Joe W., So after that FC market talk by IDC in May we go to mid June to get this conference. MFNX is going to a storage conference? I like it.
MONTEREY CONFERENCE CENTER - MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA
JUNE 11 (1:00PM) TO JUNE 14 (1:00pm), 2001
NETWORKED STORAGE-
IMPLEMENTATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
In sessions 1 and 6, each presentation lasts 25 minutes and is followed by 5 minutes Q & A
In sessions 2 to 5, each presentation lasts 20 minutes, and a 45-minute panel discussion concludes the session
Monday June 11, 2001 - Starts 1:00 pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: KEVIN DALY, President and CEO, Quantum/ ATL
SESSION 1- Track A: "Storage Networking- Products and Applications"
2:00- 4: 30 PRESENTATIONS
Networked Storage - Today and Tomorrow
Speaker to be named
With the rate of technology evolution, new requirements for scale, performance and availability are constantly raising the bar for network storage infrastructure. This presentation will discuss new developments that is driving an evolution of both SAN and NAS, to include the appliance model, the use of standard networks, faster networks, and new interfaces. Topics addressed include:
· The customer value objectives for SAN and NAS
· The storage infrastructure required by networked client demands for data
· The role of standards
*Scalability in the SAN
Dino Balafas, Qlogic
INRANGE
This presentation will examine the factors in building a SAN that can scale from 10 to 1000s of nodes. Scalability is the focus of the discussion, but additional key areas of focus will be:
· Available bandwidth
· Performance and Manageability
· HBAs, Switches and Directors
Go Q, INRG..my own bias.
Clustering and Data Sharing Go Mainstream
Anat Gafni, Vice President, Management Software Division, Troika Networks
Partner:
Application clustering is both a well-known and emerging technology for achieving high availability. This presentation will focus on what XSP's need to consider for meeting their SLA customer requirements with an integrated storage network, and will include the following discussion points:
· The infrastructure needed to recover and tolerate server to storage failures
· Protecting individual network and data protection investments by combining together legacy IP infrastructures with FC-based data center networks
· Application example will be profiled showing a MAN based cluster using non-proprietary, off the shelf components.
Using Virtualization to Achieve Quality of Storage Service
Robin Purohit, Senior Director Product Management, SAN and Clustering, Veritas Software
Partner:
This presentation will discuss storage virtualization as a set of tools that Storage Administrators can use as a basis for maintaining the Quality of Storage Service required by Storage Consumers, as well as the decision-making process surrounding where and when to implement virtualization. In addition, it will discuss the new technologies and architectures required in storage management to deliver on the true promise of virtualization in a SAN environment.
4:30 pm Panel:
Evolving Data Protection Strategies
Panel members include
Ken Cruden, Director Marketing, Exabyte
Alan Welsh, CEO, Columbia Data
Kevin Daly, President and CEO, ATL/Quantum
Microsoft
Michael Del Rosso, CTO, OTG Software
SESSION 1- Track B: " SAN, LAN and WAN - Unification"
2:00- 5:00 pm PRESENTATIONS
Extending SANs: Four Approaches
Tom Clark, Director Technical Marketing, Nishan Systems
This presentation will cover four different approaches to extending SANs over Metro and Wide Area Networks, including: run Fibre Channel over optical multiplexers (DWDM); tunnel Fibre Channel over IP packet-based networks; use native IP SANs; and use network attached storage (NAS). Key issues will include:
· Pros and cons of each approach
· Comparison of interoperability and ease of use
· Status and Applications
Optical in the Metro for Next Generation Networking
Carl Engineer, Title xxx, Cisco
Partner: Metro Media Fiber Networks
One of the most active technology growth areas is in metropolitan area networking (MAN). The rapid deployment of fiber optics, which began in the early 1980s, changed the fundamental business paradigms in the long distance inter-city markets. The widespread availability of dark fibers and low cost bandwidth will fundamentally change the way enterprise customers plan and architect their MANs. This presentation will examine the various ways this transition might take hold. Specific topics covered will include:
· How customers will take advantage of the migration from an environment of high-cost service or protocol-specific metered services to an environment of almost unlimited, protocol-independent bandwidth,
· The evolution of optical networking technologies such as DWDM and their ability to deliver the scalability, performance, reliability and high availability customers will need,
· The convergence of IP + Optical networking to create MAN/WAN solutions integration over ultrahigh capacity, connectionless network backbones, which will support bandwidth-intense applications such as scalable storage and rich media content delivery
Go MFNX. Now what if CSC wins the NSA 5 billion outsource?
