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| SNW Spring 2010 Conference Agenda |
Monday, April 12, 2010 | ||||||
 8:00 am - 6:30 pm | REGISTRATION OPEN | |||||
| 8:30 am - 9:20 am | BREAKFAST | |||||
| 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Hands-On Lab -- Morning Sessions | |||||
| 10:15 am - 11:55 am | SNIA Certification Program – Morning Sessions Overview and SNIA Certification Partner Presentations | |||||
| 9:20 am - 10:05 am | ||||||
| Unified Storage Networking Dennis Martin, President, Demartek | Sufficient Evidence Pointed to Litigation Firm’s Need for a Consolidated Storage Solution Mark Carlson, Senior Software Engineer, Oracle | E-Discovery Business Readiness Craig Roy, Director of IT, Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, PA Drew Sorrell, Partner, Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, PA | Executive Overview and Current Topics on Solid State Storage Rob Peglar, Senior Fellow, Xiotech | Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond Michael Fishman, Chief Technology Officer, Unified Storage Platforms, EMC | Server and Storage Consolidation with iSCSI Arrays David Dale, Director Industry Standards, NetApp |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | ||||||
| 10 Steps for Deploying 10GbE Mark Jones, Director of Technical Marketing, Emulex | Data Protection Best Practices for Databases Ashish Ray, Senior Director, Oracle | Concurrent Session | Apples to Apples, Pears to Pears in SSS Performance Benchmarking Esther Spanjer, Director, SSD Technical Marketing, Smart Modular Technologies | Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies Jason Iehl, Data Protection Solutions Architect, NetApp Andreas Schwegmann, Product Architect, HP | Understanding High Availability in the SAN Mark Fleming, Senior Software Engineer, IBM |
| 11:10 am - 11:55 am | ||||||
| A New Storage Model for the Cloud Richard Lary, Corporate Fellow, Xiotech Corporation | Real-Time Revenue & Recovery: How Interbank FX Leveraged DR to Protect its Global Trading Business Paxton Powers, IT Infrastructure Manager, Interbank FX | Securing Sensitive Information: Discovery, Monitoring and Control Robert Griffin, Director of Technical Marketing, RSA, the Security Division of EMC | Latency: The Heartbeat of a Solid State Disk Levi Norman, Director of Marketing, Texas Memory Systems | Understanding Data Deduplication Tom Sas, Product Marketing Manager, Hewlett Packard | How to Eliminate Configuration Drift Risk Gil Hecht, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Continuity Software |
| 11:55 am - 1:00 pm | LUNCH | |||||
| 1:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Hands-On Lab -- Open Sessions | |||||
| 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm | ||||||
| FCoE – The Arrival of the 21st Century Data Center Tom Hammond-Doel, Vice-Chairman - FCIA, Fibre Channel Industry Association Mark Jones, Director of Technical Marketing, Emulex Skip Jones, Director Corporate Planning and Technology, QLogic Corporation Mike McNamara, Senior Manager, Product Marketing, NetApp Greg McSorley, Technical Business Development Manager, Amphenol Moderator: David Vellante, Co-founder and Principal Contributor, The Wikibon Project Steven Wilson, Director, Technology and Standards, Brocade | Operational Recovery in Healthcare Using Virtual Technologies Eric Foote, Chief Technical Architect, CareTech Solutions | Panel: Is SSD Right for Your Enterprise? David Dale, Director Industry Standards, NetApp Moderator: Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Disk Drives, IDC Steve Johnson, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect, LSI Storage Components Division, LSI Corporation Tom Lattin, Director, Strategic Commodities, Industry Standard Server Business Unit, HP Gary Tressler, Senior Technical Staff Member, Systems & Technology Group, IBM Rich Vignes, Senior Manager, Enterprise Product Line Mgmt - SSD, Seagate | Welch's Manages Complexity from Grove to Table Mukesh Sharma, Manager, Database & ERP Infrastructure, Welch Food Inc. | WAN Optimization and Cloud Computing Josh Tseng, Technical Director, Riverbed Technology | Storage Virtualization I - What, Why, When, Where, How? Rob Peglar, Senior Fellow, Xiotech |
| 1:00 pm - 5:25 pm | SNIA Certification Prep Sessions Certification Partner Sessions, SNIA Certification Prep Session Certification/Qualification Testing – Opens at 1:00 pm, Last seating at 4:00 pm | |||||
