovation for Securing Data at Rest Dr. Robert Thibadeau, Director of Security Architectures, Seagate Research	2:50-3:10 p.m. Emerging End-User Trends in Storage Provisioning, Financing & Portfolio Management Building the Pyramids Joseph Pucciarelli, Research Director, Pricing and Leasing Evaluation Services, IDC 3:15-3:35 p.m. Disk-based Data Protection: Revealing the Voice of the Customer Robert Gray, Research Vice President, Worldwide Storage Systems Research, IDC Laura DuBois, Research Director, Storage Software, IDC
3:45-4:30 p.m.	Leave No Data Behind: Getting Information from Various Formats on the Same Page Lee Pittman, Digital Manager, Kodak's Conversion Services, Eastman Kodak Company	The Importance of Being Consistent Rick Carlson, Vice President of Engineering, TimeSpring Software Corporation		SAS & SATA Combine to Change the Storage Market Martin Czekalski, Emerging Architecture Program Manager, Seagate Technology; Vice President, SCSI Trade Association Harry Mason, Director, Industry Marketing, Storage Standard Products Division, LSI Logic Corporation; President, SCSI Trade Association	How to Combat Identify Theft and Data Loss Diamond Lauffin, Senior Executive VP, Nexsan Technologies	ESG Snapshot: Storage Systems Trends iSCSI: Mark Bowker, Analyst, ESG VTI: Heidi Biggar, Analyst, ESG Next Generation File Systems/NAS: Brian Garrett, Analyst, ESG
4:40-5:25 p.m.	Effective Email Management Practices in High-Volume Traffic Environments Jim Brady, Email Administrator, Enterprise Information Services, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Security III: FC-SP—Preparing to Implement the Fibre Channel Security Protocol Larry Hofer, PE, Office of the CTO, Security Architect, McDATA Corp.	The SNIA-EUC Town Hall Meeting (through 6:15 p.m.) Hosted by the SNIA End User Council and Wendy Betts, Manager, Distributed Systems Storage Management, Hewitt Associates; Chair of the SNIA End User Council Governing Board	PCI Express, Infiniband and Storage Ron Emerick, IO Technologist, Shared I/O and Storage Applications, Sun Microsystems Paul Millard, Chief Technologist, Xyratex Corp.	The Thousand Year Archive Tom Cook, President & CEO, Permabit	ESG Snapshot: The Evolution of Data Protection Recovery Management: Lauren Whitehouse, Analyst, ESG DR: Bob Laliberte, Analyst, ESG Branch Office Issues and Solutions: Brian Garrett, Analyst, ESG

1:30-2:30 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 1: Storage Network Certification Overview
Rich Mitchell, Institute for Software Advancement

2:30-4:30 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 1: Storage Network Foundations
Rich Mitchell, Institute for Software Advancement

2:30-3:30 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 2: Storage Network Sales Qualification
Deborah Johnson, CEO, Infinity I/O

5:30-7:00 p.m.

Speed Dating With IDC: A Networking Event at SNW
Participating IDC Analysts: Bill Roch, Research Director, Leasing and Pricing Evaluation Services
Brad Nisbet, Program Manager
Dave Reinsel, Program Director, Storage Research
Doug Chandler, Program Director, Storage Software and Services
John Rydning, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drives & Components
Laura DuBois, Research Director, Storage Software
Natalya Yezhkova, Senior Research Analyst
Rhoda Phillips, Research Manager, Storage Software
Richard Villars, Vice President, Storage Systems
Robert Gray, Research Vice President, Worldwide Storage Systems Research
Vivian Tero, Senior Research Analyst, Compliance Infrastructure
Wolfgang Schlichting, Research Director, Removable Storage
Robert Amatruda, Research Manager, Tape and Removable Storage
Joseph Pucciarelli, Research Director, Pricing and Leasing Evaluation Services

7:00-9:00 p.m.

Welcome Reception

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2006
Registration Open 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Open

7:45- 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast

8:30-8:45 a.m.

Opening Remarks

8:45-9:30 a.m.

Storage Implications for Enterprises in a Personal Media World
Paul Saffo, Forecaster, Strategist and Director, Institute For The Future

9:00-10:00 a.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 1: Storage Network Certification Overview
Howard Goldstein, Founder, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc.
David Deming, President and CTO, Solutions Technology

9:30-10:00 a.m.

