| Featured Presentations |
Allstate and the Emerald City
Anthony Abbattista, Vice President, Technology Solutions, Allstate Insurance Company
Anthony Abbattista will share how the Allstate is reinventing protection and retirement for consumers by using the latest green technology and reducing the direct impact of its operations on the environment. Learn how sustainable actions – including a state-of-the-art green data center – are saving the company two kinds of green: trees and money.
The Changing Face Of Business Continuity And Strategic Planning
Martin Gomberg, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, A&E Television Network and The History Channel
Once considered the flip side of disaster recovery planning, business continuity planning is fast becoming a critical tool for corporate success and even business survival, contends CIO Martin Gomberg of A&E Television Networks. He argues that CIOs must expand their thinking beyond protecting people, space, data and equipment to encompass the increasingly complex threats and systemic exposures from global economic crises, terrorist activities, natural disasters and more. Marty will describe the changing threat environment and how you should rethink your own strategic requirements around business continuity.
| SNW Spring 2010 Conference Agenda |
Monday, April 12, 2010 | ||||||
 8:00 am - 7:30 pm | REGISTRATION OPEN | |||||
| 8:30 am - 9:20 am | BREAKFAST | |||||
| 9:20 am - 10:05 am | Data Center Track | Business Continuity Track | Governance Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Executive | SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Protection and Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage and Storage Management |
| Unified Storage Networking Dennis Martin, President, Demartek | Sufficient Evidence Pointed to Litigation Firm’s Need for a Consolidated Storage Solution Shawn Mitkowski, Chief Information Officer, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP | E-Discovery Business Readiness Craig Roy, Director of IT, Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, PA | Executive Overview and Current Topics on Solid State Storage Rob Peglar, Vice President Technology, 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 Suzanne Morgan, Senior Program Manager Enterprise Storage, Microsoft |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Data Center Track | Business Continuity Track | Governance Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Solid State Storage | SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Protection and Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage and Storage Management |
| 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 |
| 10:15 am - 11:55 am | SNIA Certification Program – Morning Sessions Overview and SNIA Certification Partner Presentations | |||||
| 11:10 am - 11:55 am | Data Center Track | Business Continuity Track | Governance Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Solid State Storage | SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Protection and Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage and Storage Management |
| 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 - 1:45 pm | Data Center Track | Business Continuity Track | Solid State Track | Storage Management Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Cloud and Emerging Technologies | SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization and Applications |
| FCoE – The Arrival of the 21st Century Data Center Moderator: Sergis Mushell, Principal Research Analyst, Gartner Group | Operational Recovery in Healthcare Using Virtual Technologies Eric Foote, Chief Technical Architect, CareTech Solutions | Panel: Is SSD Right for Your Enterprise? Moderator: Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Disk Drives, IDC | 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, Vice President Technology, Xiotech |
| 1:00 pm - 5:25 pm | SNIA Qualification/Certification Prep Sessions Certification Partner Session, SNIA Sales Qualification Prep Session Certification/Qualification Testing – Opens at 1:00 pm, Last seating at 4:00 pm | |||||
| 1:55 pm - 2:40 pm | Data Center Track | Business Continuity Track | Solid State Track | Storage Management Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Cloud and Emerging Technologies | SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization and Applications |
| Concurrent Session Brian Ignomirello, Chief Technology Officer for Americas StorageWorks Division, HP | Simplify Archiving and Backup with Object-Based Storage Jeff Lundberg, Senior Product Marketing Manager, File and 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, Vice President Technology, Xiotech |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | HANDS-ON LAB | |||||
| 2:50 pm - 3:35 pm | Data Center Track | Business Continuity Track | Solid State Track | Storage Management Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: File Systems and File Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization and Applications |
| Leading the Governance Challenge: How Storage Administrators Should Shape Successful Enterprise Data Center Convergence Jeff Popnoe, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon VSO Architecture Jeffrey Eckard, Director, SAN Product Manager, NetApp | 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 - 4:30 pm | Data Center Track | Business Continuity Track | Solid State Track | Storage Management Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Cloud and Emerging Technologies | SNIA Tutorial Track: Virtualization and Applications |