| 1:55 pm - 2:40 pm | ||||||
| Storage Trends & Outlook: The Future of Storage in a Converged Infrastructure Brian Ignomirello, Chief Technology Officer, Americas StorageWorks Division, HP | Simplify Archiving and Backup with Object-Based Storage Jason Beckham, Director of IT Operations, Payformance Bob Primmer, Senior Technologist and Director Product Management for Content Services, Hitachi Data Systems | Dynamic Tiering – Taking Advantage of the Best of HDDs and Solid State Ron P. Bianchini, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Avere Systems | Healthcare 2.0! Chris J. Stakutis, Vice President, Healthcare, CA (Computer Associates) | The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) - The Cloud Storage Standard Mark Carlson, Senior Software Engineer, Oracle | Storage Virtualization II - Implementing and Managing Storage Virtualization Rob Peglar, Senior Fellow, Xiotech |
| 2:50 pm - 3:35 pm | ||||||
| Data Deduplication Expert Panel Matthew Brisse, Director, Product Marketing, Quantum Larry Freeman, Storage Efficiency Evangelist, NetApp John Matze, Vice President Storage System Products, Exar Corporation Richard Reitmeyer, Sr. Technologist, EMC Thomas Rivera, Sr. Technical Associate, Sepaton Gideon Senderov, Director, Product Management & Technical Marketing, Advanced Storage Products, NEC Corporation of America | Case Study: Data Protection Strategies at the Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Gerry Holmes, Director, Information Technology, Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division | Getting the Most Out of SSDs – Data Center IT System Optimization Best Practices Mike Chenery, President and Co-founder, Pliant Technology | Provisioning Management Across Silos Doug Voigt, Distinguished Technologist, HP | The File Systems Evolution Christian Bandulet, Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems | Optimizing Your Storage for Server Virtualization Chris Lionetti, Reference Architect, NetApp |
| 3:45 pm - 4:05 pm | REFRESHMENT BREAK | |||||
| 4:05 pm - 4:50 pm | ||||||
| Simplifying Complex Migrations Andy Abbas, Vice President of Technical Services, Data Agility Group Stoney Gwitira, Director of Information Technology, Data Agility Group | Backup Imperative: Effectively Managing Cost and Risk with Deduplication Storage Cory Matteucci, Senior Storage Engineer, St. Luke's Health System | Flash Solid-State Storage Reliability and Data Integrity – Are We There Yet? David Flynn, Chief Technology Officer and President, Fusion-io | Integrating Dedup into Filesystems: What Every Customer Should Know Matthew Brisse, Director of Technical Product Marketing , Quantum | Sunshine User Base Accountability With Your Cloud Storage David Stevens, Storage Manager, Carnegie Mellon University | Data Center Transformation Russ Fellows, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Opening Keynote: America’s Broadband Policy Lawrence Lessig, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School | |||||
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | WELCOME RECEPTION • Join us for cocktails and hors d'oeurves and meet your friends (new and old) at SNW! | |||||
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | ||||||
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | BREAKFAST | |||||
| 7:30 am - 6:30 pm | REGISTRATION OPEN | |||||
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am | WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Wayne M. Adams, Chairman, Board of Directors, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise, Publishers of Computerworld, Network World, InfoWorld, CIO & CSO | |||||
| 8:45 am - 9:15 am | Allstate and the Emerald City Anthony Abbattista, Vice President, Technology Solutions, Allstate Insurance Company | |||||
| 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Hands-On Lab -- Morning Sessions | |||||
| 9:00 am - 5:40 pm | SNIA Certification Prep Sessions Certification/Qualification Testing – Opens at 9:00 am, Last seating at 4:00 pm | |||||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Managing Storage Complexity Across the Enterprise Eric Shrock, Principal Software Engineer, Oracle | |||||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | The Changing Face Of Business Continuity And Strategic Planning Martin Gomberg, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, A&E Television Networks | |||||