Information-centric IT: The Changing Landscape of IT Service Delivery
Howard Elias, Executive Vice President, Global Services & Resource Management Software Group, EMC Corporation

10:00-10:15 a.m.

Break

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 1: Storage Network Foundations
Howard Goldstein, Founder, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc.
David Deming, President and CTO, Solutions Technology

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 2: Storage Networking Assessment, Planning & Design
LeRoy Budnik, Managing Partner, CEO, Knowledge Transfer

10:15-10:45 a.m.

Turner Broadcasting System and CNN Streamline Data Management and Maximize Resources with SAN Archiving and Storage Solutions
Clyde Smith, SVP of Broadcast Engineering, Research and Development, Quality Assurance and Metrics, Turner Broadcasting System

10:45-11:15 a.m.

Datacenter Automation—What Your Storage Environment Will Look Like Five Years From Now . . .
Ash Ashutosh, Vice President and Chief Technologist, HP StorageWorks Division

11:15-11:45 a.m.

Ensuring User Continuity Through High Availability Technology
Charlie Pelton, Chief Information Officer & Vice President, Market Street Mortgage

11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

CIO/CTO End-User Panel
Moderator: Paul Saffo, Forecaster, Strategist and Director, Institute For The Future
Panelists: André Mendes, CIO, Special Olympics; Charlie Pelton, Chief Information Officer & Vice President, Market Street Mortgage; Clyde Smith, SVP of Broadcast Engineering, Research and Development, Quality Assurance and Metrics, Turner Broadcasting System; Ezequiel Rodriguez, Director of Corporate Development, Telefónica Internacional S.A.

12:45-2:00 p.m.

Special Lunch Forum—The ESG 360 Panel
Moderator: Steve Duplessie, Founder & Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Panelists: Bob Laliberte, Analyst, ESG; Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst, ESG; and Brian Babineau, Analyst, ESG

