Storage Networking World

October 13-16th, 2008
The Gaylord Texan
Dallas, Texas

Monday, October 13, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Speaker Bios

Spring 2008 Conference Agenda

LEGEND
	End-User Case Study
	Greening of IT discussed in this session
	Small and Medium-Sized Business Discussed in this Session

Featured presenters include:

Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress
Ed Goldman, Vice President, Technology and Operations Planning, Marriott International
William Kramer, Division Deputy and General Manager, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Mark O'Gara, Vice President, Infrastructure Management, Highmark, Inc.
Mark Showers, Chief Information Officer, Monsanto Company
Jim Swartz, Chief Information Officer, Sybase

MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2008 Registration Open 8:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
9:00 - 9:20 a.m.	Breakfast
9:20 - 11:55 a.m.	Regulatory / Compliance Track	High Performance Computing Track	Next-Gen Data Center Track	SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Management	SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization/ Standards	SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage Management	SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
9:20 - 10:05 a.m.	New Regulations & Compliance Issues: How to Stay One Step Ahead Tim Russell Vice President and General Manager of Storage Security Business Unit, NetApp	Next Generation File Services: Addressing the Growing Challenge of Managing File Based Information Noemi Greyzdorf Research Manager, IDC	The Power Shift to Next Generation Storage Infrastructure Dave Vellante Co-founder, The Wikibon Project William Souder Director, Network Operations and Chief Security Officer, Berry College	Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond Jason Iehl Data Protection Solution Architect, NetApp	Storage Networking Standards: Recent Developments David Black Distinguished Engineer, EMC Corporation	An Introduction to Managing Storage Russell Warren Storage Management Development, IBM Corporation	SNIA Certification Overview Session / Certification Partner Program Jeanne Douglass SNIA Education Program Manager
10:15 - 11:00 a.m.	Content Archiving for Rapid eDiscovery, Compliance and Disaster Recovery Rick Chin Senior Vice President, Information Technology, Pinnacle Financial Corporation	Accelerating Applications with InfiniBand Connected Servers and High Performance Storage Systems John Mincarelli Director, Information Technology, Synopsys	SAN Replication + Wide Area Data Services: The One-Two Punch for Consolidating Your Data Center Adam Rasner Director, Corporate Networking, Rayonier, Inc.	Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies Michael Rowan Consultant and Storage Expert	SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development	SNIA Tutorial Track: Green Storage	SNIA Certification Partner Representative BROCADE Certfication Program Joe Cannata BROCADE Certification Manager
					Trustology – The Secret Sauce of Productivity Teams & Profitable Organizations David Deming President and Founder, Solution Technology	Green Storage I - Economics, Environment, Energy and Engineering SW Worth Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
11:10 - 11:55 a.m.	In-House eDiscovery Andy Cohen Associate General Counsel and Compliance Practice Lead, EMC Corporation	Solid State Drives in Enterprise Richard Coulson Intel Senior Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel Corporation	Bringing Managed Reliability and Service Avoidance to Storage Steve Sicola Chief Technology Officer, Xiotech Corporation	Identifying and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks: Taking Your Existing Backup System To the Next Level Jacob Farmer Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer	SNIA Tutorial Track: File Management	Building the Green Data Center: Towards Best Practices and Technical Considerations Rick Bauer SNIA Technology & Education Director, Storage Networking Industry Association Sol Squire Managing Director for Off-Shore Operations, Data Islandia	*SNIA Certification Partner Representative* EMC Proven Professional Program Karen Mancini Principal Program Manager, EMC Proven Professional Program
					Unified NAS and iSCSI Technology Overview Wolfgang Singer Member of the IBM Technical Experts Council, IBM Corporation
11:55 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
12:30 - 5:30 p.m.	Pre-Conference Golf Outing

