| Tuesday, September 25 |
| 4:00 pm-7:00 pm |
Delegate registration |
|
| 4:30 pm-6:00 pm |
Birds of a Feather
Network with the best! Take advantage of this opportunity to pick the brains of those working in environments similar to yours. This session is open only to end users like yourself. Neither press nor vendors are allowed. |
| Wednesday, September 26 |
| 8:00 am-8:50 am |
Registration and welcome refreshments |
| 8:50 am-9:00 am |
Welcome address presented by Mark Schlack, VP Editorial, Storage Media Group
Located in Main Ballroom |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Breakout sessions |
ENGINEERING:
Advanced SAN School I
Presented by Howie
Goldstein, President
Howard Goldstein
Associates, Inc. |
DATA PROTECTION:
Disk vs. Tape – The
Backup Battle
Presented by Brian
Greenberg, Director of Data Protection Services |
DISASTER RECOVERY:
Testing your DR Plan
Presented by Jon Toigo, CEO, Data Management Institute |
EXECUTIVE: Storage “On Demand” – Reengineering
the Storage
Supply Chain
Presented by Richard
Scannell, Senior Vice
President , GlassHouse
Technologies |
| 10:00 am-10:15 am |
Move to breakout rooms |
10:15 am-11:15 am |
Breakout sessions |
ENGINEERING:
Advanced SAN School II
Presented by Howie
Goldstein, President
Howard Goldstein
Associates, Inc.
|
DATA PROTECTION:
Convergent Evolution in Data Protection and Archiving
Presented by Lauren
Whitehouse, Analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group
|
ARCHITECTURE: Four Challenges To Making Server and Storage Virtualization Work
Steve Norall, Analyst, TanejaGroup |
EXECUTIVE: How-to: Working Through a Litigation Recovery Request
Presented by Michael A. Clark, Managing Director, EDDix LLC |
| 11:15 am-11:30 am |
Morning Break |
11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Emerging Technology Showcase
Today’s hottest start-ups in the storage market present in a 10-minute rapid-fire format.
Located in Main Ballroom |
| 12:30 pm-1:45 pm |
Lunch - Located in Americas Hall II |
1:45 pm-2:45 pm |
Breakout sessions |
EXECUTIVE: What
Storage Managers Are Buying
Presented by Rich
Castagna, Editor-in-Chief, Storage magazine
|
DISASTER RECOVERY:
SNIA End User Council panel discussion – “Evolving Storage
Infrastructures”
Moderated by Ron Durbin, UCSD with
* Paul Ferraro, QUALCOMM
* Gary Pilafas, United
* Jackson Shea, Regence
* Marty LeFebvre, Nielsen
|
ENGINEERING: The
Benefits of Networked
Storage with Virtual
Servers (VMware)
Presented by Mark Peters, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy
Group
|
ARCHITECTURE:
Managing Storage on the LAN/WAN Edge
Presented by Tory Skyers, Network Administrator, Prudential |
| 2:45 pm-3:00 pm |
Afternoon Break |
| 3:00 pm-4:00 pm |
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Building a Highly Virtualized Storage Environment
Presented by Steve Duplessie, Founder & Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Located in Main Ballroom |
| 4:00 pm-6:30 pm |
Exhibit Hall Reception
The only event of its kind in New York! Enjoy complementary appetizers and cocktails as you meet reps and view product demos from the 60 most relevant storage technology providers – and network with more than 600 of your peers. Located in Americas Hall II
Sponsored by F5 |
| 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.
Sponsored by SGI |
| 6:30 pm-8:00 pm |
Hollywood Premiere Welcome Reception
Lights…camera…action…You are invited to premiere night at Storage Decisions. Hook into a bit of the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to close out the first day of Storage Decisions in style.
