12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Golf Tournament for Pre-registered attendees
(Disney - Lake Buena Vista)
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Pre-Conference Networking Reception
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Monday, October 30, 2000
7:30 a.m. Breakfast Sponsored by
8:45 a.m. Introduction
9:00 a.m. Morning Keynote Address: "Information Infrastructure for a Connected World"
Michael Ruettgers, President & CEO - EMC Corporation
9:30 a.m. Keynote Q & A session
AM Theme: New Storage Directions
9:40 a.m. SNIA Technology Roadmap: Setting the Pace for the Industry
Dave Anderson - SNIA Technical Council
10:10 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. "Rebuilding the Plane While Flying it - Building the E-Business Infrastructure"
Larry Peterson, Vice President - Gelco Information Network
This presentation will focus on the challenges of re-engineering the data center to support a Business model calling for a transition to an internet-based product set.
11:00 a.m. Executive Industry Roundtable: "Reality Check on Enterprise SANs"
Moderator: Maryfran Johnson, Editor-in-Chief - Computerworld
This lively, moderated panel discussion will explore the complexities of choosing, installing and managing SANs, drawing on the real-world experiences of corporate users and the industry perspective of selected vendor keynotes. Panel Members: Max Watson, President and CEO, BMC Software; Rudolph Alexander, Vice President and Managing Partner, Business Continuity Solutions, AT&T; Linda Sanford, Sr. V.P., Storage Group, IBM Group; Larry Peterson, Vice President, Gelco Information Network, David Knight, COO and CTO, click2send.com
11:40 a.m. Roundtable Q & A Session
11:55 a.m. Interactive "topical" luncheon with Users, Speakers, Analysts and SNIA Board Members
1:15 p.m. Afternoon Keynote Address: "Storage Coexistence and Convergence in a Network World"
Greg Reyes, President & CEO - BROCADE
This informative keynote presentation goes to the heart of the issue - reexamining what the networking of storage environments was intended to solve, where storage networking technologies are moving the future, and how SAN and NAS technologies will exist in an increasingly converged networked world.
1:45 p.m. Keynote Q & A Session
PM Theme: The Elements of Managing Storage Area Networks
1:55 p.m. "Simplifying Storage Management - NAS Appliances"
Rick Bauer, CIO - The Hill School
The Hill School's network complexity and data capacity faced rapid growth without corresponding headcount or budgetary increases. It chose to implement network attached storage to solve both its explosive growth in data storage and its need to efficiently manage that storage.
2:25 p.m. Break
2:40 p.m. Case Study: A Storage Success Story
Greg Cherry, Associate, Acxiom
3:10 p.m. Interoperability: "The Storage Networking Challenge"
John Webster, Senior Analyst and IT Advisors - Illuminata, Inc.
To address user demand for heterogeneity and interoperability among devices and management applications within a networked storage environment, vendors have formed alliances and consortia to establish standards by which they will develop and implement storage networking solutions. This presentation will address how the survival of storage networking depends on interoperability among it's many components and constituents.
3:40 p.m. "Developing a Global Storage Capability on Windows 2000"
David Knight - CTO and COO, click2send.com
4:10 p.m. "Introducing the SNW Interoperability Lab" David Deming, President, Solution Technology
4:25 p.m. Summary and Closing Day One Q & A
4:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Cocktail Networking Reception, Expo, Interoperability Lab, Buffet Dinner
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Tuesday, October 31, 2000
7:30 a.m. Breakfast Sponsored by
8:45 a.m. Introduction
9:00 a.m. Morning Keynote Address: "OPEN for e-business"
Linda Sanford, Senior Vice President, Storage Group - IBM Corp
In e-business, a company's information — its crown jewels — must be universally accessible and available 24 hours every day. Storage networking solutions must work seamlessly, not only with servers but with other storage devices.
9:25 a.m. Keynote Questions and Answers session
AM Theme: Enabling the Next Generation of Storage
9:35 a.m. "A First-Hand Look at Storage Resource Management and its Impact on Server Consolidation Projects and SAN Planning"
Ian Saggers, Director, Global Engineering - Credit Suisse First Boston
An analysis of the importance of storage resource management (SRM) policies and disciplines in reference to storage efficiencies will be discussed. In particular, Saggers will detail the impact SMR software had on the design and planning of CSFB's extensive SAN architecture.
