2nd ANNUAL SAN & CLUSTERING SUMMITS at P C E X P O ‘2000

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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Monday June 26...	One Full Day Conference Program
Tuesday June 27...	10:00 am - 5:00 pm PC EXPO Exhibits Open

Information is power! But only if you can access it quickly and effectively. From e-business to data warehouses and distributed computing, there is a great demand for increased storage capacity. Most companies have responded to this need through a never-ending round of fatter pipes and bigger servers. But then comes the crunch resulting from a single point of failure!

There is a better solution to this data logjam, and that is the proven and established technology called Clustering. Linking multiple servers together in a flexible and scalable manner means that you will have the high availability you need when you need it, regardless of load timing and volume. At the heart of making these clustered servers available despite demand peaks and ever increasing volume is the concept of Load Balancing, which control the workload going to each server. Together, Clustering and Load Balancing can handle all the information you throw at them. But where can you get in-depth information on Clustering and Load Balancing?

At the Clustering / Load Balancing Summit at PC EXPO 2000! You will get the information and insight you need to prepare your organization for the next wave in computing. Whether you are a true e-business or just use the Internet as a tool, you will need these storage management and control techniques and technologies.

By attending the Clustering / Load Balancing Summit, you will:

• learn the fundamentals of these important technologies
• re-think your strategy for configuring servers and storage
• understand the differences in the three basic classes of load balancers
• meet many of the experts in these two related technologies and have the opportunity to ask them direct questions
• be able to make the technical decisions needed for evaluation and implementation

Room 1E09, First Level, Jacob Javits Convention Center

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast – 1E Hall

9:00 - 9:50 Clustering Basics: How to deploy the right architecture to deliver Internet content
Presenter: Steven McDowell, Technology Evangelist, Network Engines
Traditional computer and network architectures work well for most enterprise applications, but they begin to break down when applied to delivering Internet content. This session presents a cohesive view of how the various clustering technologies can be leveraged to solve Internet content serving problems. It analyzes the underlying issues and presents a clearly defined clustering architecture that allows for scalable, reliable, and high-performance content serving to the Internet.

10:00 - 10:50 NextGen Web Hosting Trends: An Update of the Web Hosting Market
Presenter: Courtney Monroe, Program Director, IDC
During the year 2000, the Web Hosting market will experience dramatic market growth. Competition will be intense, as all of the major Hosting Service Providers ramp up new data centers. One of the major competitive differentiators will be how providers implement enhanced platforms to facilitate eCommerce activities on a global basis. Competitive hosting SPs must be able to provide dot.coms and corporate enterprises with global content distribution, load balancing and streaming media services. This session will provide an overview and update of the market, including market shares of the leader players, data center buildouts, and how HSPs are implementing new NextGen platforms to facilitate enhanced services such as content distribution and streaming media.

11:00 - 11:50 Clustering Services in Windows 2000
Presenter: Paul Massiglia, Technical Director, Engineering, Veritas Software Corporation
This session presents approaches to clustering in Windows server operating systems including discussion of the clustering infrastructure in the current and future implementations of Windows 2000. We will focus on architectural principles of clustering, Microsoft's approach, other vendor approaches, and how customers are using Windows clusters today and what new application possibilities may be enabled in the future.

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:50 Advanced Storage Management Solutions for Clustered Environments
Presenter: Thomas Lok, Director of Product Management, CommVault Systems, Inc.
This session focuses on advanced storage management strategies and architectures for clustered computing environments. It shows how industry-leading and next generation storage management solutions can improve management, reduce administration cost and assist data availability for clustered environments. Among the topics covered are storage resource management, storage area networks, backup and recovery, replication and application availability.

2:00 - 2:50 Clustering Architectures
Presenter: Frederick Glover, Senior Consulting Engineer, Compaq Computer Corp.
With clustering loosely defined as a group of independent computing systems working together as a single system, there are a number of hardware and software architectures that can be used to develop a cluster. Hardware architectures can be shared-disk, shared-nothing, hybrids, server-based, SAN-based and switching-based implementations. Software architectures can include middleware-based clusters, mirroring-type clusters, and load-balancing clusters. We'll examine these alternatives in terms of availability, scalability and manageability.

3:00 - 3:50 High Availability in the Enterprise: New Advances in Linux Cluster Technology
Moderator: Nick Carr, Director, Professional Services, Mission Critical Linux
Linux offers many advantages for those who desire low-cost, high-end computing. However, issues concerning Linux's ability to cost-effectively deliver high availability with complete data integrity on commodity hardware have in the past created a significant barrier to making Linux the undisputed choice for commercial environments. This session will discuss how recent advances in Linux clustering technology can offer high availability and eliminate data corruption at a price point attractive to commercial endeavors. In his presentation, Mr. Carr will stress how these advances can be applied to a variety of applications.