Sponsored by NEC |
| Thursday, September 27 |
| 8:30 am-8:50 am |
Welcome refreshments |
| 8:50 am-9:00 am |
Welcome address presented by Mark Schlack, VP Editorial, Storage Media Group
Located in Main Ballroom |
9:00 am-10:00 am |
Breakout sessions |
ENGINEERING:
Breaking Storage
Barriers – Wide area Data Services
Presented by Arun Taneja, Founder and Senior Analyst, Taneja Group
|
ENGINEERING: Using
Virtualization to Deliver Storage
Presented by Marc Staimer, President & CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting
|
EXECUTIVE: Data Dangers - How Rogue Data Can Hurt You
Presented by Mark Diamond, CEO, Contoural
|
DATA PROTECTION:
Advanced Backup
School I
Presented by W. Curtis
Preston, VP Data
Protection Services,
Glasshouse Technologies
|
| 10:00 am-10:15 am |
Move to breakout rooms |
10:15 am-11:15 am |
Breakout sessions |
ENGINEERING: Realworld
Virtualization
Presented by Matt Yotko, Director of Technology
Infrastructure, IAC
|
ARCHITECTURE:
Tiered Storage & Data Classification School I
Presented by Greg Forest, VP Delivery Services, Contoural
|
EXECUTIVE: Buying
Storage – What the
Vendors Don’t Want You to Know
Presented by Bill Peldzus, Director, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery & Data Center, GlassHouse Technologies
|
DATA PROTECTION:
Advanced Backup
School II
Presented by W. Curtis
Preston, VP Data
Protection Services,
Glasshouse Technologies
|
| 11:15 am-11:30 am |
Morning Break |
11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Meet the VARs
Value-added resellers give you 10-minute insights into customer projects.
Located in Main Ballroom |
12:30 pm- 1:45 pm |
Lunch - Located in Americas Hall II |
| 1:45 pm-2:45 pm |
Breakout sessions |
ENGINEERING: Clustering for Performance
Presented by Greg Schulz,
Founder and Sr. Analyst
StorageIO
|
ARCHITECTURE: Tiered Storage & Data Classification
School II
Presented by Greg Forest, VP Delivery Services, Contoural
|
DISASTER RECOVERY:
The Three Fold ITIL Process Path to
Disaster Recovery & Continuity of
Storage Operations (COOP) Nirvana
Presented by Dr. D Akira Robinson,
Consulting Computer Scientist, US Navy |
2:45 pm-3:00 pm |
Afternoon Break |
| 3:00 pm-4:00 pm |
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Getting to Green: Managing Data for Efficient Provisioning and Effective Protection
Presented by Jon Toigo, CEO, Data Management Institute
Located in Main Ballroom |
| 4:00 pm-6:00 pm |
Ask the Experts
Get one-on-one advice and have your questions answered by conference speakers in our "Ask-the-Experts" area.
Sponsored by SGI |
| 4:00 pm-6:30 pm |
Exhibit Hall Reception
Day two of our exhibit hall reception provides more networking time with vendors and peers, plus more great giveaways including your second chance to in a large screen hi-def TV. This reception will prove invaluable for your 2008 storage planning – we guarantee it! Located in Americas Hall II
Sponsored by Seagate |
| Friday, September 28 |
| 8:30 am-9:00 am |
Registration and morning refreshments |
| 9:00 am-10:00 am |
DATA PROTECTION: Encryption and Archive Arrive
Presented by W. Curtis Preston, VP Data Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies |
| 10:00 am-10:15 am |
Morning Break |
| 10:15 am-11:15 am |
ARCHITECTURE: Different Shades of Green -- Storage and Data Infrastructure Power and Cooling
Presented by Greg Schulz, Founder and Sr. Analyst StorageIO |
| 11:15 am-12:15 pm |
DISASTER RECOVERY: Replication, Rolling Disasters and Testing
Presented by Bill Peldzus, Director, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery & Data Center, GlassHouse Technologies |
| 12:15 pm |
Conference adjourns |