| 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 Jeff Tofano, Chief Technical Officer, Quantum | Sunshine User Base Accountability With Your Cloud Storage Wendy Betts, Channel Manager, IBM | Data Center Transformation Russ Fellows, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group |
| 4:45 pm - 5:45 pm | OPENING KEYNOTE Lawrence Lessig, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School | |||||
| 5:45 pm - 7:30 pm | WELCOME RECEPTION • Cocktail Reception: 5:45 – 6:30 pm • Buffet and Refreshments: 6:30 – 7:30 pm | |||||
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | ||||||
| 7:30 am - 8:45 am | BREAKFAST | |||||
| 7:30 am - 8:00 pm | REGISTRATION OPEN | |||||
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am | WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise Wayne Adams, Chairman, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) | |||||
| 8:45 am - 9:15 am | Allstate and the Emerald City Anthony Abbattista, Vice President, Technology Solutions, Allstate Insurance Company | |||||
| 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 | UNDERWRITER PRESENTATION (1 of 2) | |||||
| 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 Network and The History Channel | |||||
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | BREAK | |||||
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Zero Downtime for Procter & Gamble’s Critical Business Processes George Joukov, Associate Director, IT Development and Operations, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble | |||||
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | UNDERWRITER PRESENTATION (2 of 2) | |||||
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Moderated Panel Discussion: New Frontiers for IT Infrastructure -- Promising Technologies that Matter Right Now Moderated by: John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise Anthony Abbattista, Vice President, Technology Solutions, Allstate Insurance Company Martin Gomberg, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, A&E Television Network and The History Channel George Joukov, IT Development and Operations, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble | |||||
| 12:15 pm - 3:00 pm | LUNCHEON IN THE EXPO | |||||
| 2:10 pm - 2:55 pm | Executive Perspectives Track | Virtualization Track | Cloud Track | Storage Management Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Security | SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking |
| 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 Jose Cruz, Director of IT, Nanette Lepore Patrick Sweeney, Vice President, Network Security Business Unit, 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 | Executive Perspectives Track | Virtualization Track | Cloud Track | Storage Management Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Security | SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking |
| Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground, but What’s Going On in the Middle? Ralph Loura, Senior Vice President, IT, Medicis | 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 | Self Encrypting Storage: Comparing Alternatives Dr. Michael Willett, President, WillettWorks | IP Storage Protocols: iSCSI John Hufferd, Consultant, Hufferd Enterprises |
| 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Executive Perspectives Track | Virtualization Track | Cloud Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Executive | SNIA Tutorial Track: Security | SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking |
| 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 | Cloud Storage: Where Does it Fit into Tomorrow’s IT? Vincent Franceschini, Chief Technology Officer, Distributed Data Storage Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems | File Systems: What They Are and Why You Care Paul Massiglia, Technical Director, Clustered Storage, Symantec Corporation | Legal Issue Relevant to Storage [based on a SNIA whitepaper under development] Eric Hibbard, CTO Security & Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems | PCI Express Impact on Storage Architectures and Future Data Centers Ron Emerick, Principal Hardware Engineer, Sun |
| 4:55 pm - 5:40 pm | Executive Perspectives Track | Virtualization Track | Cloud Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: File Systems and File Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Security | SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking |
| A New Culture of Wringing Value from Cloud Computing by Eliminating On-premise Applications Kurt Anderson, Director, Global Operations Business Technology, Pfizer | Taking the Plunge: Effectively Deploying Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure Rich Clifton, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Technology Enablement and Solutions Organization, NetApp | 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 | 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 Joshua Konkle, Senior Manager, Content Repository Solutions, Co-Chair NFS SIG, SNIA, NetApp |
| 5:40 pm - 8:40 pm | DINNER IN THE EXPO | |||||
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | ||||||
| 7:30 am - 8:45 am | BREAKFAST | |||||
| 7:30 am - 6:00 pm | REGISTRATION OPEN | |||||
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Executive Perspectives Track | Virtualization Track | Cloud Track | IDC Briefing Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: File Systems and File Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Executive |