10 GbE, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand Storage-Separate or Together?
Adaptec and BrocadeWhat will EMLX think?
This presentation will explain how three important SAN-enabling technologies-IP storage, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand-will coexist and compete in the market for deploying storage networks.
The differences and future interoperability will be discussed. These various elements will migrate towards compatibility as standards are developed and custom-designed storage solutions will be specifically developed for each enterprise. Topics will include:
· IP storage applications
· The roadmap for Ethernet towards 10-gigabit technology
· Technology advancements planned for Fibre Channel
InfiniBand and VI (Virtual Interface)- The Next Paradigm Shift in Storage Subsystems
Tom Ruwart, Chief Technology Officer, Ciprico
Partner: Streaming 21
For the past few years, many storage companies have been talking about how Storage Area Networks (SANs) are bringing Storage and Networking together. With the introduction of more powerful System Area Networks such as InfiniBand, it is now possible to bring Computing into the storage subsystems in a significant way. This talk looks at one aspect of how InfiniBand will have a significant positive impact on the design and application of future storage subsystems in the following areas:
· Tightly integrated storage subsystems (e.g. DAFS)
· Clustering storage subsystems
· Bandwidth and Transaction implications
· Software and Operating System Implications
5:00 - 5:30 PM Panel
Moderator: Tom Clark, Director Technical Marketing, Nishan Systems
5:30 - 7:30 Cocktail Reception
Tuesday June 12, 2001 11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
8:30 - 9:00 Conference Introduction and Market Update
Farid Neema, President, Peripheral Concepts, Inc.
9:00 - 9:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: LINDA SANFORD, Senior Vice President & Group Executive, Storage Systems Group, IBM Corporation
SESSION 2: "STORAGE AND NETWORKS- ARCHITECTURAL DIRECTIONS"
9:30-11:40 PRESENTATIONS
The new intelligent infrastructure for storage networking
Clod Barrera, Director of Systems Strategy, Storage Systems Division, IBM
New storage intensive applications are being developed and traditional enterprise applications are being more widely distributed. These applications will require new storage and network infrastructure to meet requirements for data rate, response time, data availability and management. A range of new technologies, including iSCSI, SAN file systems, NAS gateways, and replication services are emerging to met these needs.
· Technologies for IP storage, including NAS, iSCSI, and bridging protocols
· Advances in NAS, including gateways, and high performance protocols
· Replication and networked data management technologies that create 'federations' of NAS appliances.
Democratization of SAN and NAS
Karl D. Schubert , Vice President Storage Architecture, Dell Computer Corporation
Partner:
High availability SAN and NAS are expensive and are perceived to be complex. In this presentation, we will take a look how Dell is applying the "Dell Model" to the storage business to standardize and simplify storage solutions for customers. They key areas that will be covered include:
· The Dell Model and Vision
· Market Strategy and Positioning
· Potential Future Storage Technologies
Storage Networking - Coexistence and Convergence
Doug Fierro, Director, Enterprise Storage Networks, EMC Corporation.
Partner:
With so many options for connecting storage to servers to applications, often times a fictitious battle emerges pitting one 'competing' technology against another. Storage Networking doesn't need to be that way. SANs (FC), NAS (IP), Extended Technologies (iSCSI/SoIP) can coexist to help customers create strategic infrastructure for today and the future. This session will
address topics such as:
· Where are Heterogeneous Storage Networks today
· Why it's not SAN vs. NAS
· Extending Storage Networks
· The next wave of connectivity
11:40 AM- 12:30 PM - PANEL DISCUSSION
Invited Guests:
Mark Cree, General Manager, Storage Router Business Unit, Cisco Systems
Ken Hibbard, Vice PResident, Software Engineering, Network Appliance
Co- Moderator: Chris Wood, Director SAN Strategy, Sun Microsystems
SESSION 3: "USER'S APPLICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS - CASE STUDIES"
2:00-4:10 PRESENTATIONS
NAS in a Fast Growing Environment - Case Study
Rick Bauer, CIO, The Hill School
Introduced by: ADIC Corporation
The Hill School is using different kinds of NAS technology to solve both fast data access and high data volume applications more efficiently than they can with server attached storage. The presentation will cover the kinds of data storage problems that high data growth is creating in educational applications and how using solutions optimized for different applications is saving IT staff time while keeping data easily available to support the institutional mission.