1:00 - 5:25 p.m.	Business Continuity / Data Protection Track	Storage Management Track	Next-Gen Data Center Track	Tech-Edge Track	SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking	SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization/ Standards	SNIA Tutorial Track: Security	SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.	Storage-as-a-Service Doug Chandler Director of Research, IDC	Are You Keeping Pace? Trends Impacting Storage Management Robert Stevenson Managing Director of Storage Research, TheInfoPro	Data Center 2.0: Simple Guidelines for a Complicated World Marcy Montgomery Chief Operating Officer, Spectra Logic	1:00 - 1:20 p.m. Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System Wendy Johnson Senior Product Manager, Sun Microsystems	Fibre Channel Technologies: Current and Future M. K. Jibbe Manager and Test Architect Lead, LSI Corporation Steven Wilson Director of Technology and Standards, Brocade Communications, Inc. Tom Hammond-Doel Alliance Manager, LSI Corporation	Virtualization I - What, Why, Where and How? Rob Peglar Vice President Technology, Xiotech Corporation	Saving Private Data: An Introduction to Storage Security Richard Austin IT Industry Consultant	*SNIA Certification Partner Representative* Hitachi Data Systems Certification Program Peter Manijak Director, HDS Academy
				1:25 PM - 1:45 PM Solaris Multi-Protocol FC Target Zhong Wang, Solaris Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems
1:55 - 2:40 p.m.	PII Data Protection Using Remote-to-Core Approach Dmitri Ryutov Vice President, IT Senior Architect, JPMorganChase	Back to School Data Protection with Latin School of Chicago Shandor Simon Director of Networking Services, Latin School of Chicago	Maximizing the Value of Critical Data - The Next Generation of Cancer Research Parag Mallick Director of Clinical Proteomics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center	1:55 PM - 2:15 PM Secure Business Continuity with No Performance Impact Alok Sharma Vice President, Network Security, Thales e-Security Inc.	IP Storage Protocols - iSCSI John Hufferd Senior Executive Director of Technology Brocade Communications Systems	Storage Virtualization II - Effective Use of Virtualization Rob Peglar Vice President Technology, Xiotech Corporation	ABCs of Encryption Roger Cummings Technical Director, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Symantec Corporation	*SNIA Certification Partner Representative* NetApp Certification Program Annina Puccio Senior Manger, Assessments and Certification, Network Appliance
				2:20 PM - 2:40 PM Breaking the Performance & Scalability Barriers of Legacy NAS Systems with IBM Scale Out File Services Mack Basil, Global Offering Executive, IBM Corp.
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Hands-On Lab
2:50 - 3:35 p.m.	Tiers for Fears: RAID Fundamentals Driving a Green World Tom Hammond-Doel Senior Alliance Manager, LSI	Mind-at-Rest for Data-at-Rest: Avoiding Data Breaches When Hardware Leaves the Data Center Willis Whittington Senior Market Development Manager, Seagate Technology	The Quiet and Not-so-Quiet Technologies Shifting IT Services for the Enterprise Larry Boucher Chief Executive Officer, Alacritech	2:50 PM - 3:10 PM AMD Processor-based Storage Bridge Bay 2.0 Reference Design Kit David Jessel, Storage Segment Manager, AMD	Comparing Server I/O Consolidation Solutions: iSCSI, InfiniBand and FCoE Walter Dey Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems Gilles Chekroun Senior Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems Errol Roberts Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems	Server and Storage Virtualization with IP Storage David Dale Director, Industry Standards, NetApp	An Introduction to Key Management for Secure Storage Walter Hubis Software Architect, LSI Corporation	*SNIA Certification Partner Representative* HP Certified Professional Program Stephanie Boger HP Storage Solution Architect
3:45 - 4:30 p.m.	Simplifying BCP Using OS and Storage Virtualization J. Wolfgang Goerlich, CISSP, CISA Network Operations and Security Manager, Munder Capital Management	File Virtualization: A School District's Way of Managing Unstructured Data John Greiner IT Manager/ Technology Consulting Lead, Temple Independent School District	Electric Company Powers Up the Storage Grid -- How Tucson Electric Saves Money, Energy and Time by Creating a Virtual Environment Tony Edelbrock Senior Systems Administrator, Tucson Electric Power Company Chris Rima Supervisor, IT Systems, Tucson Electric Power Company	Tech-Edge Track	SAS & SATA Combine to Change the Storage Market Marty Czekalski Senior Staff Program Manager, Seagate Technology Harry Mason Director, Industry Marketing, LSI Corporation	Storage Management: SMI-S to Management Frameworks Mark Carlson Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc	SNIA Tutorial Track: Green Storage	SNIA Training Partner Representative Storage Network Foundations Prep Peter Coleman Managing Director, Infinity IO
							Growing the Green Storage Environment Miklos Sandorfi Chief Technology Officer, SEPATON, Inc.