1:50-5:40 p.m.	End-User Case Studies Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	Virtualization/Tiered Storage Track	Grid/Utility Computing Track
1:50-2:05 p.m.		SNIA Education Overview
2:10-2:55 p.m.	Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks Utilization in Shipboard Tactical Environments Les Martin, Tactical Systems Engineer, U.S. Navy Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems	The SNIA-EUC: 2006 End User Survey: Focus on Interoperability. So What's the Problem? Norman Owens, SNIA EUC Vice Chair, The SNIA End User Council	Security I—Encryption (ABCs of Data Encryption for Storage) Eric Hibbard, CISSP, Senior Director, Data Networking, Hitachi Data Systems	Information Classification: The Cornerstone to Information Management Sheila Childs, Director, Archive Marketing, Information Management, EMC Software Group; Storage Networking Industry Association, Chair Emerita, SNIA Board of Directors	Fear Factor: Deploying and Managing a Virtualized, Tiered-Storage Environment Without Being a Daredevil Hubert Yoshida, CTO, Hitachi Data Systems	Storage in a Grid/Utility Storage Computing Environment—Panel on Practical Experience Moderator: Simon Robinson, Sector Head, Storage, The 451 Group Panelists: Paul Strong, Distinguished Research Scientist, eBay; Vincent Franceschini, Senior Director, Future Technologies, Technology Office, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation and SNIA Grid Initiative Chairman; Peter Krey, Head of Research & Engineering, Compute Back Bone, JPMC; Alan Yoder, Senior Technical Staff, NetApp and Co-Chair, Open Grid Forum, SN-CG; J.S. Hurley, PhD, Sr. Manager, Distributed Software and Systems Integration (DSSI) Group Head, Grid Evaluation and Implementation, The Boeing Company
3:05-3:50 p.m.	Best Practices for Managing SAN and Storage Resources John Becsi, VP, Technical Manager, Systems Engineering, Architecture & Analysis, Bank of America	The SNIA-EUC: Application Recovery and Replication Consistency Robert L. Stevenson, Managing Director, Storage Research, TheInfoPro (TIP)	Security II: Preparing for a Storage Security Audit LeRoy Budnik, Managing Partner, CEO, Knowledge Transfer	Archives, Backups and NAS The Open Archive Andres Rodriguez, Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Archivas	Achieving the Promise of Multi-Tier Storage Paul Massiglia, Director of Technology, agámi Systems	Grid—A Key Scale-Out Component to the Virtual Data Center of the Future Matthew Brisse, Technology Strategist, Office of the CTO, Dell
4:00-4:45 p.m.	NAS, Meet SAN. SAN, Meet NAS Clif Morgan, Southeast Regional Director, CitadelPerimeter (formerly Technical Support Manager, Oxford University Press, USA)	The SNIA-EUC ARMA Panel: Get the Real Story Behind ILM Moderator: John Webster, Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata Panelists: Marty LeFebvre, VP of Technology Strategy, Nielsen Media Research; Wendy Betts, Manager, Distributed Systems Storage Management, Hewitt Associates; Chair of the SNIA End User Council Governing Board; Jenny R. Jolinski, CRM, CDIA+ Manager, Corporate Records, Darden Restaurants; Lynn Patrick Herbert, CRM, Records Manager, Integrated Systems, Northrop Grumman Corporation	Security IV—To Catch a Thief: Digital Forensics in Storage Networks Richard Austin, Senior Storage Security Architect, Hewlett Packard	Calculating the ROI of Information Lifecycle Management Bob Rogers, CTO, Application Matrix, LLC	Moving, Managing and Storing Data without Disrupting the User Experience: The Need for File Storage Virtualization Alan Baratz, CEO, NeoPath Networks	Intelligent Storage Grids—The Next Wave of Advanced Storage Infrastructure Gary Francis, Senior Vice President, Grid Strategy, Crosswalk, Inc.
4:00-4:45 p.m.		End-User Case Studies Track			Data Protection/Security Track
4:55-5:40 p.m.	You've Saved My Data. What About My Operating System? Randy Pool, Consultant/Senior Engineer, Northwest Airlines	Consolidated Backup Over the Network (a.k.a. "Stickin' it to the MAN") Marcellus Tabor, Manager of Storage Operations, Yahoo!	Security V: Data Disposal—Gone for Good Eric Schafer, VP Sales and Marketing, Data Security, Inc.	Engaging the Business: Requirements for Long-term Retention and Archive Michael Peterson, President, Strategic Research Corporation	Stay Productive by Protecting Files as They Change—In Real Time! Chris Stakutis, CTO, Continuous Data Protection for Files, IBM	Realizing the Benefits of Utility Storage David Scott, President and CEO, 3PAR

2:15-3:15 p.m.

3:15-5:15 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 1: Storage Network Foundations
Howard Goldstein, Founder, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc.
David Deming, President and CTO, Solutions Technology

3:15-5:15 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 2: Storage Network Management/Administration
Rich Mitchell, Institute for Software Advancement

5:40-8:40 p.m.

Expo with Dinner, Solutions Center and Technology Showcase

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2006
Registration Open 7:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Open

7:45-8:45 a.m.

Breakfast

8:45-9:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9:00-9:30 a.m.

1-800-FLOWERS.COM End-User Case Study
Enzo Micali, Senior Vice President & CIO, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.

9:30-10:00 a.m.

Integrating Storage Strategies for Data Center and Branch Offices
George Kurian, VP/GM, Application Delivery Business, Cisco Systems, Inc.

10:00-10:30 a.m.

Coping with the Problem that Every Business Wants—Exponential Growth
Paul Strong, Distinguished Research Scientist, eBay

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 1: Storage Networking Management/Administration
Rich Mitchell, Institute for Software Advancement

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 2: Storage Architect—Assessment, Planning & Design
LeRoy Budnik, Managing Partner, CEO, Knowledge Transfer

10:30-10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45-11:15 a.m.

Expect the Unexpected: The Next Generation of Data Protection
Eula L. Adams, Senior Vice President, Global Storage Practice, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

11:15-11:45 a.m.

Why High-Speed SAN Backup Isn't Rocket Science at Patrick Air Force Base: Outrunning High Winds in Protecting Critical Launch Telemetry Data
Glenn Exline, Manager of Advanced Technology, Computer Sciences, Raytheon

11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Accenture's IT Transformation Journey
Vid Byanna, Executive Director of Global Infrastructure, Accenture

12:15-2:00 p.m.