· Using technology to support educational missions
· Organization impact of high data growth
· Enabling solutions
Total Cost of Ownership Revisited
End User, To be named
Dan Marshall, Vice president Sales, StorageWay
Outline to be provided by Dan Marshall
Finding a storage solution that fits
End user to be named
Kirby Wadsworth, Vice President Marketing, Storability
Data is growing exponentially in the Internet age, creating an exploding need for data storage and its management. Outsourcing this task is becoming a popular choice for many corporations. The shortage of IT talent and the growing complexity of storage technology means more and more companies will turn to storage service providers (SSPs) in the next few years. This presentation will explore the various storage solutions currently available and will let you decide which model is right for you. Attendees will learn:
· Why many companies choose to store their data off-site, but some hesitate because of security and availability concerns;
· How new technologies make it possible for SSPs to manage on-site critical data from a remote support center opening up a new space called storage assurance; and
· The differences between traditional storage services, storage over the Internet and storage assurance.
Intergrating Storage into Global Network Services
David Shouse - CIO Cummins Engine
Greg Mangold - VP Marketing, Creekpath Systems
Telco carriers, internet data centers, infrastructure providers and corporate data centers all strive to add storage services to their portfolio of managed value added services for their customers. To date, only the specialize Storage Service Providers (SSPs) Have been able to translate their unique storage networking expertise into a useable service, primarily through human resource deployment. Frustrated by the absence of automated provisioning, policy driven class of services, and intergrated operational support systems, most Global Service Providers have not attemtped to supply storage services. In this presentation we'll discuss:
· Storage as an intergral network resource
· The evolution of the niche SSP to Global Service Providers (GSP)
· Storage Class of Serviceneeds for outsourced storage
· Automated Storage Provisioning for scalable services
4:10 - 5:00 pm Panel
Co-Moderator: Mark Ferelli, Chief Editor, Computer Technology Review
5:00 - 9-00 PM Reception and Technology Exhibits
NS 2001 confirmed exhibitors include:
· Cisco (Platinum Sponsor)
Ciprico
· Compaq (Gold Sponsor)
· Columbia Data Products
· Emulex
· Exabyte (Platinum Sponsor)
· HP (Gold Sponsor)
· JMR
· KOM Networks(Silver Sponsor)
· McData
· Mountain View Data
· Netreon
· Network Disk
· OTG Software
· Q-Logic
· Quantum/ATL (Gold Sponsor)
SANavigator
· SAN Valley (Gold Sponsor)
· Storability (Silver Sponsor)
StorageTek
· StorageWay
· Tricord
Wednesday June 13, 2001 11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
SESSION 4: "ENTERPRISE STORAGE MANAGEMENT"
8:30- 9:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MARK LEWIS, Vice president and General Manager, Compaq's Storage Global Business Unit, Compaq Computer Corporation
9:00 - 11:10 Presentations
Managing SAN and NAS
Chris Wood, Director SAN Strategy, Sun Microsystems
Partner:
Outline Missing
Information Integrity Initiative for Storage Management
Paul Ellis, Director of Strategy and Business Development, Tivoli Systems Inc.
Partner
As IT-dependent companies develop increased competitive advantage from adept management of their information and data, they are turning to Information Integrity Initiatives to provide the structure for their storage strategies. Effective storage management needs to exploit SAN infrastructure to create storage solutions and networks that build business advantage. In this session, you will learn:
· Key areas where installations must be prepared for SAN implementation
· The challenges of implementing SAN technology
· How to transform islands of data into a united resource that shares information and multiplies its worth.
Critical analysis of network storage management
Don Kleinschnitz, general manager of Hewlett-Packard Storage Area Network Solutions
Partner:
This presentation focuses on critical analysis that must be conducted before implementing storage solutions. Don Kleinschnitz focuses on what evaluations must be carried out to produce specific storage management results.