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | NETWORKING BREAK | |||||
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Aligning IT and Business Goals Through the Use of a Balanced Scorecard Jeff Kubacki, Chief Information Officer, Kroll | |||||
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Backup to the Future Hugo Patterson, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, EMC Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) Division, EMC Corporation | |||||
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | New Frontiers for IT Infrastructure -- Promising Technologies that Matter Right Now Anthony Abbattista, Vice President, Technology Solutions, Allstate Insurance Company Moderated by: John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise Martin Gomberg, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, A&E Television Networks George Joukov, IT Development and Operations, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble Parag Patel, Vice-President, Global Strategic Alliances Organization, VMware | |||||
| 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm | LUNCHEON IN THE EXPO | |||||
| 2:10 pm - 5:40 pm | Hands-On Lab -- Open Sessions | |||||
| 2:10 pm - 2:55 pm | ||||||
| Managing Expectations in a Belt-Tightened Economy: How One CIO Innovates to Reduce Costs Joe Lacik, Senior Vice President, Information Services, Aviall Services, Inc., a division of The Boeing Company | I/O Virtualization – The Next Virtualization Frontier Dennis Martin, President, Demartek | ITaaS: Data Center Inc. Stays Ahead of the IT infrastructure Curve with Cloud-based Storage Solution Robert Ross, Chief Security Officer and Senior Vice President of Network and Technical Services, Data Center Inc. (DCI) | Nanette Lepore: How an International Designer Overhauled its Infrastructure for Security & Mobility Stacy M. Aruda, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI Eric Crutchlow, CDP, Senior Systems Engineer, SonicWALL | Introduction to Storage Security Eric Hibbard, CTO Security & Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems | TCP/IP Inside the Data Center and Beyond Dr. Joseph White, Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks |
| 3:05 pm - 3:50 pm | ||||||
| Creating Valuable Relationships with Your Technology Partners Jeff Kubacki, Chief Information Officer, Kroll | Kelley Blue Book: Getting Your Company on the Road to Storage and Server Efficiency Grant Leathers, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure, Kelley Blue Book | Exposing the Cloud: It’s More than a Buzzword Tim Connors, Director, AT&T | Intelligent Storage: High Performance and Hot Spot Elimination Vincent Hsu, Chief Technology Officer, Disk Storage System, IBM System & Technology Group | Legal Issues Relevant to Storage Eric Hibbard, CTO Security & Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems | IP Storage Protocols: iSCSI John Hufferd, Consultant, Hufferd Enterprises |
| 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm | ||||||
| Aligning IT with the Business by Implementing IT Governance Lawrence T. Di Gioia, Information Services Director, City of Altamonte Springs | Virtualization and Scale Up Storage Architectures Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems | Well-Grounded Approach to the Cloud: Defining and Delivering on the Promise of an Enterprise Cloud Val Bercovici, Cloud Czar, Office of the CTO, NetApp | File Systems: What They Are and Why You Care Paul Massiglia, Technical Director, Clustered Storage, Symantec Corporation SW Worth, Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft | Self Encrypting Storage: Comparing Alternatives Dr. Michael Willett, President, WillettWorks | PCI Express Impact on Storage Architectures and Future Data Centers Ron Emerick, Principal Hardware Engineer, Oracle Corporation |
| 4:55 pm - 5:40 pm | ||||||
