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Storage and High Availability Summit
Introduction
Corporate data continues to grow at an astounding rate -- some 300% annually by some estimates. With explosive growth in business-to-business commerce and business-to-customer interaction – much of it fueled by the Internet – continuous, real-time access to data is a business requirement. This summit examines the keenest, most powerful solutions that allow businesses to leverage storage and high-availability systems. What are the right decisions you’ll need to make to purchase, deploy and manage network storage systems? And what’s the best server, software, network and services infrastructure to make these systems fail-safe, secure, and ready for action.
Target audience: CIOs, CTOs, IS Directors, IS Managers, System Managers, Network Managers, System Administrators, Storage / Network Architect Managers, Server Infrastructure Managers, Exec Dir. Storage Tech., Sr. Technology Officer, Server Applications Managers
TUESDAY, June 25
9 AM – 9:50 Storage Connectivity Trends – Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Infiniband
Moderator: Tom Henderson, Principal Researcher, Extreme Labs
Panelist: Wayne Lam, Fiber Channel Association, VP, Marketing, FalconStor
While Fibre Channel and SCSI are well known, it’s important to understand other approaches, such as iSCSI, Storage on Ethernet, and the storage connectivity approach represented by the Infiniband Consortium (which is totally revisiting I/O technology.) Come hear how these new developments will affect the architecture of your data center over the next several years and how you can prepare for the changes.
10:00 - 10:50 TechXNY Keynote
11:00 – 11:50 Storage Resource Management (SRM) Alternatives
Moderator: David Hill, Research Director, Storage and Storage Management, Aberdeen Group
Panelist: Steven Toole, VP, Marketing, Precise WQuinn
Storage management solutions come in two flavors: as an integrated hardware set or as SRM add-ons. With today’s push for open frameworks, the choices are bound to multiply. This session examines the true nature of SRM and different approaches amongst vendors. We’ll see how well they provide the functions that your environment demands, and how well vendors’ products interoperate with different hardware. The goal: to get you positioned for changes in your company’s data delivery architecture.
11:50 – 12:00 Sponsor Session – Industry Spotlights
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch and In-Room Exhibit Viewing
12:30 – 1:00 SAN/Hi-Availability Keynote
1:00 – 1:30 In-Room Exhibit Viewing
1:30 - 2:20 TechXNY Keynote
2:30 – 3:20 Migrating to Networked Storage
Moderator: Richard Scannell, Vice President Strategy, Glass House Technologies
Once you’ve decided that a SAN or a NAS solution is right for your company, you need a migration plan that takes your company from direct attached storage farms to a networked solution. Moreover, you need to manage that migration with minimal down time, no data lost, and a technical team that is ready for new management responsibilities. This session addresses the technical and management pitfalls of migration, and provides strategies for overcoming them.
3:20 – 3:30 Sponsor Session – Industry Spotlights
3:30 – 4:20 The Future of Storage aka Where Should I Invest?
Moderator: Richard Lee, President and CEO, The Storage Consulting Group
Panelist: Glenn Hanus, Managing Director, Needham and Company
With storage technology changing so rapidly, how can each purchaser best assess the players and place his or her bets – whether investing in products or stocks. This session will feature competing approaches from traditional storage companies and network storage startups, together with perspective from the investors who are placing bets – with you – on new technologies.
WEDNESDAY, June 26
9 AM – 9:50 Security in Network Storage
Moderator: Himanshu Dwivedi, Managing Security Architect, @Stake
Panelist: Scott Gordon, Vice President, Marketing, NeoScale Systems
The September 2001 terrorist attacks and increased business requirements for continuity and capacity have forced IT to re-think its present and evolving storage strategies. Regardless of the underlying storage infrastructure, whether it is based on Fibre Channel Protocol, iSCSI, or file-based network protocols (NAS), organizations must tackle known SAN security challenges in order to realize the benefits of greater resource utilization and data accessibility. This session will review network storage security issues, standards such as IPSec, and best practices and techniques to alleviate component attacks, system abuse, data theft and corruption.
10:00 - 10:50 TechXNY Keynote
11 AM – 11:50 Business Continuity, High-Availability and ROI
Moderator: Michael Karp, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Management Associates
When core business systems are down, you lose time, money, and customer loyalty. This session provides a systematic approach to calculating ROI for highly available computing infrastructures. What’s the effect on your company’s bottom line and how can use that information to sell your boss and business partners to get the resources you need? Losing mission-critical systems can spell disaster; high-availability spells success.
11:50 – 12:00 Sponsor Session – Industry Spotlights
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch and In-Room Exhibit Viewing
12:30 – 1:00 SAN/Hi-Availability Keynote
1:00 – 1:30 In-Room Exhibit Viewing
1:30 - 2:20 TechXNY Keynote
2:30 – 3:20 What is Virtual Storage and How Do I Manage It?
Moderator: Dan Tanner, Senior Analyst, Storage and Storage Management, Aberdeen Group
Panelists: Michael Fink, CTO, Eisner LLP, Gary Rosenberg, CIO, Eisner LLP
Virtual storage and virtualization technology is designed to make it easier to implement and manage storage networks. But how does it work, how can it make your job easier and how can it improve your organization’s negotiating power when purchasing your next storage subsystem?
3:20 – 3:30 Sponsor Session – Industry Spotlights
3:30 – 4:20 High-Availability, Intrusion Detection and Virus Management
Moderator: Jim Quinn, VP, Technology, The Tolly Group
We all strive to halt virus attacks before they affect our computing environments. Many enterprises use classic signature scanning tools for detecting and eradicating viruses. Today there is a new class of behavior blocking tools that use innovative methods for stopping rogue code. This session compares the features and efficacy of today’s virus management tools.
THURSDAY, June 27
9 AM – 11:50 Workshop: Capacity Planning in the World of Networked
Storage Systems
Moderator: Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer Services
Many of us have experienced capacity nightmares. We've run out of disk space at inopportune times and have suffered accordingly. Capacity planning can help, but the only real solution is to have a plan and an architecture that can support rapid capacity expansion. This workshop describes technologies and techniques for handling rapid capacity expansion. Topics include scalable disk systems, dynamic capacity expansion, flexible SAN design, and scalable backup systems. An emphasis is put on solutions suitable for the mid-range data center.
11:50 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 2:20 Workshop: Business Continuity
Backup, Redundancy, Integrity, and Availability
Moderator: Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer Services
When most people think of business continuity, they imagine big price tags. Indeed, the best-known business continuity solutions can be cost-prohibitive. As a result, large organizations protect only their most vital resources, leaving other vital systems unprotected, while smaller companies live precariously without proper protection even on their vital systems. This workshop focuses on affordable business continuity solutions. Topics include data vaulting, real-time backup, disk-to-disk backup, virtual tape, client-level replication, and storage-level replication.
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