4:40 - 5:25 p.m.	Remote Storage Equals Safe Storage Thomas Comella Vice President of Technology & Information Systems and Chief Information Officer, Neighborhood Centers Josh Schlanger Director of Operations, Arsenal Digital	Panel Discussion: Not All Data Deduplication Solutions Are Alike Moderator: Arun Taneja Founder and Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group Panelists: Jered Floyd Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Permabit Technology Miklos Sandorfi Chief Technology Officer, SEPATON, Inc. Jeff Tofano Chief Technology Officer, Quantum Corporation Neville Yates Chief Technology Officer, Diligent Technologies	Defining Storage Solutions in the Data Center 2.0 Karen Dutch General Manager, Advanced Storage Products, NEC Corporation of America	Tech-Edge Track	Ethernet Technology Sunil Ahluwalia Product Line Manager, LAN Access Division, Intel Corporation Manoj Wadekar Lead Architect, Data Center Ethernet, Intel Corporation	SNIA Tutorial Track: File Management	Green Storage I - Economics, Environment, Energy and Engineering SW Worth Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
						A Crash Course In Wide Area Data Replication Jacob Farmer Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.	SNIA End-User Council Town Hall Meeting
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.	Welcome Reception

TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2008 Registration Open 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
7:45 - 8:45 a.m.	Breakfast
	General Sessions								8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m Hands-On Lab
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.	Opening Remarks Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld Vincent Franceschini, Chairman, Board of Directors, Storage Networking Industry Association
9:00 - 9:45 a.m.	Monsanto's New Data Center: Responding to the Growing Demands for Actionable Information from Around the Globe Mark Showers, Chief Information Officer, Monsanto Company
9:45 - 10:15 a.m.	Discontinuity for Ultimate Business Continuity Dave Roberson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, StorageWorks Division, HP							SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.	Break							10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SNIA Training Partner Representative Storage Network Foundations Prep Howard Goldstein President, Howard Goldstein Associates Inc. (HGAI)
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.	Toward a More Energy Efficient Data Center at Highmark: The Role of Technology Mark O’Gara, Vice President, Infrastructure Management, Highmark, Inc.