10:05 a.m. Break
10:20 a.m. Morning Keynote Address: "The Strategic Value of Managed Data"
Peter H. van Oppen, Chairman of the Board & CEO - ADIC
Each year enterprise data demands - capacity, transmission, and management - are becoming larger, more complex, and more central to organizational missions. To thrive in this changing environment, IT departments and solution suppliers must preserve a wide range of options and recognize that the future is inherently unpredictable.
10:45 a.m. Keynote Q & A Session
10:55 a.m. SAN Virtualization - A Financial Analyst's Perspective
Tom Curlin, Associate Vice President - Morgan Keegan and Company
Interoperability initiatives eventually will enable the implementation of advanced SAN solutions that allow the attachment of thousands of servers and storage components supplied by multiple vendors. Demand for this level of integration will accelerate with the availability of sophisticated software elements that allows users and applications to access and control the SAN as a single, homogeneous pool of resources. The emerging link in the SAN value chain represents a compelling market opportunity for software, system, and storage vendors.
11:20 a.m. "Interoperability in the Storage Networking Industry" - Panel Discussion
The survival of storage networking depends on interoperability among its many components and constituents. While the networked storage industry is on the verge of meteoric growth, its single biggest growth inhibitor is the need for the myriad hardware devices and software applications produced by over 200 different vendors to interoperate both reliably and predictably.
Moderator: John Webster, Senior Analyst and IT Advisor - Illuminata Inc.
Panelists: Paul Massiglia, Technical Director - VERITAS; Brenda Christensen, Vice President - Troika Networks; Tom Clark, Technical Director - Vixel; Jonathan Otis, Vice President - ADIC; Eric Madison, Director of Storage Engineering - Usinternetworking
12:00 noon Buffet luncheon served on the Exhibit Floor
1:30 p.m. Afternoon Keynote Address: "How Storage Networking Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Way You Do Business"
David Roberson, Chief Operating Officer - Hitachi Data Systems
Fibre Channel and other enabling technologies have set the stage for a profound change in the way companies organize themselves to manage information, as well as in the tools they deploy to support the effort. Now that the value of storage networks have been demonstrated, this keynote will explore the other solutions that can more easily come into play.
2:00 p.m. Keynote Q & A Session
2:10 p.m. First Data Corp SAN Initiative
John W. Gleeson, Director of Production Control - First Data Corporation
First Data Corporation's SAN initiative documents the proof of concept testing as completed in its Denver, Colorado data center. This presentation details the steps taken to set up the environment, schematics showing the distributed and midrange systems, sharing disk and tape subsystems and the conclusions at the end of the test phase. It details the current environment and where the data center is currently in its SAN initiative and where it plans to be in 2001 and beyond.
2:40 p.m. Managing a Layered Infrastructure: Achieving Quality of Service in a SAN Environment
Robin Purohit, Senior Director - Veritas
3:10 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. "Keeping the Digital Ink Flowing - a Case Study in the Integration of Storage Technologies"
Graham Allan, Manager, Systems Application - Walt Disney Feature Animation
Walt Disney Feature Animation has faced the challenges of storing and managing a rapidly increasing volume of digital assets. Disney engineers have constructed a sophisticated data management infrastructure utilizing online, temporary near-line and permanent long-term media, Hippi, ATM and ethernet networks, and significant in-house software development. In uniting four separate physical locations into a single "virtual studio", the asset management is as good as hidden from the artists, freeing them to focus on the creative processes. This "case study" re-traces that path of analysis and implementation and reflects on the results.
4:00 p.m. "Network Storage for the Internet"
Robert Gray, Analyst/Research Director, Storage Systems - IDC
Traditional approaches to storage systems for Internet Data Centers, for E-Business and for Internet Content Distribution are being challenged by new suppliers, architectures and value models. Understand how the specific needs and requirements of these applications are driving solutions that will create new leaders in this massive market opportunity.