Expo with Luncheon, Solutions Center and Technology Showcase

1:50-5:40 p.m.	End-User Case Studies Track	End-User Case Studies Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	Regulatory/Compliance Track	Data Management Track	ILM Track
1:50-2:05 p.m.		SNIA Education Overview	SNIA Education Overview
2:10-2:55 p.m.	High Availability and Data Protection in Hurricane Territory Ben Weinberger, Director of IT, Ruden McClosky	Storage Networking for an SMB—Tales From A One-Man Storage Team John Hennen, Systems Engineer, Direct Supply	NAS and iSCSI Technology Overview Wolfgang Singer, Member of Technical Experts Council, IBM Austria	SRM: Delivering End-User Value Today John Kelly, Storage Software Product Marketing Manager, Hewlett Packard; Vice Chair, SNIA Storage Management Forum	E-mail Archiving: A Critical Component In Your Compliance Or Risk Management Strategy Kim Madler, Manager of Global Escalations, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Symantec	Understanding & Managing Unstructured Information Robert Brown, CEO, BlackBall, Inc.	The Journey to ILM: A Vision and a Roadmap Thomas Roloff, VP and CTO, Technology Solutions, EMC Corporation
3:05-3:50 p.m.	Penson Financial Implements ILM and Disaster Recovery with New Storage System Matt Pittman, Director of Enterprise Systems, Penson Financial	An ITIL Perspective on Storage Management Dr. D. Akira Robinson, Consulting Computer Scientist, SPAWAR—NMCI, Department of Navy	Unraveling SAN Tools Brandy Barton, Training Manager, Lead Instructor, Finisar Medusa Labs Kevin Przybocki, Co-founder and VP Sales and Marketing, Anue Systems, Inc.	Writing a Storage Management Application RFP John Webster, Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata	Ace Your Next Audit! How to Develop a Compliance and Litigation-Ready Storage System Joe Romanowski, VP of Product Strategy, ZANTAZ	Plotting the Demise of Duplicate Files—The Secret Weapons of Next Generation File Reporting Sudhakar Muddu, CEO and Founder, Kazeon	Data Lifecyle Management Dan Crain, Chief Technology Officer, Brocade Communications
4:00-4:45 p.m.		Where Did All My Storage Go? An Accounting Framework for Storage Provisioning Bill Eddins, UNIX-SAN Team Lead, The Regence Group Jackson Shea, Technical Lead for Storage Administration, The Regence Group	Storage Performance Testing Woody Hutsell, EVP, Texas Memory Systems	Gimme the Money—Best Practices Integrating Diverse Storage Technologies Andrea Chiaffitelli, Director, New Services Development, AT&T	Holistic Approaches to Meeting Today's Governance and Compliance Requirements Steve Gray, Senior Architect, Center for Technology Governance and Compliance, Sun Microsystems	Solution Templates for Email Archiving, Management and Recovery Roy D'Souza, CTO and Co-founder, Mimosa Systems	ILM for the SMB Richard Bocchinfuso, VP, Technology Solutions, MTI Technology, Inc.
4:55-5:40 p.m.	Architecting and Maintaining a Virtual Storage Environment Laura Myles, Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Storage Virtualization II—Effective Use of Virtualization Rob Peglar, Vice President, Technology, Xiotech Corp.	Survey: Networked File Systems and File Servers (Advanced Data Sharing Tutorial—Part II) Jonathan Goldick, CTO, ONStor Philippe Nicolas, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager EMEA, Symantec; Chairman and Founder, SNIA France	End User Requirements: Storage Management Needs You! Robert Callaghan, Senior Product Manager, Storage, Security & Management Technologies, Quantum Corporation; Chair, SNIA Storage Management Forum	Law & Order: I/O Power Finds the Smoking Gun in Millions of Forgotten Files Kevin Jacobs, Vice President of Technology Services, Document Technologies, Inc.	Data Classification and ILM Rob Lancaster, VP, Channel Development, Fast Search & Transfer	Separating Promise from Reality: The Truth Behind ILM Russ Kennedy, Senior Director, Marketing and Strategy, Pillar Data Systems Brenda Zawatski, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Pillar Data Systems

2:15-3:30 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 1: Study Hall/Chalk Talk
SNW Training Partners: LeRoy Budnik, David Deming, Howard Goldstein, Deborah Johnson & Rich Mitchell

2:30-3:30 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center Track 2: Storage Networking Foundations
Deborah Johnson, CEO, Infinity I/O

4:00-7:00 p.m.

