Conference: Storage Track
This track will help explain how key storage and storage network technologies work together to drive your business. We have sessions that will appeal to the business executive, as well as sessions that are more technical and comprehensive for IT technical staff. Storage Application, Storage Technologies and Storage Networks will be the track's main focus.
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 The "Reality" of Storage Virtualization: How Customers are Deploying Virtualized Storage (Location: Breakers I)This session builds on Storage Virtualization I from Interop Las Vegas 08. Attendees should already have a basic understanding of this subject. Storage Virtualization Part II covers practical issues of block virtualization in order to make most effective use of it. This session describes the implementation step-by-step and aspects of availability, performance and capacity improvements. Other topics this session covers includes: the role of storage virtualization within policy-based management, and its integration in the SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). Learning Objectives: 1. Understand a detailed example of the implementation of storage virtualization 2. Understand the management techniques necessary to effectively control virtualized storage 3. Increase awareness of the impact of virtualized storage on other aspects of computation (especially virtual servers) and networking Speaker - Robert Peglar, Vice President, Technology, Xiotech Corporation
Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 32-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is the Treasurer of the SNIA, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative and the Solid State Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. He was one of 30 senior executives worldwide selected for the Network Products 2008 MVP Award. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a ten-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University's Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization. | |||||
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Innovations in Storage Networking (Location: Breakers I)This is an exciting time in the field of Storage and Storage Networking. The advances in disk technologies with the move to integrate Solid State Disks with Hard Disk Drives are being brought to RAID controllers. The blending of storage, server and network Virtualization brings greater flexibility and asset utilization for customers and their IT infrastructure. The increasing performance potential in the storage network with advances in PCI Express, InfiniBand, IP SANS and the Fibre Channel over Ethernet initiatives continue to push the envelope of innovation. The concept of a Unified Data Center fabric promise reductions in cost and increases in performance for the future. A panel of storage and storage networking vendors will be on hand to answer questions and present the merits of their offerings, how they are approaching innovation and what the future holds. Moderator - Howard Goldstein, President, HGAI
Howard Goldstein has over 30 years' experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express and others. Goldstein holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Telecommunications from Pace University. He is a frequent speaker at Interop and Storage Networking World. He founded Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. an Education & Technology Company offering instructor led training. Visit www.hgai.com. He provides in-depth skills with his technology-specific classes. His job task approach in his Storage Networking Planning, Design, Performance and Troubleshooting classes provides the skill level required to perform specific job roles in the Storage Networking industry today. Howard Goldstein has expertise in many aspects of the human side of technology offering innovative consulting and education services on Professional Vitality and Career Development, Adult Learning, and Presentation Development & Delivery Techniques. Howard believes that content and context delivery is as important as content development and is a master of both. Goldstein is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee. He has helped develop the SNIA Certification Program as well as other SNIA Education initiatives. He has been active in the publications world as technical editor of Building Storage Networks and Resilient Storage Networks. Speaker - David Flynn, CTO, Fusion-io
As CTO of Fusion-io, and one of the company's founders, David Flynn is the visionary behind Fusion-io's innovative technology. Mr. Flynn is responsible for providing business-focused oversight of the company's research and development efforts, as well as driving the company's short- and long-term technological direction. Mr. Flynn has a history of successfully architecting complex computer-related solutions, including some of the world's largest and fastest supercomputers and the world's smallest personal Linux servers; embedded Web 2.0 interactive TV; image processing; relational databases; file systems; and thin-client computing products. Prior to joining Fusion-io, Mr. Flynn served as Project BlackDog's chief scientist and vice president, engineering. He has also held positions at Linux Networx and Network Computer Incorporated (NCI), a spin-off of Oracle Corporation. Mr. Flynn holds a B.S. in Computer Science and serves on the Technology Advisory Boards for the College of Information Technology at Brigham Young University and Techniscan Medical Systems. Mr. Flynn embraced technology at an early age. While attending Brigham Young University, Flynn created 3D-GIS (graphics information systems) for noise control at Boston Logan International and Salt Lake International airports as technical lead at Larson Davis Laboratories. At 16, he designed and authored 3D flight simulation and image processing software for the Department of Defense, while working for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Prior to that, he created and marketed flight-planning software for general aviation pilots. Speaker - Larry Hart, Worldwide Sr. Manager, Dell Storage & Networking Product Group, Dell Inc.
