SNW Spring 2013
 

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MONDAY, APRIL 1
2:00 pm - 5:00 pmRegistration Open

TUESDAY, APRIL 2: CLOUDS AND THE DATA CENTER OF THE FUTURE
7:00 am - 6:30 pmRegistration Open
7:00 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 am - 8:45 amWelcome and Opening Remarks
John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise & Computerworld
Wayne Adams, Chairman, Board of Directors, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
8:45 am - 9:30 amWhy Aggressive Transformation with Clouds is Enabling the Future for Orlando Health
Brian Comp, PMP, Chief Technology Officer, Information Services, Orlando Health
9:30 am - 10:00 amArchitecting the Data Center of the Future
Michael Kimble, Director, Global Server Solutions Marketing, Dell
10:00 am - 10:30 amNetworking Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amSNIA Certification and Qualification Preparation Session
10:30 am - 12:00 pmConsumerization's Impact on Infrastructure TrackPrivate/Hybrid Clouds TrackCloud Infrastructure and Security TrackData Center Networking TrackVirtualization Track
10:30 am - 11:10 amIndustry Perspective: Cloud Content Collaboration - Are Your Policies Restricting Innovation?
Abhay Rajaram, Vice President, Customer Success, YouSendIt
Analyst Perspective: The Journey to the Hybrid Cloud: Lessons Learned from Global 2000 Organizations
Ken Male, Executive Vice Chairman and Founder, TheInfoPro
Legal Perspective: Cloud Computing Contracts and Risks
Milton L. Petersen, Attorney, HunterMaclean
SNIA Tutorial: Overview of Data Center Networks
Dr. Joseph White, Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks
Solution Spotlight: Be a Virtualization Hero: Remove the Obstacles and Accelerate the Benefits
Kenneth Howell, Storage Solutions Architect, HP Storage Division
11:20 am - 12:00 pmAnalyst Perspective: The Impact of Consumerization File Sharing Strategies
Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Industry Perspective: A Case Study in Virtual Private Cloud
Gerry Miller, Founder & Chief Technologist, Cloudticity
User Case Study: Cloud Computing: Panacea or Pandora?
David Rettig, Manager of Information Systems Strategic Planning, IMMI
SNIA Tutorial: How VN2VN Will Help Accelerate Adoption of FCoE
David Fair, SNIA-ESF Board of Directors, Intel
Dr. Joseph White, Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks
SNIA Tutorial: Intelligent Architecture for Application Recovery
Andreas Schwegmann, Architect, HP
12:00 pm - 2:00 pmLunch with Discussion Tables
2:10 pm - 3:40 pmSNIA Certification and Qualification Preparation Session
2:10 pm - 3:40 pmConsumerization's Impact on Infrastructure TrackPrivate/Hybrid Clouds TrackCloud Infrastructure and Security TrackData Center Networking TrackVirtualization Track
2:10 pm - 2:50 pmSNIA Tutorial: Consumerization of Trusted Computing
Dr. Michael Willett, Storage Security Strategist, Samsung
Solution Spotlight: How to Reduce Storage Expenses and Gain Flexibility Using the Public Cloud
Glenn Ferguson, Global Manager, Solution Engineering, HP Cloud Services
Analyst Perspective: Cloud Workshop, Part 1: Understanding the True Cost of Your Cloud Initiatives
Randy Perry, Vice President, Business Value Consulting, IDC
Joe Pucciarelli, Vice President & IT Executive Advisor, IDC
Analyst Perspective: Test Lab Report - 16Gb Fibre Channel Performance and Recommendations
Dennis Martin, Founder and President, Demartek
User Case Study: From Early Adopter to Enterprise Private Cloud: One Company’s Virtualization Evolution
Ken Peck, Director of IT, Office of the CTO, DaVita
3:00 pm - 3:40 pmIndustry Perspective: How to Cut VDI Storage Costs and Optimize Performance
Leo Reiter, CTO, Virtual Bridges
SNIA Tutorial: Deploying Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Storage
Marty Stogsdill, Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle Corporation

Analyst Perspective: Cloud Workshop, Part 2: Understanding the True Cost of Your Cloud Initiatives
Randy Perry, Vice President, Business Value Consulting, IDC
Joe Pucciarelli, Vice President & IT Executive Advisor, IDC
User Case Study: Storage Performance - GoDaddy Case Study of How They Test New NAS Technologies