| Provisioning State of the Art Technology as a Continuum Robert Ross, Chief Security Officer and Senior Vice President of Network and Technical Services, Data Center Inc. (DCI) | Taking the Plunge: Effectively Deploying Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure Rich Clifton, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Technology Enablement and Solutions Organization, NetApp | Cloud Storage: Where Does it Fit into Tomorrow’s IT? Vincent Franceschini, Chief Technology Officer, Distributed Data Storage Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems | Storage Tiering and the Impact of Flash on File Systems Jonathan Goldick, Fellow, LSI Corporation | An Inside Look at Imminent Key Management Standards Matthew Ball, Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Corporation | pNFS, Parallel Storage for Grid, Virtualization and Database Computing Pranoop Erasani, Sr. Ecosystem Architect, NFS Protocols, NetApp Joshua Konkle, NFS SIG Co-Chair, SNIA |
| 5:45 pm - 8:45 pm | DINNER IN THE EXPO | |||||
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | ||||||
| 7:30 am - 9:00 am | BREAKFAST | |||||
| 7:30 am - 6:00 pm | REGISTRATION OPEN | |||||
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | ||||||
| View from Above the Cloud: A Case for Terabytes of Video, Virtual Enterprise Data and Moving it All into a Cloud Tom Snook, Chief Technology Officer, New World Symphony | Scalability on Demand David Shepard, Vice President, Major Accounts, i/o On Demand | Concurrent Session | Top Ten Things You Need to Know About SSDs and HDDs for Enterprise Applications Moderator: Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Disk Drives, IDC John Rydnig, Research Director - Hard Disk Drives, IDC | Scale-Out Storage Systems Nicholas Kirsch, Director of Product Management , Isilon Systems, Inc. | Green Storage - The Big Picture SW Worth, Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft |
| 9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Hands-On Lab -- Morning Sessions | |||||
| 9:00 am - 5:40 pm | SNIA Certification Prep Sessions Certification/Qualification Testing – Opens at 1:00 pm, Last seating at 4:00 pm | |||||
| 9:55 am - 10:40 am | ||||||
| Managing IT: Changing with The Focus on the End Customer Rajiv Jain, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President / General Manager, CorbisImages.com | Fibre Channel Drives Speed and Convergence Tom Hammond-Doel, Vice-Chairman - FCIA, Fibre Channel Industry Association | Cloud Management: The Good the Bad and the Ugly Dave Crespi, Chief Technology Officer, Emulex | Making Business Personal with Storage Liz Conner, Research Analyst, IDC | File Systems for Object Storage Devices Paul Massiglia, Technical Director, Clustered Storage, Symantec Corporation Tushar Tambay, Director Clustered Storage Development, Symantec Corporation | Green Storage Products - Efficiency with ENERGY STAR(r) and Beyond Dr. Erik Riedel, Senior Director of Technology & Architecture in the Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC |
| 10:50 am - 11:35 pm | ||||||
| Technology Revolution of 2010 Ron Lockhart, Vice President, Application and Academic Support, Kaplan | Virtualization at Scale Christopher G. Hawk, Global Services Director, EMC | More than a Lifetime of Data and Information: Unifying Live and Archival Storage Lawrence A. Stabile, Senior Architect, Iron Mountain Digital | Where Does Storage Play in the Next Generation Highly Virtualized Datacenter? Benjamin S. Woo, Vice President, Storage Systems, IDC | Strategies for Success: Techniques for Reducing Stress and Increasing Creativity David Deming, President, Solution Technology | Green Storage Technologies and Your Bottom Line Dr. Alan Yoder, Office of the CTO, NetApp |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | ||||||
| Achieving Business Objectives through Enterprise Architecture Brian Cobb, Senior Vice President of Mortgage Operations, Fannie Mae | Taking Command of Skyrocketing Growth Bryan Pretre, Senior IT Operations Manager, Orbital Sciences Corporation | Building and Managing a Multi-Petabyte Storage System Jeff Whitehead, Chief Technology Officer, Zetta | Strategies for Supporting Storage in a Virtualized Environment Matt Healey, Research Manager, Software and Hardware Support Services, IDC | Men and Women in Technology Patty Then, Senior Principal in Global Marketing Operations, CA, Inc. | The Benefits of Solid State in Enterprise Storage Systems: Today and Tomorrow David Dale, Director Industry Standards, NetApp |
| 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm | LUNCHEON IN THE EXPO | |||||
| 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Hands-On Lab -- Open Sessions | |||||
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | OPENING REMARKS Wayne M. Adams, Chairman, Board of Directors, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise | |||||