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Content Processing: The Next Frontier in Data Security Dr. Claudine Simson, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, LSI Corporation
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.	The Greening of IT: Oxymoron or Journey to a New Reality? Moderator: Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld Panelists: Andrew Fanara, Team Leader, ENERGY STAR® Product Specifications Development Group, USEPA Mark O'Gara, Vice President, Infrastructure Management, Highmark, Inc. Mark Showers, Chief Information Officer, Monsanto Company Leighton C. “Chris” Wood, Jr., Director and Chief Technology Officer, Global Storage Practice, Sun Microsystems Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems
12:15 - 3:00 p.m.	Luncheon in the Expo
2:10 - 5:40 p.m.	Business Continuity / Data Protection Track	Infrastructure / Data Center Track	Virtualization Track	Information Management Track	Tech-Edge Track	SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage	SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development	SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program	8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m Hands-On Lab
2:10 - 2:55 p.m.	Analyst Perspectives Session Bob Laliberte Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group	What, When and Why -- Key Emerging Technologies Ken Male Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TheInfoPro	The Role of Storage Virtualization in the Datacenter of the Future Benjamin Woo Vice President, Enterprise Storage System, IDC		2:10 PM - 2:30 PM Quantum’s DXi7500 and Symantec NBU 6.5 Direct Copy - Empowering the Next Generation of Integrated Disk and Tape Architectures Mark Eastman, Director, Solutions Marketing, Quantum Corporation Tyler Carter, Product Marketing Manager, NBU Product Line, Symantec Corporation	Desktop, Nearline and Enterprise HDDs - What's the Difference? Willis Whittington Senior Manager Market Development, Seagate Technology	Best Practices for Innovation Lynne VanArsdale Senior Manager, Strategic Planning, Seagate Technology	SNIA Training Partner Representative Storage Networking Management & Administration Prep. Phil Huml Senior Consultant, KnowledgeTransfer
					2:35 PM - 2:55 PM Leveraging Information Recovery Management to Improve Data Center TCO Joseph Jeter, Chief Sales Officer, Asigra, Inc.
3:05 - 3:50 p.m.	A Lesson in Data Protection for the SMB Elena Olkhovskaya PhD, Director, Information Technology, Holy Names University Emerson Whatley Principal Consultant and Practice Manager, ePaperless, LLC	The Leader of the Pack: Fibre Channel Drives the Future of Storage Tom Hammond-Doel FCIA Vice-Chairman, Fibre Channel Industry Association	Understanding the Benefits of File Virtualization and WAN Optimization Convergence Rick Gillett Vice President, Data Systems Architecture, F5 Networks	Can Your Information Management Strategy Make You an Outlaw? What Information Governance Is and How You Can Address the Most Important Aspects of Managing Information Throughout Its Lifecycle Aimee Williams Product Marketing Manager, Information Governance, CA	3:05 PM - 3:25 PM Entry Level iSCSI Shahzada Sufyan, Product Manager, HP StorageWorks Division	Storage Performance 101 Ray Lucchesi President, Silverton Consulting	Marketing for Geeks: Why You Should Care About Storage Services Harriet Pea Marketing Consultant
					3:30 PM - 3:50 PM HP's Utility Ready Storage Solution Shawn Wagner, WW Program Manager, HP Utility Ready Storage
4:00 - 4:45 p.m.	Growing Pains: Making the Jump to an Enterprise Class Backup Strategy Dave Stauffacher System Administrator, Direct Supply, Inc.	Enabling the Dynamic Data Center Hu Yoshida Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems	Lowering Cost and Improving Service Level with Storage Consolidation and Virtualization Joseph Furmanski Project Director, CCTS Engineering, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	When “Duct Tape” and Terabyte Disks Won’t Do – Growing Web 2.0 Environments to Multi-petabyte Scale Mike Feinberg Senior Vice President of the Technology Ventures Group, EMC Corporation	4:00 PM - 4:20 PM What is the eXtensible Access Method (XAM)? Scott Ostapovich, Chief Contributor to XAM API Architecture and Specification, EMC Corporation	The Storage Evolution: From Blocks, Files and Objects to Object Storage Systems Christian Bandulet Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems	SNIA Tutorial Track: Applications	SNIA Training Partner Representative Storage Networking Design & Assessment Prep. Peter Coleman Managing Director, Infinity IO