Key issues include:
· Evaluating internal storage network needs
· Evaluating external storage network needs
· Evaluating the benefits of NAS, SAN network storage solutions
· Outsourcing: Benefits verses Disadvantages
Managing SAN in the Windows World
David Golds, Group Manager for Storage, Microsoft Corporation
Outline Missing
11:10 - 12:00 Panel
Co- Moderator: Clod Barrera, Director of Systems Strategy, Storage Systems Division, IBM
SESSION 5: SERVICES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS
Data storage moves to center stage
Sidney Kuo, Director of Product Line Management , Navisite
End User Partner:
This session will discuss the changes that e-commerce has brought to the
storage landscape. It will also discuss the pros and cons of in-house and
outsourced storage solutions and how to determine the best solution for your
company. Topics discussed include:
· Incorporating storage into an overall e-commerce architecture;
· Security Issues
· Service level agreements in a managed, hosted environment
· Advanced storage capabilities, i.e. storage on demand, flash storage.
Storage as a part of the backbone strategy - Moving the SSP to the Internet core
Speakers To be named
This presentation will focus on the role storage plays in your Internet strategy, particularly in supporting SSPs. Key issues will include:
· A new approach to virtualization and data security
· A proposal for alternate SSP revenue models.
· Feeding networks at OC768 rates
· Using the network to provide continuous availability strategies.
Session Moderator: Chris Wood, Vice President, SAN Strategy, Sun Microsystems
3:30 - 5:00 PM EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE: "ASSESSING THE STORAGE INDUSTRY"
Leading executives will assess today's situation and tomorrow's opportunities for the user, as well as for the storage industry's major participants, to include hardware and software suppliers, manufacturers and distribution channels.
· Mark Cree
General Manager, Storage Router Business Unit, Cisco Systems
· Nora Denzel
Vice President and General Manager, Network Storage Solutions Organization, Hewlet-Packard Company
· Mark Leslie
Chairman of the Board, VERITAS Software
· Mark Lewis
Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Storage Group, Compaq Computer Corporation· Stephen Luczo
Chief Executive Officer, Seagate Technology, LLC
· Linda Sanford
Senior Vice President & Group Executive, Storage Systems Group, IBM Corporation
Co- Moderator:
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. COCKTAIL RECEPTION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITS
Thursday June 14, 2001 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
SESSION 6- Track A: TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
8:30 - 12:00 Presentations
Storage over Ethernet: Key to the New "Always On" Infrastructure
Brice Clark Director, Strategic Planning, Network Infrastructure Solutions, Hewlett-Packard
SoE will help enable a new kind of "system" composed of utility storage, utility processing and a unified switching fabric using Gigabit and then 10 Gigabit Ethernet managed by an integrated system management tool set. To implement this new "e-plane" or Ethernet backplane will require storage solutions that run over Ethernet and TCP/IP.
Ethernet SANs - Panacea or Fantasy
Tom Heil, Senior Systems Architect, LSI Logic
This presentation defines an Ethernet SAN, and examines the Ethernet SAN value proposition. It then explores the hurdles that must be overcome before Ethernet becomes a viable alternative to Fiber Channel.
· What is an Ethernet SAN?
· What does Ethernet do that Fiber Channel can't do?
· What technical and market challenges must Ethernet overcome if it hopes to displace Fiber Channel?
Converging Interconnects: Infiniband, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Ethernet collide
in the Data Center
David R. Follett, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Emulex/Giganet
Never in the history of computing has there been such a meeting of major market waves. With the evolution of SANs, NAS, clusters and appliances each of these major industries is vying for control of the data center interconnection. This presentation will discuss:
· Can Ethernet evolve to meet the new requirements for performance, IPC & QOS required by distributed applications and storage?
· Fibre Channel: Can it evolve to address the IPC, QOS, interoperability and scalability challenges that lie ahead?
· Infiniband. Does it really address the key challenges facing modern data centers?
· What are some of the benefits of iSCSI and who should implement it?
· Is there going to be an explosion of multiprotocol switches and adapters to interconnect hybrid collections of these interconnects?