4:30 p.m. "Putting all the Pieces Together: The E-Management Difference"
Peter Keen, Author, The E-Process Edge, and Chairman - Keen Innovations
5:00 p.m. Summary and Closing Day Two Q & A Session
5:15 p.m. Cocktail Networking Reception
6:30 p.m. Gala Dinner & Entertainment
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Wednesday, November 1, 2000
(**** = Joint Session of Tutorial Tracks A + B)
Technical Tutorials Track A
8:30 a.m. **** "How a Network Service Provider Utilizes the SSP Model to Achieve the Maximum Storage Benefits in a SAN, NAS Environment"
Ilene Kaminsky, Vice President, HTE8
9:00 a.m. "Achieving an Open SAN"
Stephen Sicola, Technical Director - Compaq
The OpenSAN is a challenge to the industry to allow for storage components and solutions from all vendors to co-exist on the SAN. This is similar to the challenge that faced networked computers in the 80s and 90's. This presentation will describe the actions required to achieve the OpenSAN, and the current state of the process towards it. Specific examples of OpenSANs will be cited, as well as the open issues that need to be addressed,regardless of interconnect used for the SAN.
9:30 a.m. Storage Wide-Area Networking at the Speed of Light
Dennis Talluto, Director - Storage Network Business Development, Nortel Networks
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. "The SSP: Managing the Data Deluge"
Bruce Gordon, Vice President, StorageNetworks, Inc.
10:45 a.m. "The Technology for IP based Storage Networking"
Doug Ingraham, Manager of Product Management, Cisco Systems
11:15 a.m. "Various and Evolving Approached to SAN Security"
Werner Zucher, SAN Evangelist - Veritas
11:45 a.m. Interoperability Lab Demonstrations
12:30 p.m. Buffet Luncheon
1:30 p.m. Accelerating NAS with SAN Infrastructure
Gordon Harris, CTO/Vice President of Deployment - CrosStor Software
2:05 p.m. "The Coming SAN-Centric World"
Kelly Polanski, Business Line Manager, Legato Systems
2:40 p.m. "SAN for the Masses"
Robert Lefkowits, Vice President, Alidian Networks
Today's storage networks are plagued by interoperability and management problems that add cost and complexity to managing storage resources. Policy based storage resource management promised to address this by automating the management and maintaining service levels. This talk will focus on some of the technologies that are being applied to these areas and the standards that exist and are emerging.
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. "Policy Based Storage Networking: Service Level Management"
Mark A. Carlson, Senior Solutions Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
4:00 p.m. Interoperability Lab Demonstrations
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
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Technical Tutorials Track B
8:30 a.m. **** "How a Network Service Provider Utilizes the SSP Model to Achieve the Maximum Storage Benefits in a SAN, NAS Environment"
Ilene Kaminsky, Vice President, HTE8
9:00 a.m. Cutting Through the Hype: A Methodical Approach to Managed Storage Services
Kirby Wadsworth, Vice President - Storability
9:30 a.m. Interoperability: The User's Challenge
Gary Johnson, Sr. Director - Consulting Service, CNT
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. An Introduction to Data Access File Systems
David Dale, Industry Evangelist, Network Appliance
10:45 a.m. AM "Inventing the Future of Network Storage"
Don Kleinschnitz, GM, Integrated Solutions, Hewlett- Packard
11:15 a.m. SAN Management Data Challenges
Don Deel, CTO - Prisa Networks
11:45 a.m. Interoperability Lab Demonstrations
12:30p.m. Buffet Luncheon
1:30 p.m. Data Networking Protocols
Hu Yoshida, VP, Data Networks - Hitachi Data Systems
2:05 p.m. An Object-Oriented Pluggable Architecture for SAN Device Management Software
Am Lam, Principal Software Engineer - Gadzoox Networks
2:40 p.m. "Making Information Really Work to Deliver Business Value"
Dan Petrozzo, President and COO, StorageApps
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. "Development of an API Standard in Interoperable Storage Networking"
Ben Kuo, Engineering Manager, Troika Networks
4:00 p.m. Interoperability Lab Demonstrations
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
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There should be a lot of press from this conference.
Can the SNIA become an important /powerful entity?
Nice to see Nortel at SNIA. |