							Recent Advances in WAN Acceleration Technologies Joshua Tseng Director, Technical Marketing, Riverbed Technology
					4:25 PM - 4:45 PM Why should you care about XAM? David Martin, Co-Chair, XAM Initiative, Hewlett Packard
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.	Networking with the SNIA Technical Council
4:55 - 5:40 p.m.	Real-Life Data Protection Story: The Process of Going Tape-Less Lauren Whitehouse Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group Tilak Dhar Storage Administrator, Stanford University Dan Stillmaker Director of Storage and Backup Systems, Stanford University Heidi Biggar Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group	Beyond Green-Wash: IT Data Center Power, Cooling and Environmental Topics and Trends Greg Schulz Founder and Senior Analyst, The StorageIO Group	Essential Requirements for Storage Virtualization: Availability, Performance, and Data Integrity Doc D'Errico Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Software Group, EMC Corporation	Rats Nests, Snow Drifts and Trailers: Moving Storage Out of the Basement and onto a Unified Platform Gregg Paulk Director of Information Technologies, Anderson Center for Autism	4:55 PM - 5:15 PM EMC: Information Infrastructure Solutions for VMware Keith Coughlin, Senior VMware Specialist, EMC Corporation	Storage Consolidation with IP Storage David Dale Director, Industry Standards, NetApp	High Availability Using Fault Tolerance in the SAN Mark Fleming Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation
					5:20 PM - 5:40 PM EMC Leadership in the SNIA XAM Standard Steve Spataro, Director, EMC Centera Product Marketing, EMC Corporation
5:40 - 8:40 p.m.	Dinner in the Expo

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2008 Registration Open 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
7:30 - 7:50 a.m.	IDC Breakfast Meeting: Got Files? The Expanding Options for File-Level Storage Brad Nisbet, Program Manager, IDC
7:45 - 8:45 a.m.	Breakfast
7:50 - 8:10 a.m.	IDC Breakfast Meeting: Enterprise SSDs Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Disk Drives, IDC
8:10 - 8:30 a.m.	IDC Breakfast Meeting: Storagenomics 2008 and Beyond Benjamin Woo, Vice President, Enteprise Storage Systems, IDC
.	General Sessions								8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m Hands-On Lab
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.	Opening Remarks Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld Vincent Franceschini, Chairman, Board of Directors, Storage Networking Industry Association
9:00 - 9:45 a.m.	Doing More with Less: The Future of Digital Preservation in a Constrained Fiscal Environment Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives and Chief Information Officer, Library of Congress
9:45 - 10:15 a.m.	The Greening of IT at Marriott Ed Goldman, Vice President, Technology Strategy, Information Resources Shared Services, Marriott International, Inc.							SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
								9:30 - 10:00 a.m. SNIA Certification Overview Jeanne Douglass SNIA Education Program Manager
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.	Next Generation Information Infrastructure Andy Monshaw, General Manager, IBM System Storage							10:00 - 11:45 a.m. SNIA Training Partner Representative Storage Network Foundations Prep Neil Edmunds Technical Director, Solution Technology
10:45 - 11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	The Greening of the Data Center Jim Swartz, Chief Information Officer, Sybase, Inc.
