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Ask the Experts Zone Schedule

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
Available from 5:15 - 6:15 PM

Howard Marks
DeepStorage.net

Expertise includes:
Backup, data reduction, deduplication and compression
Solid-state storage systems
Converged data center networking
Building cost-effective storage solutions
Fibre Channel over Token Ring (FCoTR) and FCoE

Brien Posey
BrienPosey.com

Expertise includes:
Continuous data protection (CDP)
Virtual server backups
Exchange Server
Hyper-V
Windows

Marc Staimer
Dragon Slayer Consulting

Expertise includes:
Flash Storage
Cloud Storage
Object Storage
Scale-out NAS
Cloud Backup Recovery and Restore (BURR)

Jon Toigo
Toigo Partners International

Expertise includes:
Buying storage smartly
Storage virtualization benefits
IO issues in server/desktop virtualization
DR, BC and HA (and how they're different)
Tape (and how it sticks!)


TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Available from 1:00 - 2:00 PM

Randy Kerns
Evaluator Group

Expertise includes:
Archiving
Storage tiering
Thin provisioning
Storage efficiency
Compliance  

Brian Madden
BrianMadden.com

Expertise includes:
Application and desktop virtualization
Storage for VDI
The consumerization of IT, what it is (and isn't)
Windows applications
Enterprise desktops

Dennis Martin
Demartek

Expertise includes:
Solid-state storage
Fibre Channel
iSCSI
FCoE
Microsoft server application storage best practices

Ben Woo
Neuralytix, Inc.

Expertise includes:
Big Data
Tape backup
Storage systems
SSDs
Economics of IT