Julia Palmer, Storage and Data Protection Manager, GoDaddy.com
Justin Richardson, Senior Storage Engineer, GoDaddy.com
Industry Perspective: Application Virtualization - Picking Up Where Server Virtualization Leaves Off
Don Boxley, Co-Founder and CEO, DH2i
3:40 pm - 4:10 pmNetworking Break
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmSNIA Certification and Qualification Preparation Session
4:10 pm - 5:40 pmConsumerization's Impact on Infrastructure TrackPrivate/Hybrid Clouds TrackCloud Infrastructure and Security TrackData Center Networking TrackVirtualization Track
4:10 pm - 4:50 pmUser Case Study: The Case for IT Consumerization: Fostering Collaboration and Driving Down IT Costs
Cliff Dixon, VP of IT, Quality Distribution
Industry Perspective: Hybrid Clouds in the Data Center - The End State
Michael Elliott, Enterprise Cloud Evangelist, Dell
User Case Study: Is Your Data Safe in the Cloud?
Mitch Jaffe, Director of Infrastructure, Tyco Fire Protection Products
Solution Spotlight: Keys to Infrastructure Consolidation and Improved End-User Performance
Chris Pinckney, Director, Global Customer Programs, Riverbed
User Case Study: EMR Data Center Implementation
Patrick Carnathan, Senior Systems Administrator, Technology MD
5:00 pm - 5:40 pmAnalyst Perspective: The Impact of Consumerization File Sharing Strategies
Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
SNIA Tutorial: Massively Scalable File Storage
Philippe Nicolas, Director of Product Strategy, Scality
Legal Perspective: Cloud Computing Contracts and Risks
Milton L. Petersen, Attorney, HunterMaclean
Analyst Perspective: Next Generation Storage Networking for Next Generation Data Centers
Dennis Martin, Founder and President, Demartek
Analyst Perspective: The Storage Hypervisor: Myth or Reality? - A Panel Discussion
Mark Davis, VP of Storage, VMware
Claus Mikkelsen, Chief Scientist, Hitachi Data Systems
Moderator: Mark Peters, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)
Ron Riffe, Business Line Manager, Storage Software, IBM
George Teixeira, President and CEO, DataCore
5:40 pm - 6:40 pmWelcome Reception in the Expo Hall
6:45 pm - 8:15 pmMoonlight Madness Labs: Hands-On Lab -- Session 1

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3: BIG DATA, MOBILITY AND THE FUTURE OF DATA MANAGEMENT
7:30 am - 7:00 pmRegistration Open
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 am - 8:45 amWelcome and Opening Remarks
John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise & Computerworld
8:45 am - 9:30 amData Transformation: Changing the Culture One Byte at a Time
Mike Giles, CIO, Express Energy Services Operating, L.P.
9:30 am - 10:00 amThe Future of Big Data in the Enterprise – A Model for Maximizing Value and ROI
Jean-Pierre Dijcks, Senior Principal Product Manager, Big Data, Oracle
10:00 am - 10:30 amNetworking Break in the Expo Hall
10:30 am - 12:00 pmHands-On Lab -- Session 2
10:30 am - 12:00 pmSNIA Certification and Qualification Preparation Session
10:30 am - 12:00 pmBig Data Analytics and Intelligence TrackBig Data Infrastructure TrackThe Mobile Enterprise TrackData Management and Deduplication TrackObject Storage Track
10:30 am - 11:10 amSNIA Tutorial: Introduction to Analytics and Big Data - Hadoop
Rob Peglar, CTO, Americas, EMC Isilon
Analyst Perspective: Big Data - The Infrastructure Disruption
Ashish Nadkarni, Research Director, IDC
SNIA Tutorial: Securing File Data in a Distributed or Mobile World
Chris Winter, Director, Product Management, SafeNet
Analyst Perspective: Increase Your Return on Innovation (The New ROI) With Data Management and Dedupe
Greg Schulz, Senior Advisor, The Server and StorageIO Group
SNIA Tutorial: Object Storage Technology
Dr. Brent Welch, Chief Technology Officer, Panasas
11:20 am - 12:00 pmSNIA Tutorial: Big Data Storage Options for Hadoop
Samuel A. Fineberg Ph.D., Distinguished Technologist HP Storage Chief Technologist Office, Hewlett-Packard Company
SNIA Tutorial: Protecting Data in the "Big Data" World
Thomas Rivera, Senior Technical Associate, File, Content & Cloud Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems; Co-Chair, SNIA-Data Protection & Capacity Optimization (DPCO) Committee
Analyst Perspective: Can I Take That To Go Please?