Expo, Solutions Center and Technology Showcase Open

7:00-9:30 p.m.

Gala Evening with "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program, Dinner and Entertainment

9:30-11:00 p.m.

Post-Gala Reception and SNW "Salsa Party"

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2006
Registration Open 7:30-10:00 a.m.

8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

SNIA Certification Testing Center open

7:30-8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	End-User Case Studies Track	Analyst Perspectives Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	SNIA Tutorial Track	SMB Track	Data Protection/Security Track
8:30-9:15 a.m.	BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee—Implementing ILM for Legal and Compliance Requirements Bob Venable, Manager, Enterprise Systems, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee	Convergence of Storage, Networking & Security John Rotchford, Managing Director, Strategic Advisory Services International	Automating Information Lifecycle for IT Mark Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems; Chairman, SNIA Technical Council Ray Dunn, Industry Standards Marketing Manager, SNIA Board of Directors	The Secret Sauce of ILM—The Professional ILM Assessment LeRoy Budnik, Managing Partner, CEO, Knowledge Transfer	What SMBs Aren't Telling You—And Why You Should Listen Anyway Sajai Krishnan, General Manager, StoreVault Division, Network Appliance	The Evolving Data Protection Landscape for a Windows World Jason Buffington, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft
8:30-9:15 a.m.						Network/Applications Track
9:25-10:10 a.m.	The SmugMug Case Study: Store It Like Your Success Depends on It or Storage Best Practices for Independent Companies to Compete with Major Players Without Raising Massive Capital Andrew Gibbons, Director of Operations, SmugMug, Inc.	Storage and More: Server, Networking, Security and Storage Pros Discuss Their Technology Roadmaps, Spending Plans and Vendor Relationships. Is Convergence Ahead? Ken Male, CEO, TheInfoPro (TIP)	Storage Grid: Relevance and Overview Abbott Schindler, Senior Technologist, HP StorageWorks	ILM: Tiered Storage & The Need For Classification Nik Simpson, Director of Product Marketing, Scentric, Inc.	SMB Considerations When Deploying SAN John Igoe, Founder and CTO, SilverBack Technologies Inc.	TCP/IP Optimizations for Block Storage Joseph White, Technical Director, McDATA
10:20-11:05 a.m.	AutoTrader.com's Highly Flexible Datastore Keeps on Truckin' Mark Juliano, Unix Systems Manager, AutoTrader.com	Just-in-Time Data Protection Tom Petrocelli, President, Technology Alignment Partners	Metropolitan and Wide Area Storage Networks Stephen Barr, Director of Solutions Engineering, Ciena	Object-based Storage Device (OSD)—Architecture and Systems Erik Riedel, Department Head, Interfaces and Architecture, Seagate Research; Co-chair, SNIA OSD Technical Work Group	The SMB Roadmap to Storage Success Matt Wolken, Director, Enterprise Storage Division, NEC Corporation of America	Achieving Scalability and Cost Efficiencies in Storage for Media, Entertainment and Web Services Sudhir Srinivasan, Chief Technology Officer, IBRIX
11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	SAN Strategy and Acquisition: How to Get Started Donna Manley, IT Senior Director, University of Pennsylvania	The Customer Speaks: Users' View of the Server Arena Bob Gill, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro (TIP)	Unifying the Network Fabric with 10-Gigabit Ethernet Allen Light, Product Line Manager, Broadcom Corp. Matthew Brisse, Technology Strategist, Office of the CTO, Dell Ian Johnson, Chief Scientist, Xyratex	Lossless Data Compression in Storage Networks Tony Summers, Senior Applications Engineer, Comtech AHA	Small Business Needs to Practice Like the Enterprise Boys! Tom Mackowski, Vice President of Product Management, Iron Mountain Digital	Hitting the Moving Target: Meeting the IT Challenge of the Mobile Workforce Charles Foley, General Manager, Packeteer

12:00 p.m.

Conference Concludes