10/26/2010
7:45 am - 8:20 am	Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:20 am - 8:30 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30 am - 9:15 am	Information Overload: How to Tame Exploding Volumes of Corporate Data With our voracious appetites for all things digital -- email, web data, paperless initiatives and more -- a unique set of circumstances are conspiring to create corporate information overload that burdens IT. And now – more than ever -- the technology manager and team are expected to just deal with it on time and with limited resources. With today's tight budgets, long gone are the days of simply buying more storage. So what’s a technology team to do given today’s dependence culture that encourages information hoarding? When you add metadata, social media, collaboration systems and unstructured data to the mix, it’s a nightmare formula for exploding volumes of data. Despite the challenges, there is hope. In this session, get high-level perspective on how to manage using newer strategies for data management, compression, de-duping and data access.
9:15 am - 9:45 am	Technology Keynote Presentation
9:45 am - 10:15 am	Networking Break
10:15 am - 10:45 am	Deep-Dive Strategies for Slowing Data Growth: A Moderated Panel Discussion While corporate information growth fueled by the paperless office and compliance demands can present daunting challenges to existing infrastructure, key strategies like Intelligent archiving and data de-duplication can strategically slow storage growth. In this panel discussion, hear how techniques like securing storage (rather than data), establishing guidelines and governance for people and processes, and managing metadata can tamp down otherwise explosive data growth.
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Concurrent Sessions
11:40 am - 12:10 pm	Concurrent Sessions
12:20 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch with Moderated Table Discussions
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm	Business Continuity, Backup and Data Deduplication While the business should drive the data the company keeps, compliance imperatives and unique requirements in medicine, law, and finance provide unique and sometimes unusual demands. In this session, get an up-to-the-minute status report on these issues along with a range of key topics including the state of storage tools, discs and non-spinning discs, disaster scenarios, warm sites, replication to remote locations and user recovery expectations.
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Technology Keynote Presentation
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Networking Break
3:15 pm - 3:55 pm	How Does the Cloud Solve the Storage Conundrum? With so much industry buzz about the cloud, it’s hard to separate the hype from reality – and in this session, we’ll do just that. We’ll explore critical issues like economies of scale and the trust factor and whether or not the cloud really allows the enterprise to increase storage at a reasonable cost. We’ll take a look at how the cloud comes with far more than just what seems like obvious cost cutting – including the seemingly hidden (but solvable) issues related to security, governance and constructing the right SLAs. We’ll talk about the right governance model for direct access from mobile devices. And we’ll explore whether or not the current pipe is fast enough to support enterprise applications in the cloud.
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm	Closing Remarks