Benjamin Woo, Managing Director, Neuralytix, Inc.
User Case Study: Information Security Risk Assessments for Compliance and Beyond
Dawn Romano, Information Security Program Leader, Christiana Care Health System
User Case Study: Overcoming Object Storage Integration Challenges
Justin Stottlemyer, Fellow, Storage Architecture, Shutterfly
12:00 pm - 4:10 pmExpo Open
12:00 pm - 1:30 pmLunch in the Expo
2:10 pm - 3:45 pmHands-On Lab -- Session 3
2:10 pm - 3:40 pmSNIA Certification and Qualification Preparation Session
2:10 pm - 3:40 pmBig Data Analytics and Intelligence TrackBig Data Infrastructure TrackThe Mobile Enterprise TrackData Management and Deduplication TrackObject Storage Track
2:10 pm - 2:50 pmAnalyst Perspective: Big Data - What It Means for Legal and Risk Management
Alon Israely, Co-Founder, Business Intelligence Associates
SNIA Tutorial: Combining SNIA Cloud, Tape and Container Format Technologies for the Long Term Retention of Big Data
Roger Cummings, Principal, Antesignanus
Co-author: Simona Rabinovici-Cohen, Researcher, IBM
User Case Study: Corporate Liable Hybrid BYOD Enables User Flexibility & Maintains Data Visibility
Mike Giles, CIO, Express Energy Services Operating, L.P.
User Case Study: A Scalable Video Surveillance System with Always-on Availability - A Case Study by NYS Courts
Sheng Guo, CTO, New York State Courts
Analyst Perspective: The Objective of Object Storage
Benjamin Woo, Managing Director, Neuralytix, Inc.
3:00 pm - 3:40 pmUser Case Study: Turning Data into Intelligence
Dr. Khalid Moidu, CIO, Family Physicians Group
Industry Perspective: Big Data in the Enterprise: End-to-End Architectures to Use ALL Your Data
Dave "Sunny" Sundstrom, Principal Product Director, Oracle
Industry Perspective: BYOD Transformation
Joseph Leonard, Director, Secure Networks, Presidio
SNIA Tutorial: Advanced Data Reduction Concepts
Thomas Rivera, Senior Technical Associate, File, Content & Cloud Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems; Co-Chair, SNIA-Data Protection & Capacity Optimization (DPCO) Committee
User Case Study: Overcoming Object Storage Integration Challenges
Justin Stottlemyer, Fellow, Storage Architecture, Shutterfly
3:40 pm - 4:10 pmNetworking Break in the Expo Hall
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmSNIA Certification and Qualification Preparation Session
4:10 pm - 5:40 pmBig Data Analytics and Intelligence TrackBig Data Infrastructure TrackThe Mobile Enterprise TrackData Management and Deduplication TrackObject Storage Track
4:10 pm - 4:50 pmUser Case Study: The Intelligence Factor: Establishing an Environment for Big Data and BI
Ken Peck, Director of IT, Office of the CTO, DaVita
Analyst Perspective: Big Data: The Storage Disruption
Laura DuBois, Program VP, Storage, IDC
Dan Iacono, Research Director, IDC
Ashish Nadkarni, Research Director, IDC
Eric Sheppard, Research Director, Storage, IDC
SNIA Tutorial: Fibre Channel Technologies Applied to Mobility and Cloud
Jack Rondoni, Senior Director, Data Center SANs, Brocade
Industry Perspective: Is Your Data Center Ready for Big Data? How Deduplication Technology Can Help
Stephen Johnson, Worldwide Product Marketing, HP Storage Division
Industry Perspective: Object Storage Technology: The Unfolding Landscape
Tad Hunt, CTO, Exablox
5:00 pm - 5:40 pmSNIA Tutorial: Big Data Storage Options for Hadoop
Samuel A. Fineberg Ph.D., Distinguished Technologist HP Storage Chief Technologist Office, Hewlett-Packard Company