Larry Hart is responsible for worldwide product management and marketing of Dell Storage & Networking products. Mr. Hart sets the strategic direction for Dell's PowerVault disk array business and enterprise networking products. He also oversees product planning and product management for these product lines. During the past nine years at Dell, he has helped position Dell as the worldwide leader in Windows/Linux storage and helped launch the PowerConnect networking business. Prior to joining Dell, Mr. Hart served as a general manager for Baylor University's Information Technology Center where he managed and established corporate IT standards for the campus. In this role, he managed strategic IT supplier relationships to provide best-in-class solutions to the University. Mr. Hart holds an engineering degree and an MBA from Texas A&M University. Speaker - Martin Skagen, Sr. Director and Chief Architect, Brocade
Martin Skagen joined the Brocade Competitive Analysis team in 2002, helping to ensure the competitiveness of a wide range of Brocade products and strategies. Since 2004, he runs the technology, standards and strategy team and is responsible for Brocade's Data Center product lines. Skagen has more than 19 years of IT experience, including more than a decade spent at Hewlett Packard, where he held various positions such as managing support/services teams for mission-critical customers. He has a BS in Computer Science from Niels Brock University in Copenhagen Denmark. Speaker - Robert Peglar, Vice President, Technology, Xiotech Corporation
Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 32-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is the Treasurer of the SNIA, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative and the Solid State Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. He was one of 30 senior executives worldwide selected for the Network Products 2008 MVP Award. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a ten-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University's Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization. | |||||
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Green Storage: The "Envy" of the Data Center (Location: Breakers I)The next few years will bring widespread awareness of the environment's impact—especially energy costs—associated with data storage. Already several regulations and initiatives—for example, restriction of hazardous substances (ROHS), waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and Energy Star—affect manufacturers of storage components or computers. There are also some innovative storage technologies especially targeted towards energy conservation including a massive array of idle disks (MAID), along with the well-known alternatives of removable storage like tape and optical. Several vendors have also begun to offer data on power use, energy consumption and cooling loads in response to competitive pressures from other vendors and customers. Some vendors and consultants are offering energy modeling as part of their total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, either for competitive reasons or as part of their professional services portfolio. This presentation will quickly review basic engineering topics relevant to understanding "Green," including stuff you may have successfully avoided, such as environmental chemistry; thermodynamics; energy vs. power; and computational and storage density, as well as the resulting energy and cooling issues. Conceptual models sufficient to understand or even develop energy budgets will be taught. All of this will converge on a basic model for TCO that includes energy modeling. This session has been brought to you by the SNIA Green Storage Initiative. Speaker - SW Worth, Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft
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Information Compliance: Classification, Archiving and eDiscovery (Location: Breakers I)Compliance and eDiscovery are two of the biggest challenges facing IT today. Information continues to grow exponentially - and with it - the need to comply with industry and government regulations and prepare for eDiscovery while keeping costs down. This session will discuss the situation in which many companies today find themselves—trying to reconcile records management, compliance and governance requirements and manage to these requirements with tools that are available today. In particular, it will look at classification, archiving and retention policy management to proactively address compliance, and as tools to treat eDiscovery requests as a repeatable business processes. Speaker - Gregory Kosinski, Director, Product Marketing, EMC
Grego Kosinski, Director of Product Marketing, is responsible for product management and marketing programs for EMC enterprise software products, with a particular emphasis on content archiving and compliance solutions. Grego works closely with customers and product operations staff to ensure that EMC products meet the demanding business requirements of customers, and with distribution channels and partners to deliver EMC solutions to market. Grego has more than 22 years experience in the technology sector, holding marketing management positions at Lucent Technologies and the Amdahl Corporation, and as senior industry analyst with the market research firm, Dataquest. Grego has helped customers and partners to develop business plans, marketing strategies, strategic alliances, and investment opportunities. Grego has conducted sessions and presentations at numerous industry trade shows and conferences. He holds an MBA from the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business and a BA in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. Wednesday, May 20 | | ||||
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A "Crash" Course in Data Replication (Location: Breakers I)Replicating data over a WAN sounds pretty straight-forward, but it turns out that there are literally dozens of different approaches, each with it's own pros and cons. Which approach is the best? Well, that depends on a wide variety of factors! This class is a fast-paced crash course in the various ways in which data can be replicated, and the pros and cons of each major approach. We trace the data path from applications to disk drives and examine all of the points along the way wherein replication logic can be inserted. We look at host based replication (application, database, file system, volume level, and hybrids), SAN replication (disk arrays, virtualization appliances, caching appliances, and storage switches), and backup system replication (block level incremental backup, CDP, and de-duplication). This class is not only the fastest way to understand replication technology it also serves as a foundation for understanding the latest storage virtualization techniques. Speaker - Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer Services
Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. Jacob's no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale. Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University. | |||||
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The Data De-Duplication Story: Eliminating Redundant Data & Cost (Location: Breakers I)Deduplication technology has changed the economics of storage. With the massive amount of backup data increasing, deduplication allows for an efficient way of storing data. In this session, we'll differentiate de-duplication from other storage techniques. We'll also examine the different approaches to deduplication, including in-line vs. post-process de-duplication systems and central processing unit (CPU) vs. disk-spindle centric systems. Further, we'll discuss the state of the industry and its importance to the overall storage networking puzzle specifically, and what problems de-duplication can and cannot solve. Speaker - Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer Services
Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. Jacob's no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale. Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University. | |||||
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SAN Technology Convergence: Impacts & Benefits (Location: Breakers I)IT organizations are under increasing pressure to meet highly demanding business priorities, while dealing with day-to-day operational limitations. Technologies, such as virtualization and Unified Fabric, offer a great opportunity for IT leader to improve the responsiveness and agility of their organizations. Nonetheless, the evolutionary path to full adoption of these converged technologies in the data center involves changes to IT processes, network architecture, as well as the skill set required to support the new IT. As unified fabric architectures evolve, the network will be the storage area network (SAN) for block or file access. This creates new opportunities for further storage consolidation and network architecture optimization. This session will explore the business benefits of unified fabric with fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on the SAN and the network architecture implications. This session will also discuss the business benefits of converged technologies in IT, with a particular focus to the data center, and highlight some of the implications that these technologies will have on processes and people within IT. Speaker - Errol Roberts, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco
With more than 16 years of networking, and telecommunications experience, Errol Roberts brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. | |||||
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Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (Location: Breakers I)Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC and DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based on a variety of data protection approaches. Today, because 24/7/365 access is expected, a range of data recovery capabilities are needed to map to all of your organization's recovery objectives. During this presentation we discuss best practices of a tiered BC/DR platform that integrates modular products such as CDP, replication and automated failover capabilities with traditional backup and recovery for multi-layered protection. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of top five best practices to consider and key items/actions to include in the development of their BC/DR plans. Speaker - Frank Jablonski, Sr. Director, Recovery Management & Data Modeling Business Unit, CA
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Virtualization - Enabling Disaster Recovery for Any Sized Business (Location: Lagoon F)Enterprises have invested money in disaster recovery (DR) for years, while small and mid-sized companies with limited budgets simply hoped and prayed that nothing disastrous would happen. Today, companies of all sizes are leveraging virtualization to create cost-effective DR implementations. This session discusses why and how so many companies are utilizing virtualization to implement successful disaster recovery plans. Moderator - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, FOCUS
Anne Skamarock has spent nearly 30 years in software engineering, consulting and technical marketing, as an end-user/administrator, vendor, industry analyst, and author, with Sun, Solbourne, StorageTek, SRI, and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). For the past 10 years, she has focused on virtualization, systems, and storage management and the intersection points between them. Anne's expertise encompasses systems architecture; virtualization technologies; enterprise management software; data protection; and tape and disk storage. A frequent speaker at conferences, she co-chairs the Interop Virtualization Tracks, and previously chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. In addition to regular TechTarget and Network World columns, Anne also co-authored "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" as well as "Storage Solutions: a Buyer's Guide." Speaker - Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering, Double-Take Software
Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering, joined Double-Take Software as a Product Manager in April 2005. Promoted to director of solutions engineering in January 2006, Mr. Roudebush is Double-Take's chief evangelist. He works with the Double-Take sales force, sales engineers, customers and prospects to position and promote Double-Take. Through Mr. Roudebush's efforts Double-Take has been widely acknowledged as the undisputed market leader in accessible data protection for the Windows platform. Mr. Roudebush possesses a deep understanding of technology and the data protection market as a whole. Mr. Roudebush has more than 13 years of IT industry experience and holds multiple industry certifications including Novell Master Certified Network Engineer (MCNE), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has also been named a Microsoft MVP Award winner for 2006, 2007, and 2008. Speaker - Fadi Albatal, Director, Marketing, FalconStor
Fadi Albatal is the senior director of product marketing at FalconStor Software. With over 12 years of senior level management in the IT market, Albatal has substantial experience with large scale storage systems. Prior to FalconStor, he was part of the product marketing team at Dell/EqualLogic where he lead the company's strategic alliance and go-to-market strategy with Microsoft. Previously, Albatal served as CIO at Langu-EDGE Solutions Inc., a multi-discipline language service provider. He also served as a software engineer consultant with Transport Canada in the Aircraft Certification Program Services Project, participating in the architecture and development of various aircraft safety, information and registration systems. Albatal holds a master's degree in computer science from ESIG, Lyon, France. Speaker - George Pradel, Director of Strategic Alliances, Vizioncore
George Pradel has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years now, the last 12 being in Virtualization. 6 1/2 years with Citrix, 2 years with VMware and now with Vizioncore, a fully owned subsidiary of Quest software specializing in Virtualization solutions including Backup, Replication, Monitoring, P2V and VM Optimization. Speaker - Jim Sangster, Senior Director of Marketing, Virtualization Solutions & Alliances, NetApp
Jim Sangster is responsible for virtualization solutions at NetApp as well as the alliances between NetApp and VMware, Citrix as well as other virtualization providers. With experience ranging from software development, sales engineering, product marketing and product management; Jim has spent over 20 years in the industry with a focus on data center management. As virtualization has emerged, Jim has managed teams responsible for products, technologies and marketing at Sun Microsystems and NetApp. Speaker - Joop Janssen, Solutions Services Director, Stratus
As Solutions Services Director, Joop Janssen's responsibility is promoting the solutions that address availability-related issues in mission-critical environments for Stratus Technologies' most strategic customers. Before joining Stratus in December 2005, he worked as corporate account executive at Peak Technologies, selling supply chain automation solutions to targeted corporate accounts. As account director at Cable & Wireless, Janssen was responsible for managing and expanding the Cable Operators business segment in the UK. His prior experience includes consulting positions at Motorola and Siemens in the area of application integration across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. | |||||