| Executive Perspectives Case Study Tom Snook, Chief Technology Officer, New World Symphony | Thin Provisioning and Virtual Server Environments Michael DeFelice, Master Data Center Specialist, IT Technical Operations, Tesoro Companies, Inc. | Forming Your Own Cloud: How to Improve Business-efficiency with a Private Cloud Environment | Top Ten Things You Need to Know About SSDs and HDDs for Enterprise Applications John Rydnig, Research Director - Hard Disk Drives, IDC Moderator: Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State 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 - 5:00 pm | HANDS-ON LAB | |||||
| 9:00 am - 5:40 pm | SNIA Certification Prep Sessions Certification/Qualification Testing – Opens at 9:00 am, Last seating at 4:00 pm | |||||
| 9:55 am - 10:40 am | Executive Perspectives Track | Virtualization Track | Cloud Track | IDC Briefing Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: File Systems and File Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Green Storage |
| Executive Perspectives Case Study | 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 Michael Margossian, 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 | Executive Perspectives Track | Virtualization Track | Cloud Track | IDC Briefing Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development | SNIA Tutorial Track: Green Storage |
| Executive Perspectives Case Study 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 | Decision 2010 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 | Executive Perspectives Track | Virtualization Track | Cloud Track | IDC Briefing Track | SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development | SNIA Tutorial Track: Solid State Storage |
| Executive Perspectives Case Study | Teach Your Storage to Be Financially Responsible Steven Keys, Director of IT, King & Spalding | Building and Managing a Multi-Petabyte Storage System Jeff Whitehead, Chief Technology Officer, Zetta | IDC Briefing Session | 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 | |||||
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | OPENING REMARKS John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise Wayne Adams, Chairman, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) | |||||
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | END USER EXECUTIVE PRESENTATION | |||||
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | MODERATED PANEL DISCUSSION | |||||
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | BREAK | |||||
| 4:45 pm - 5:45 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 | |||||
| 5:45 pm - 6:00 pm | "BEST PRACTICES IN STORAGE" AWARDS PROGRAM | |||||
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | RECEPTION, COCKTAILS, HORS D'OEUVRES AND ENTERTAINMENT • Meet the Best Practices in Storage Networking Awards Honorees and Finalists | |||||
Thursday, April 15, 2010 | ||||||
| 7:30 am - 10:00 am | REGISTRATION OPEN | |||||
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | BREAKFAST WITH HOSTED DISCUSSION TABLES | |||||
| 8:30 am - 12:00 pm | SNIA Sales Qualification Prep Session and Testing Certification/Qualification Testing – Opens at 9:00 am, Last seating at 10:30 am | |||||
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Protection and Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Executive | SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage and Storage Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Security | SNIA Tutorial Track: Cloud and Emerging Technologies | |
| Retaining Information for 100 Years Mary Baker, Senior Research Scientist, HP Labs Roger Cummings, Technical Director, Symantec Corporation | An Introduction to Storage Management Raymond Clarke, Senior Enterprise Storage Specialist, Sun Microsystems Tom Mancuso, Senior Program Manager, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) | 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 | SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Protection and Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Solid State Storage | SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage and Storage Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Security | SNIA Tutorial Track: File Systems and File Management | |
| Active Archive - Data Protection for the Modern Data Center Molly Rector, Vice President Product Management & Marketing, Spectra Logic Corporation Dr. Rainer Pollak, Chief Technology Officer, DataGlobal | 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 Mark Maybee, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Dominic Kay, Engineering Manager, Sun Microsystems | |
| 10:20 am - 11:05 am | SNIA Tutorial Track: Data Protection and Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking | SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage and Storage Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Security | SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development | |
| 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 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 | SNIA Tutorial Track: Solid State Storage | SNIA Tutorial Track: Networking | SNIA Tutorial Track: Storage and Storage Management | SNIA Tutorial Track: Security | SNIA Tutorial Track: Professional Development | |
| Solid State Storage Architectures Jamon Bowen, Director of Sales Engineering and Customer Support, Texas Memory Systems | iSCSI: A Lossless Ethernet Fabric with DCB Gary Gumanow, Senior Product Manager, Dell Jason Blosil, Product Marketing Manager, NetApp | 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 | |||||
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