User Case Study: Delivering Data’s Value with Solid State Storage and Advanced BI
David Bratt, Director, Technology Services, Miami Children's Hospital
Industry Perspective: Managed Mobile Services: The Key to BYOD
Dave Eichorn, Global Practice Head, Data Center, Zensar Technologies
Analyst Perspective: Metrics that Matter - Meritage of Data Management and Data Protection
Greg Schulz, Senior Advisor, The Server and StorageIO Group
SNIA Tutorial: Object Storage Systems: The Underpinning of Cloud and Big Data Initiatives
Mark O'Connell, EMC Atmos CTO, EMC
5:40 pm - 7:10 pmUltimate 80’s Night Reception in the Expo and Passport Drawing

THURSDAY, APRIL 4: SOLID STATE, CLOUD STORAGE AND STORAGE INNOVATION
8:00 am - 4:30 pmRegistration Open
8:00 am - 9:00 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am"Data and Storage and Clouds, Oh My …": The Burning Questions Workshop (with Answers)
John Gallant, Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise & Computerworld
10:00 am - 10:30 amNetworking Break in the Expo Hall
10:30 am - 12:00 pmHands-On Lab -- Session 4
10:30 am - 12:00 pmSNIA Certification and Qualification Preparation Session
10:30 am - 12:00 pmSolid State TrackCloud Storage TrackBusiness Continuity / Disaster Recovery TrackBackup and Archiving TrackData Protection and Security Track
10:30 am - 11:10 amSolution Spotlight: Exploiting Flash to End Storage Bottlenecks
James Bahn, Senior Director of Product Management, Astute
Industry Perspective: Remote Data Migration, Moving Data Centers to the Cloud
David Clark, Director of Product Marketing, QLogic
Analyst Perspective: Time to Rethink Data Protection Including BC and DR
Greg Schulz, Senior Advisor, The Server and StorageIO Group
SNIA Tutorial: Digital Data Archive and Preservation in the Cloud - What To Do and What Not To Do
Chad Thibodeau, Director of Product Management and Alliances, Cleversafe, Inc.
Sebastian Zangaro, R&D Architect - Office of Strategy & Technology, Brazil R&D, Hewlett-Packard
Legal Perspective: Working With Lawyers On Information Security
Kirk Nahra, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP
11:20 am - 12:00 pmAnalyst Perspective: Real-Time Data Efficiency with SSD
Dan Iacono, Research Director, IDC
Industry Perspective: How to Use Cloud Storage to Deliver Customer Satisfaction
Scott Wells, Senior Product Manager, Limelight Networks
Industry Perspective: Manage and Recover Data and Applications with Hybrid Cloud: When Minutes Matter Most
Larry Lang, CEO, Quorum
Industry Perspective: Archiving in the Cloud - Considerations and Use Cases
Christine Rogers, Principal Product Manager, Oracle
SNIA Tutorial: The Changing Role of Data Protection in a Virtualized World
Gene Nagle, VP, Technical Services, BridgeSTOR, LLC; Co-Chair, SNIA-Data Protection & Capacity Optimization (DPCO) Committee
Thomas Rivera, Senior Technical Associate, File, Content & Cloud Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems; Co-Chair, SNIA-Data Protection & Capacity Optimization (DPCO) Committee
12:00 pm - 1:30 pmLunch (Expo Hall Open 11:30 am - 2:00 pm)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm "Ask the Experts" Center in the Expo Hall
1:30 pm - 3:00 pmHands-On Lab -- Session 5
1:30 pm - 3:00 pmSNIA Certification and Qualification Preparation Session
1:30 pm - 3:00 pmSolid State TrackCloud Storage TrackBusiness Continuity / Disaster Recovery TrackBackup and Archiving TrackData Protection and Security Track
1:30 pm - 2:10 pmSNIA Tutorial: Realities of Solid State Storage
