| Monday, May 12 |
| 4:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
Delegate registration |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Birds-of-a-feather |
| Tuesday, May 13 |
| 8:00 am - 8:45 am |
Registration and welcome refreshments |
| 8:45 am - 8:55 am |
Welcome address presented by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director, Storage Media Group |
| 8:55 am - 9:00 am |
Move to Breakout Rooms |
9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Breakout sessions |
BACKUP TECHNOLOGIES : Stand and Deliver - Data Protection SLAs
Presented by Brian Greenberg, Data Protection Services Manager and Architect
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STORAGE AND CAPACITY MANAGEMENT: Green Storage - Practical Ways to Reduce Power Consumption
Presented by Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO
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DISASTER RECOVERY: DR Testing Programs - How Useful Are They?
Presented by Jon Toigo, CEO, Toigo Partners International |
MANAGEMENT / EXECUTIVE: Business Buy-in
Presented by Scott Matey, Managing Director, GlassHouse Technologies |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Move to breakout rooms |
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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BACKUP TECHNOLOGIES: Negotiating the Backup and Recovery Maze
Presented by Henry Johnson, Senior Team Lead, Fortune 500 Healthcare Services Organization
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STORAGE SYSTEMS AND NETWORKING : Integrating iSCSI and FC SANs
Presented by Howie Goldstein, President, Howard Goldstein Associates Inc.
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DATA RETENTION AND RETRIEVAL : Everything You Need to Know About Data Classification
Presented by Jeff Boles, Technology Analyst, Taneja Group
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| 11:15 am - 11:30 am |
Morning break |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Emerging Technology and Solution Provider Showcase
Today’s hottest start-ups in the storage market present in a 10-minute rapid-fire format, and value-added resellers that specialize in storage networking share their insights into successful customer projects and unique solutions to common challenges your peers have faced. |
| 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:45pm - 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 Recovery Planning for Virtualized Environments
Presented by Ray Lucchesi, President, Silverton Consulting
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DATA RETENTION & RETRIEVAL: User Panel- Data Retention Policies That Work
Moderated by Storage Media Group Editors Rich Castagna and Ellen O’Brien and featuring a panel of end users
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STORAGE AND CAPACITY MANAGEMENT : Leveraging Capacity Optimization Technologies Against Primary Storage
Presented by Eric Burgener, Senior Analyst, Taneja Group
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| 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 Inc. |
| 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm |
Exhibit Hall Reception
Enjoy food, delicious hors d'ouvres, cocktails and conversation with your peers. Review new products and storage solutions from top vendors, and enter to win some fantastic prizes! |
| 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 will receive free copies!" |
| 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm |
Welcome Reception – 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. |
| Wednesday, May 14 |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Welcome refreshments |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Welcome address presented by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director, Storage Media Group |
10:15 am - 11:15 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 |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am |
Move to breakout rooms |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 am |
Breakout Sessions |
DATA RETENTION & RETRIEVAL : Deep Dive Into Email Archiving Products
Presented by Stephen Foskett, Director of Data Practice, Contoural
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STORAGE AND 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 AND NETWORKING : Storage Networking - The Path to Performance
Presented by Howie Goldstein, President, Howard Goldstein Associates Inc.
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| 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! |
| 2:30 pm- 2:45 pm |
Move to breakout rooms |
| 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm |
Breakout Sessions |
BACKUP TECHNOLOGIES : Testing… One, Two, Three…
Presented by Jeff Harbert, Storage Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies
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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 |
DATA RETENTION AND RETRIEVAL : Storage and the Law - Backup, Recovery and Depositions
Presented by Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group and Greg Buckles, Founder of Reason-eD and Experienced Litigation Support Specialist
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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
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MANAGEMENT / EXECUTIVE : What Storage Managers are Buying
Presented by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director, Storage Media Group
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STORAGE SYSTEMS & NETWORKING : The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance
Presented by Brian Garrett, Technical Director of ESG Lab, Enterprise Strategy Group |
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| 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. |
| Thursday, May 15 |
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Registration and morning refreshments |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
MANAGEMENT/EXECUTIVE TRACK: Managing the Four Cs – Cost Containment, Compliance, 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 |
DISASTER RECOVERY: Tiered Disaster Recovery – DR SLAs That Work
Presented by Bill Peldzus, VP Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, GlassHouse Technologies |
| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm |
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 |
| 12:15 pm |
Conference adjourns |