11:30 a.m. - Noon	Transform your Data Center - The Path to a Transparent Infrastructure Tom Georgens, President and Chief Operating Officer, NetApp
Noon - 12:30 p.m.	NERSC - Extreme Storage and Computation for Science William Kramer, Division Deputy and General Manager, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
12:30 - 3:00 p.m.	Luncheon in the Expo
2:10 - 5:40 p.m.	Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Track	Infrastructure / Data Center Track	Virtualization Track	Managing Complexity Track	SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage Management	SNIA Tutorial Track: Security	SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Management	SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program	8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m Hands-On Lab
2:10 - 2:55 p.m.	Fault Tolerant Storage within an EMR Environment JoAnne Ruh Vice President of Information Technology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute	Realistic Approaches to Address Power and Cooling Challenges Today Mark Peters Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group	Challenges and Solutions to Storage IO in Virtualized Server Environments Gunna Marripudi Staff Product Marketing Manager, QLogic Corporation	What Do You Do When Your User Base Doubles and Your Storage Budget Stays the Same? Ian Erikson Client Technology Specialist III, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	Storage Resource Management -- Managing SAN Costs and Complexity Jerry Duggan Senior Software Architect, Hewlett-Packard	Storage Security: Learning from Others Experiences Moderator: Blair Semple Security Evangelist, NetApp Panelists: David Murray Chief Information Security Officer, Genworth Mortgage Insurance Dave Stauffacher CIS System Administrator, Direct Supply, Inc. Neil Strand Storage Engineer, Legg Mason	Deduplication Methods for Achieving Data Efficiency Devin Hamilton Principal Systems Engineer, Storage Architect, Data Domain	SNIA Training Partner Representative Storage Networking Management & Admin. Prep. Peter Colemann Managing Director, Infinity IO
3:05 - 3:50 p.m.	Peeling Back the Data Protection Onion: How to Use Multi-Layered Protection to Meet Data Availability Bill Peldzus Vice President of Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.	Is Your Data Center as Efficient as You Think It Is? - Accurately Measuring and Meeting Your Energy Requirements Tony Hampel Director, Product Management, Brocade	Storage Virtualization: Beyond the Bland Debate of Where to Virtualize Eric Schott Senior Director of Product Management, Dell	Transforming the Data Center Sean Derrington Director, Storage Management and CDP/R, Data Center Management Group, Symantec Corporation	SRM - Can You Get What You Want? John Webster Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata	TCG Trusted Storage Specifications Jason Cox Software Engineer and System Architect, Seagate Technology Research	Best Practices for Long-Term Retention of Digital Information Michael Peterson President, Strategic Research Corporation Gary Zasman Consulting Practice Lead and Senior ILM Consultant, Americas, NetApp
4:00 - 4:45 p.m.	Remaining in Compliance When Preparing for and Recovering from a Real Life Disaster: One Broker Dealer's Experience John Michaels Chief Technology Officer, Maxim Group LLC	Strategic Architecture - Stepping Stone to Aligning IT and Your Business Scott Dennull Director, Infrastructure & Support Services, CareSource	How Classified Ventures Saved $1 Million Deploying Highly Virtualized Utility Storage Joe Giannetti, Vice President of Corporate Technology, Classified Ventures	SAN Performance Management in Large and Complex Data Centers Scott Fuhrman Senior Systems Engineer, Supervalu	The Real-World State of Storage Management Julie Ryan Director of Alliances, LSI Corporation	SCSI Security Nuts and Bolts Ralph Weber President, ENDL Texas	Records Managers and Storage Managers Speak: Get the Real Story Behind ILM Moderator: John Webster Principal IT Advisor, Illuminata Panelists: Jenny Jolinski Manager, Corporate Records, Darden Restaurants Wendy Betts Manager of the Distributed Systems Storage Management, Hewitt Associates Lynn Patrick Herbert Manager, Sector Command Media Marty LeFebvre Application Hosting Lead, North America, Tata Consultancy Services	SNIA Training Partner Representative Storage Networking Design & Assessment Prep. Phil Huml Senior Consultant, Knowledge Transfer