Esther Spanjer, Director, SSD Technical Marketing, SMART Modular
User Case Study: How Cloud Storage Made Our IT Organization More Flexible
Justin Simmons, Associate Director of Technology Services, Sundance Institute
Analyst Perspective: New Approaches to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Ashish Nadkarni, Research Director, IDC
Solution Spotlight: Storage Innovation at the Core of the Enterprise
Rob Klusman, Senior Director, Client Infrastructure Solutions - Storage, Oracle
User Case Study: To Encrypt or Not To Encrypt-The Millions of Dollars Question
Tracey Longstreet, Information Security Analyst, Progressive Insurance Company
2:20 pm - 3:00 pmIndustry Perspective: Understanding the Ins and Outs of Databases and Flash Technologies
Gurmeet Goindi, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation
SNIA Tutorial: The Business Case for the Cloud
Alex McDonald, Office of the CTO, NetApp, Inc.
User Case Study: Transforming IT Infrastructure for Growth at a Small, Fast-Moving Company
Shane McCombs, CIO, Enzymedica
Analyst Perspective: IT and Economics of Archiving Implementation
Randy Kerns, Senior Strategist, Evaluator Group
Solution Spotlight: Backup and Recovery – The Cost vs. Risk Conundrum
Peter Waugh, Director of Storage Marketing, Dell
3:00 pm - 4:00 pmDessert Reception and Passport Prize Giveaways in the Expo
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmSolid State TrackCloud Storage TrackBusiness Continuity / Disaster Recovery TrackBackup and Archiving TrackData Protection and Security Track
4:00 pm - 4:40 pmUser Case Study: Delivering Data’s Value with Solid State Storage and Advanced BI
David Bratt, Director, Technology Services, Miami Children's Hospital
Analyst Perspective: QoS: Provisioning Performance in Multi-Tenant Cloud Storage – A Panel Discussion
Moderator: Alea Fairchild, Director, The Constantia Institute bvba
Jay Prassl, VP of Marketing, SolidFire Inc.
Matthew Wallace, Director of Product Development, ViaWest
User Case Study: How the University of Central Florida's Honors College Found a Creative Solution for Disaster Recovery
Michael Callahan, Director of IT, The Burnett Honors College, University of Central Florida
Industry Perspective: Best Practices in the Management of Unstructured Data – A Panel Discussion
David Cerf, EVP, Business & Corporate Development, Crossroads
Floyd Christofferson, Product Marketing Director, SGI
Russ Kennedy, Vice President of Product Strategy, Marketing and Customer Solutions, Cleversafe
Mark Seamans, Executive Vice President and CTO, FileTek
Molly Rector, Executive Vice President of Product Management and Worldwide Marketing, Spectra Logic
Industry Perspective: The Evolution of Data Protection to Information Management in the Age of Big Data
Eric Golin, CTO, Carbonite
4:50 pm - 5:30 pm(Data Center Networking) Industry Perspective: FCIA Fibre Channel - Live Long and Prosper
Mark Jones, FCIA Vice Chairman and Technical Marketing Director, Emulex Corporation
Industry Perspective: Beating Storage Bottlenecks in the Cloud
Micheal Higgins, Chief Enterprise Solutions Officer, CloudSigma
Industry Perspective: Disaster Recovery: Can You Walk the Walk?
Scott Crenshaw, SVP Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer, Acronis
User Case Study: Digital Preservation of World Heritage Sites Forever
Tom Greaves, Executive Director, CyArk
Industry Perspective: Conducting a Privacy Risk Assessment: A Practical Guide to the Performance, Evaluation and Response
Eric Dieterich, Partner, Sunera LLC