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Date	Location
Thu. Oct. 2	Atlanta, GA
Tue. Oct. 7	Columbus, OH
Tue. Oct. 21	Toronto, ON

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W. Curtis Preston , VP of Data Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc., and Ashish Nadkarni, GlassHouse Principal Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc., will provide advice and insight to help storage professionals manage, grow and optimize SAN technology. A popular presentation at the Storage Decisions conferences, Preston and Nadkarni will expand this popular presentation to a full-day of tips and analysis to help storage managers to best implement and streamline SAN technology.

They will start off the day with the "State of the SAN" address. This is not a primer for beginners, rather a review of the playing field for experienced IT managers which includes insights into the capabilities (and shortcomings) of today's technology, as well as best practices SAN managers employ today.

As the day progresses, they will look at the merits of pooling SAN islands, migration techniques, improving application availability and how to troubleshoot SAN problems. They'll also touch on where NAS fits into the networked storage landscape by addressing NAS gateway and NAS head technology.

Lastly, they'll cover the future of SAN technology and attempt to uncover where SANs are headed.

Keynote Speakers

W. Curtis Preston, VP of Data Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
W. Curtis Preston is the Vice President of Data Protection Services at GlassHouse Technologies. He authored Using SANs and NAS and Unix Backup and Recovery, the seminal O'Reilly book on backup. He has been designing storage systems for more than 10 years and has designed systems for environments ranging from backup systems for small businesses to enterprise storage systems for Fortune 100 companies. His passion for backup and recovery began with managing the data growth of a 24x7, mission-critical environment. Since that time, Preston has been able to help many companies design resilient storage systems, and his client list includes many Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.

 

Ashish Nadkarni, GlassHouse Principal Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.

Ashish Nadkarni brings more than 10 years of experience in the systems and storage industry to GlassHouse with vast experience designing and implementing complex storage solutions. Ashish has spoken on storage issues at conferences such as The National Association of Information Destruction and Storage World. Ashish is also a contributor to key IT and storage publications. Before joining GlassHouse, Ashish was a senior systems architect at Genuity; a senior systems engineer at Computer Sciences Corporation; and a training and education consultant at EMC. He holds a Masters degree in Physics from the University of Pune, India and is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP).

Topics include:

• Virtualization options
  
• When and where: 2Gb, 4Gb, 8Gb, 10Gb Ethernet
  
• Provisioning the right way
  
• Switch architecture
  
• SATA and SAS – changing the economics of SAN
  
• Connecting remote offices
  
• New array players

What you can expect

In each seminar in this series, your morning starts out with a full buffet breakfast and ends with a giveaway from our event sponsors. The agenda includes time for Q&A, networking opportunities and tons of valuable information -- and you get it all for FREE.

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