| Monday, September 22 |
| 4:00 pm-7:00 pm |
Delegate registration |
| 5:00 pm-6:30 pm |
Birds of a Feather
Network with the best! Take advantage of this opportunity to pick the brains of those working in environments similar to yours. This session is open only to end users like yourself. Neither press nor vendors are allowed. |
| Tuesday, September 23 |
| 8:00 am-8:40 am |
Registration and welcome refreshments |
| 8:40 am-8:50 am |
Welcome address presented by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director, Storage Media Group
Located in Main Ballroom |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Breakout sessions |
BACKUP TECHNOLOGIES:
Testing...One, Two, Three...
Presented by Jeff Harbert, Storage Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies |
STORAGE & CAPACITY MANAGEMENT:
Green Storage - Practical Ways to Reduce Power Consumption
Presented by Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO |
DISASTER RECOVERY:
DR Testing Programs - How Useful Are They?
Presented by Jon Toigo, CEO, Toigo Partners International |
STORAGE SYSTEMS & NETWORKING: Focus On Solid State Storage
Presented by George Crump, Founder and Senior Analyst, Storage Switzerland |
| 10:00 am-10:15 am |
Move to breakout rooms |
| 10:15 am-11:15 am |
Breakout sessions |
STORAGE & CAPACITY MANAGEMENT: Optimizing Storage in VDI Environments
Presented by Jeff Byrne, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group
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BACKUP TECHNOLOGIES:
Stand and Deliver - Data Protection SLAs
Presented by Brian Greenberg, Data Protection Services Manager and Architect
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STORAGE SYSTEMS & NETWORKING: IP and Fibre Channel in SANs
Presented by Howie Goldstein, President, Howard Goldstein Associates |
MANAGEMENT/EXECUTIVE: Business Buy-In
Presented by Scott Matey, Managing Director, GlassHouse Technologies |
| 11:15 am-11:30 am |
Morning Break |
| 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Solution Provider Showcase
Value-added resellers specialize in storage networking share their insights into successful customer projects and unique solutions to common challenges your peers have faced.
Located in Main Ballroom |
| 12:30 pm-1:45 pm |
Lunch - Location TBA |
| 1:45 pm-2:45 pm |
Breakout sessions |
BACKUP TECHNOLOGIES: Making Virtual Backups Real
Presented by W. Curtis Preston, VP Data Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies
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DISASTER RECOVERY:
Virtual DR - Disaster Planning for Virtualized Environments
Presented by Ray Lucchesi, President, Silverton Consulting
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DATA RETENTION & RETRIEVAL: Deep Dive Into Email Archiving Products
Presented by Stephen Foskett, Director of Data Practice, Contoural
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STORAGE & CAPACITY MANAGEMENT:
Leveraging Capacity Optimization Technologies Against Primary Storage
Presented by Eric Burgener, Senior Analyst, Taneja Group |
| 2:45 pm-3:00 pm |
Afternoon Break |
| 3:00 pm-4:00 pm |
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: 7 Simple Steps to Overcoming Storage Compliance Challenges
Presented by Randy Kahn, Founder, Kahn Consulting
Located in Main Ballroom |
| 4:00 pm-6:30 pm |
Exhibit Hall Reception
Enjoy food, delicious hors d'ouvres, cocktails and conversation with peers courtesy of Hitachi Data Systems. Review new products and storage solutions from top vendors, and enter to win some fantastic prizes. Location TBA
Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems |
| 5:00 pm-6:30 pm |
Ask the Experts
Get one-on-one advice and have your questions answered by conference speakers in our "Ask-the-Experts" area of the exhibit hall. Plus, Keynote Speaker Randy Kahn will be in the Ask the Experts area signing copies of his popular book, Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance. His first 25 visitors recieve free copies!
Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems |
| 6:30 pm-8:00 pm |
NEC Non-Trivial Pursuit: Enterprise Storage Edition
Join your peers for a special trivia competition featuring great food and drinks, plus giveaways and surprises from reception sponsor NEC.