| 3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | How Cloud Computing and New IT Infrastructure Shifts are Changing the Industry Landscape Benjamin Woo, Vice President, Enterprise Storage Systems, IDC | |||||
| 3:40 pm - 4:05 pm | Executive Interview -- The Future of Corporate Technology Infrastructure: What Will it Look Like? John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise Steve Gardner, Director, Outbound Marketing, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Corporation Tom Joyce, Vice President, Marketing, Strategy and Operations, StorageWorks Division, Hewlett-Packard Company | |||||
| 4:05 pm - 4:30 pm | Executive Interview -- Exploding Data and Imploding Budgets: Can Technology Really Shrink this Elephant in the Room? John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise Jim McDonald, Chief Strategy Officer, Xiotech Garry Olah, Vice President, Business Development, Citrix Systems | |||||
| 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Chasing Clouds at Boeing: Promise, Challenges and Results of Creating a Utility IT Model Joe Lacik, Senior Vice President, Information Services, Aviall Services, Inc., a division of The Boeing Company | |||||
| 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm | "BEST PRACTICES" AWARDS PROGRAM | |||||
| 5:45 pm - 7:15 pm | RECEPTION, COCKTAILS, HORS D'OEUVRES AND ENTERTAINMENT • Meet the Best Practices Awards Honorees and Finalists | |||||
Thursday, April 15, 2010 | ||||||
| 7:30 am - 10:00 am | REGISTRATION OPEN | |||||
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | BREAKFAST | |||||
| 8:30 am - 12:00 pm | SNIA Storage Network Foundations Certification Prep Session and Testing Certification/Qualification Testing – Opens at 9:00 am, Last seating at 10:30 am | |||||
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | ||||||
| Retaining Information for 100 Years Mary Baker, Senior Research Scientist, HP Labs | An Introduction to Storage Management Raymond A. Clarke, Enterprise Storage Specialist, Oracle America | Notes and Lessons Learned from a Field Engineer Robert Smith, Windows Premier Field Engineer,Premier Field Engineering, Public Sector, Microsoft | An Introduction to Key Management for Secure Storage Walt Hubis, Software Architect, LSI Corporation | Cloud Archiving Paul Field, Consultant | |
| 9:25 am - 10:10 am | ||||||
| Active Archive - Data Protection for the Modern Data Center Dr. Rainer Pollak, Chief Technology Officer, DataGlobal Molly Rector, Vice President Product Management & Marketing, Spectra Logic Corporation | Using SSD MLC NAND in Datacenter Applications Tony Roug, Principal Engineer, Intel | Open Source and Standards: A Marriage Made in IT Heaven Hope Hines, Chief Operating Officer, Olocity Corporation | How E-Discovery Will Affect Your Life as a Storage Professional David Stevens, Storage Manager, Carnegie Mellon University | Aspects of Deduplication Dominic Kay, Product Manager, Solaris Filesystems, Oracle Mark Maybee, Principal Software Engineer, ZFS, Oracle | |
| 10:20 am - 11:05 am | ||||||
| Deduplication's Role in Disaster Recovery Thomas Rivera, Senior Technical Associate, Sepaton | Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) John Hufferd, Consultant, Hufferd Enterprises | iSCSI SANs: Ideal Applications, Large and Small Jason Blosil, Product Marketing Manager, NetApp Gary Gumanow, Senior Product Manager, Dell | Cloud Storage Security Introduction Gordon Arnold, Senior Technical Staff, IBM | Using Social Media to Your Advantage Diana Eastty, Principal, Eastty Marketing Marty Foltyn, Vice President, Channel Chargers, LLC | |
| 11:15 am - 12:00 pm | ||||||
| Solid State Storage Architectures Jamon Bowen, Director of Sales Engineering and Customer Support, Texas Memory Systems | iSCSI: A Lossless Ethernet Fabric with DCB Jason Blosil, Product Marketing Manager, NetApp Gary Gumanow, Senior Product Manager, Dell | SAS & SATA Combine to Change the Storage Market Marty Czekalski, Senior Staff Program Manager, Seagate Technology LLC Terry Gibbons, Senior Product Manager, Storage Components Division, LSI Corporation | Cloud Storage Securing CDMI Eric Hibbard, CTO Security & Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems | Delivering Ideas: Strategies for Impromptu Speaking Brian Castelli, Consultant Software Engineer, EMC | |
| 12:00 pm | CONFERENCE CONCLUDES | |||||
