June 28 isn't so far off now.
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Wednesday May 26, 9:59 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Peripheral Concepts-Sponsored Network Storage '99 to be Held in Monterey, June 28-30
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 1999--Storage networking will radically change the way data is accessed and managed along with altering the parameters with which IT managers buy and integrate storage and how vendors supply it.
Storage networking will slowly infiltrate all aspects of networking and storage, and, in doing so, will provide opportunities to new players while threatening established vendors that may be caught unprepared.
''Storage Networking - An Industry Revolution'' is the theme of the Network Storage '99 conference, to be held in Monterey, Calif. from June 28 to June 30. In its sixth year, the annual Network Storage conference has established itself as a premier forum for storage and storage networking topics.
More than 300 leading industry experts, IT professionals and vendors will attend to analyze the issues pertaining to system products, applications and solutions. Hardware and software network solutions and customer experience are discussed in team presentations of two presenters, with many IS participants.
The opening event for Network Storage '99 at 1 p.m. on Monday, June 28, will be a keynote address by David Weiss, chairman, president and CEO, Storage Technology Corp.
On Tuesday afternoon, Network Storage '99 will host its Executive Roundtable assessing the network storage industry, with the participation of:
Marilyn Edling, general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions Division, Hewlett-Packard;
Michael Lambert, senior vice president, Enterprise Systems Group, Dell Computer Corp.;
Mark Leslie, chairman and CEO, VERITAS Software;
Janpieter Scheerder, president, Network Storage, Sun Microsystems;
Dan Warmenhoven, president and CEO, Network Appliance Inc; and
David Weiss, chairman, president and CEO, Storage Technology Corp.
This is a single track conference with five half-day sessions and a technology exhibit that runs from Monday, 5 p.m. through Tuesday, 2 p.m.
Users are represented in the panel discussion by IT executives of several corporations including: Aera Energy, American Protective Services, Experian, Polk Company and United Space Alliance.
Speaking vendors include:
SESSION 1: "SAN and NAS -- Implementations and Applications"
Compaq, IBM, Oracle Corp., StorageTek and Network Appliance
Corp.
SESSION 2: "New Classes of Storage Management"
VERITAS Software Inc., Highground Systems, Bull Worldwide
Information Systems, CommVault Systems Inc., Retrieve Inc.,
Sun Microsystems and Legato Systems
SESSION 3: "SAN -- The Interconnection Fabric"
McDATA Corp., Polk Company, Computer Network Technology and
Brocade
SESSION 4: "Resource and Data Sharing"
CrosStor Software, Creative Design Solutions, XIOtech Corp.,
and Artecon Inc.
SESSION 5: "Integrating Arrays and Libraries in SANs and LANs"
Horlson Information Strategies, Quantum, Hewlett-Packard
Company and Data General/CLARiiON
The conference is sponsored by Peripheral Concepts Inc., a Santa Barbara-based market consulting firm specializing in Storage and Storage Management, and co-sponsored by Computer Technology Review, Storage Management Solutions and InfoStor. |