4:00 - 5:15 Roundtable Discussion: SAN and Clustering Directions
Moderator: Richard Lee, Editor at Large, InfoStor Magazine
This joint session will be an open and lively discussion of the current and near-term developments in SAN, clustering and load-balancing applications and technologies. The conversation – which brings together vendors, users and analysts – will be a highly interactive event, and your chance to have your opinions heard, so be sure to join it.

Simply stated, SANs promise server-independent, scalable, centralized storage that will solve real problems for most companies. Consider these projections:

By 2003, the average server storage capacity will grow by over 400%

There will be a severe shortage of people to manage vast storage systems on a server-by-server basis

96% of respondents to a recent research survey say their companies plan to deploy a network storage product in 2000

IDC forecasts over $10 billion in direct and indirect SAN sales in 2003

Storage Area Network (SAN) technology has become the solution of choice for storage and data connection applications. Acting like a network within a network, and often running parallel to the production LAN, SANs are optimized solely to transmit and store large quantities of data. By interconnecting servers and storage at extremely high speeds, SANs provide the reliability, scalability, performance, fault tolerance, mirroring and other services you need to maximize the benefits of your data and the applications that use it.

The SAN Summit Conference is designed specifically to get you up to speed on what SANs are, how they work, what they can do for you, how they fit into your systems environment, and what the industry is doing to provide solution-based products. By attending the SAN Summit at PC Expo, you will:

• learn the fundamentals of SANs
• understand the elements of the technology pieces, from servers through adapters, hubs and switches to the connection network and management tools
• see how SANs relate to technologies like Clustering and RAID
• know how SANs can support your e-commerce initiatives
• be able to set your implementation strategy based on solid information and direct contact with the leading SAN vendors and experts

Room 1E20, First Level, Jacob Javits Convention Center

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast – 1E Hall

9:00 - 9:50 Introduction to SANs
Presenter: Thomas Henderson, Chief Technologies, Extreme Labs
This session will explore one of the hottest acronyms in the industry today -- SAN (Storage Area Networking). It will explore what SANs are and why they are becoming an important element of the new enterprise computing environment. Additionally, this session will describe the business benefits of SANs and how they can enhance access to critical information, provide improved data availability, better system performance, and lower cost of ownership.

10:00 - 10:50 SAN Operating Systems
Presenter: Augie Gonzales, Director, Product Marketing, DataCore Software Corp.
At the core of all SANs, as in other IT infrastructures, is the operating system. SAN implementation is traditionally based on Unix, but is being challenged by Linux and Microsoft. This session will provide an in-depth overview of the capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of the various alternatives to help you better determine the OS best for your implementation.

11:00 - 11:50 SAN Hardware and Software
Presenter: Don Trimmer, Senior Technical Strategist, Legato Systems, Inc.
There are both hardware and software components crucial to practical and successful implementation of SANs. This session will address the capabilities each brings to a functional and powerful SANs. Software features include LUN exclusion and management, intelligent data pathing, smart caching, local and remote replication, server failover, event reporting, global management, and efficient backup over the SAN. Hardware challenges include bandwidth required by Web-based applications, latency and predictability, and the performance and resiliency required by mission critical applications.

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:50 SANs and e-Commerce
Presenter: Dimitri Chernyshov, Marketing Manager – SANergy, Tivoli Systems Inc.
Businesses involved in e-commerce are taking a strong interest in SANs to handle the vast amounts of transaction data generated, and to provide the huge capacity needed for analyzing the data through techniques like data mining. By using SANs to handle storage resource reallocation, e-businesses can have the flexibility and scalability they need. This session examines how SANs can help solve one of e-commerce's most pressing problems.

2:00 - 2:50 Interoperability and Standards
Presenter: Bill Peldzus, Technology Manager and Storage Architect Lead, Imation
Effective migration to a storage area network (SAN) architecture requires significant investment in time and resources to validate the interoperability, standards-compliance and compatibility of the numerous storage components. Who's creating the standards, who's complying with those standards, and who does a customer turn to when a SAN doesn't work as advertised? What's the status of those advertised "SAN applications"? This session will discuss SAN interoperability issues and Imation's response to customer's concerns and issues regarding stability, interoperability, and proof-of-concept in storage area networking, both today and into the future.

3:00 - 3:50 SAN Management: Making SANs Work
Presenter: Richard Lee, President/CEO, Data Storage Technologies, Inc.
Storage area networks are an integral part of clustered computing environments, so SAN management must be included in the overall management scheme. The complexities of SANs impose management challenges above and beyond those prevalent in standard storage and networking environments. The primary challenges of managing a storage area network are identified and an object-oriented storage network management model is presented as a solution to these challenges.

4:00 - 5:15 Roundtable Discussion: SAN and Clustering Directions
Moderator: Richard Lee, Editor at Large, InfoStor Magazine
This joint session will be an open and lively discussion of the current and near-term developments in SAN, clustering and load-balancing applications and technologies. The conversation – which brings together vendors, users and analysts – will be a highly interactive event, and your chance to have your opinions heard, so be sure to join it.

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