4:55 - 5:40 p.m.	Next-Generation Data Protection – Melding Old and New Worlds Dan Cobb Chief Technology Officer, Information Management Software, EMC Corporation	FCoE: A Smooth Ride Pompey Nagra Senior Manager, Ethernet Product Marketing, QLogic Corporation	Power to the People: Virtualization Know-How, a Powerful Approach in Meeting Business' Ever Changing Challenges Rich Clifton Vice President and General Manager, Networked Storage Business Units, NetApp	Architecting Your Support Ecosystem to Survive and Thrive in Hyper-Growth Rusty Walther Senior Vice President of Global Support, NetApp	Storage Management Within The NEW ITIL Version 3 Context Dr. D. A. Robinson Consulting Computer Scientist, American ITIL Ltd.	Information Security and IT Compliance Roger Cummings Technical Director, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Symantec Corporation Frank Bunn Senior Solutions Marketing Manager; EMEA Solutions Marketing, Branch/ Niederlassung, Symantec Corporation	SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development
							Building Magnificent Technical Presentations Howard Goldstein President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc
5:40 - 8:30 p.m.	Cocktail Reception and Gala Evening "Best Practices in Storage Awards" Program, Dinner & Entertainment

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 Registration Open 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
7:30 - 8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
8:00 - 8:45 a.m.	SNIA Certfication Breakfast All SNIA Certification holders are invited to breakfast with the SNIA Education Leadership
8:30 a.m. - Noon	Security Track	Infrastructure / Data Center Track	Managing Complexity Track	SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Management	SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking	SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage	SNIA Tutorial Track: File Management	SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
8:30 - 9:15 a.m.	Data Protection and Fabric-Based Encryption Roger Bouchard Worldwide Security Practice Lead, Brocade	The Green Data Center: More than a Social Responsibility - A Foundation for Growth and Economic Gain Rich Lechner Vice President, Optimizing IT, IBM Corporation	Going Green? Saving the World One Byte at a Time Brian Brockway Senior Director, Product Management, CommVault	The Secret Sauce of ILM Bob Rogers Chief Technology Officer, Application Matrix, LLC	InfiniBand Technology Overview Dror Goldenberg Director of Architecture, Mellanox Technologies	Solid State Storage for the Enterprise Woody Hutsell Executive Vice President, Texas Memory Systems Brian McKean Storage Architect, LSI Corporation	High Availability and Disaster Recovery for NAS Systems Paul Massiglia Chief Technology Strategist, agami Systems, Inc.
9:25 - 10:10 a.m.	Security Considerations Bring Software-plus-Service to the Enterprise Russell Dietz Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hifn, Inc.	Best Practices for Achieving Power Efficiency in the Data Center Chad Smykay Storage Architect, Rackspace Managed Hosting	Automation Triple Play: Storage, Servers and Network Devices Kaylan Ramanathan Director of Product Marketing, Storage Automation Solution, HP	Classification: The Cornerstone for Compliance and Cost-Driven Information Management Edgar St.Pierre Senior Technologist, EMC Corporation Sheila Childs Director of Marketing, EMC Corporation	Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) John Hufferd Senior Executive Director of Technology, Brocade Communications	Continous Available Commodity Storage Dr. Rekha Singhal Visiting Scientist, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) Zia Saquib Director, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)	SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization/ Standards	9:25 - 11:05 a.m. SNIA Training Partner Representative Storage Network Foundations Prep Neil Edmunds Technical Director, Solution Technolgy
							SMI-S: Building the Case for a Standard Paul von Behren Chief Technologist, Symantec Mike WalkerSenior Technical Staff Member, Storage Software Architecture and Standards Systems and Technology Group, IBM Corporation
10:20 - 11:05 a.m.	Stored Data Encryption: Securing Your Information Infrastructure David Black, PhD Senior Technologist, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation	Using Intelligent SAN Features to Increase Power Efficiency in the Data Center Omar Sultan Solution Manager, Cisco Systems	The Value of WAN Optimization in the Enterprise Garry Moreau Senior Staff Alliance Consultant, Ciena Corporation	Storage Considerations for Database Archiving Julie Lockner Vice President Sales Operations, Solix Technologies, Inc	PCI Express and Storage Ron Emerick IO Architect, Sun Microsystems	Advanced iSCSI Management Capabilities Gene Nagle Director of Technical Marketing, iStor Networks	eXtensible Access Method (XAM) - A new fixed content API Mark Carlson Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
11:15 - Noon	Adding Encryption to Your SAN Niels Reimers Technical Advisor, PMC-Sierra	Big Storage for Small Businesses David Fusfeld Director, Information Technology, Acsys, Inc.	Transforming Business Workflow through High Speed File Transfe