Sponsored by NEC |
| Wednesday, September 24 |
| 8:30 am-8:50 am |
Welcome refreshments |
| 8:50 am-9:00 am |
Welcome address presented by Rich Castagna, Editorialial Director, Storage Media Group
Located in Main Ballroom |
| 9:00 am-10:00 am |
Executive Keynote: The 3rd Era of Commercial Computing-What Storage Infrastructures Will Look Like
Presented by Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group |
| 10:15 am-11:15 am |
Breakout sessions |
MANAGEMENT/EXECUTIVE:
Buying Storage - What the Vendors Don't Want You to Know
Presented by Bill Peldzus, VP Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, GlassHouse Technologies
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STORAGE & CAPACITY MANAGEMENT: Clustered Storage - From SMB, to Scientific, to Social Networking and Web 2.0
Presented by Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO
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BACKUP TECHNOLOGIES: De-dupe User Panel
Moderated by Arun Taneja and featuring a panel of end users
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STORAGE SYSTEMS & NETWORKING:
Storage Networking - The Path to Performance
Presented by Howie Goldstein, President, Howard Goldstein Associates
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| 11:15 am-11:30 am |
Morning Break |
| 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Emerging Technology Showcase
Today's hottest start-ups in the storage market present in a 10-minute rapid-fire format. |
| 12:30 pm-2:30 pm |
Special Lunch in the Exhibit Hall NEW!
Maximize your time to talk shop with exhibiting storage technology providers. Make contacts for your 2008 projects, get product information and view demos of the latest storage technologies. Plus, W. Curtis Preston will be in the Ask the Experts area signing copies of his popular book, Backup and Recovery. His first 25 visitors will receive free copies added! |
| 2:30 pm-2:45 pm |
Move to breakout rooms |
| 2:45 pm-3:45 pm |
Breakout sessions |
Storage Systems & Networking: Identifying Performance Bottlenecks - Tips and Tools to Help You Say It's Not Your Fault
Presented
by Ed Delgado, Storage Administrator, RiskMetrics Group
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STORAGE & CAPACITY MANAGEMENT: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Virtualization - In One Hour
Presented by Stephen Foskett, Director of Data Practice, Contoural |
BACKUP TECHNOLOGIES:
Strategies for Restoring and Retrieving SharePoint Data
Presented by Lauren Whitehouse, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
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STORAGE SYSTEMS & NETWORKING:
Storage and the WAN - What are the Options?
Presented by Marc Staimer, President and CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting |
| 3:45 pm-4:00 pm |
Afternoon Break |
| 4:00 pm-5:00 pm |
Breakout sessions |
BACKUP TECHNOLOGIES: De-dupe and Disk Backups - What You Need To Know Before Taking the Plunge
Presented by W. Curtis Preston, VP Data Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies |
MANAGEMENT/EXECUTIVE: What Storage Managers Are Buying
Presented by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director, Storage Media Group |
STORAGE SYSTEMS & NETWORKING: The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance
Presented by Brian Garrett, Technical Director of ESG Lab, Enterprise Strategy Group |
| 5:00 pm-6:00 pm |
Storage Decisions Networking Reception
All conference attendees, expert speakers and sponsors are invited to a special cocktail hour. As the second day of the conference closes, you’ll enjoy a relaxed reception where you can network with your peers, meet the vendors and ask questions directly to the conference speakers.
Sponsor TBA |
| Thursday, September 25 |
| 7:30 am-12:30 pm |
Financial Storage Decisions: A half-day seminar and discussion exclusively for storage managers in financial services |
| 8:30 am-9:00 am |
Registration and morning refreshments |
| 9:00 am-10:00 am |
MANAGEMENT/EXECUTIVE: Managing the 4 C's - Cost Containment, Complaince, Continuity and Carbon Footprint
Presented by Jon Toigo, CEO Toigo Partners International |
| 10:00 am-10:15 am |
Morning Break |
| 10:15 am-11:15 am |
STORAGE & CAPACITY MANAGEMENT: The Hidden Storage Gotchas of Server Virtualization and How to Avoid Them
Presented by Marc Staimer, President and CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting |
| 11:15 am-12:15 pm |
DISASTER RECOVERY: Tiered Disaster Recovery - DR SLAs That Work
Presented by Bill Peldzus, VP Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, GlassHouse Technologies |
| 12:15 pm |
Conference adjourns |