The Reality of Emerging Standards in Storage Networks
Sandy Helton, President and CEO, SAN Valley Systems
This session will explore:
· State of the industry
· Need for standards
· What standards are currently being considered
· What's on the horizon
"Storage Virtualization - The Myths and the Realities"
Kamel Shaath, Chief Technology Officer and V.P. Engineering, KOM Networks
Storage virtualization allows vendor neutral compatibility and the integration of multiple storage devices and technologies into a single storage network. The presentation pivots on the principle of building policy-driven virtual storage repositories that utilize a policy-driven virtual file system that can dynamically expand and shrink on-the-fly without impacting the access to data. Key issues will include:
· New expandable storage infrastructure
· Sustaining access, security, scalability and flexibility
· Practical implementation
12:00 - 12:30 Panel
Moderator: Clod Barrera, Director of Systems Strategy, Storage Systems Division, IBM
SESSION 6- Track B: INNOVATIONS AND BUSINESS TRACK
8:30 - 12:00 Presentations
Integrated TCP/IP SAN Solution
Beau Vrolyk, President CEO, 3Ware
User:
This presentation will provide a complete look at the pain experienced in today's real-world storage environment. The presentation will also cover how the problem was solved utilizing the cutting edge gigabit Ethernet storage solution. Schematic diagrams will explain in detail how GbE solutions work in the Enterprise.
Key issues will include:
· Why isn't anybody offering storage over TCP/IP today?
· The strategy for integrating storage into your existing infrastructure and investments
· Standards, interoperability issues, and the impact of future technologies such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet capacity on storage solutions and iSCSI.
Appliance Aggregation: Above and Beyond Virtualization
Joan Wrabetz, President and CEO, Tricord
Partner:
The introduction of aggregation software technology has given rise to a new class of server appliances that eliminate many of the problems inherent in data management. Aggregating multiple appliances into a single cluster provides the traditional benefits of network attached storage, while taking scalability, availability, ease of use and cost of ownership to unprecedented levels. This presentation will explore the impact of aggregation, including:
· The role of aggregation in data management
· Aggregation vs. virtualization and the myths of centralization
· Distributed file systems - the key to aggregation in NAS, Web Serving and beyond
File System for Next Generation Data Centers
Cliff Miller, President and CEO, Mountain View Data
Rumi Zahir, Principal engineer, Intel Labs
Data centers at storage service providers and within the motion picture industry will involve 10,000's of clients, 1000's of storage devices, petabyte size disk storage and throughput of 100's of gigabytes per second. This paper will present an advanced storage and file system architecture, "Lustre", pioneered with the Carnegie Mellon University, that is expected to support such clusters. Work in progress supporting "Lustre" will be described:
· Management of the devices
· Security layer
· Advanced facilities to offload servers
Networking Disk Drives- A New Approach to Networked Storage
Ilya Gertner, President and CEO, Network Disk
Partner:
Abundance of peripheral storage devices for PCs have created many new opportunities for data centers that so far have been unrealized. In this talk we describe software environment that allows to network and deploy those peripherals in a large data center. Specifically:
· Recent Development in Storage Peripherals
· Software architecture
· Applications
Integrating Multiple SAN Management Applications into One
Ted Chen, Executive Vice President, Prisa Networks
Partner:
A diversity of SAN management applications are available. They include solutions for backup, shared resource management, shared file systems, storage virtualization, network management, and physical storage management. Although these applications provide great benefits, too many disparate applications introduces another form of complexity. How can we improve, for the end-customer, the integration of multiple applications from different suppliers ? This presentation will explore that question and will draw from real implementations to portray approaches. Topics that will be presented include:
· The Web-Enabled Browser as an Application Integration Enabler
· The integration-enabling role of SAN Network Management
· SAN management APIs
Approaches to Storage Virtualization
Vicom
This presentation will focus on how Storage Virtualization, the second generation of SAN technology, can turn storage into a "utility." The functionalities of Storage Virtualization and different approaches to achieving Storage Virtualization will be discussed. The most effective way of achieving Storage Virtualization will be proposed. Key issues will include:
· Requirements that storage systems must meet in order to evolve storage into a utility
· Functionalities of Storage Virtualization
· Three approaches to Storage Virtualization
· The most effective way to achieve Storage Virtualization
12:00 - 1:00 pm Panel
Moderator:
1:00 pm ADJOURN |
