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Presentations will be posted throughout the week of SNW Spring 2011, as they become available. Please note that some presentations may not be posted at the request of the speaker, per their corporate policy.

Monday, April 4, 2011
	MORNING TRACK SESSIONS
8:45 am - 9:30 am	Solid State Storage Track	Cloud Storage Track	Storage Management Track	The Converged Network Track	Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Track	Data Security Track
	Analyst Perspective: Deep Dive into Solid State Storage - Technologies and Architectures Dennis Martin, President, Demartek	Industry Perspective: Cloud Storage - What is it? A Service Provider’s Perspective Todd Loeppke, Technical Vice President - Storage Architecture - Office of CTO, Savvis	SNIA Tutorial: Writing Storage RFPs in 2011 John Webster, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group	Industry Perspective: All Roads Lead to Convergence Greg Scherer, Vice President of Server and Storage Strategy, Broadcom Corp.	Industry Perspective: The SAN, Replication and DR for VDI Environments Michael Fox, Senior Solutions Architect, Virtualization, EMC Consulting	SNIA Tutorial: Storage Security Tutorial with a Focus on Cloud Storage Gordon Arnold, Senior Technical Staff, IBM
9:40 am - 10:25 am	Solid State Storage Track	Cloud Storage Track	Storage Management Track	The Converged Network Track	Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Track	Data Security Track
	SNIA Tutorial: The Benefits of Solid State in Enterprise Storage Systems David Dale, Director Industry Standards, NetApp	Industry Perspective: Learning from the Cloud Geoff Hough, Director, Strategy and Planning - Office of the CTO, HP StorageWorks	User Case Study: Creating High Density, Energy Efficient Data Centers for Today's Virtualized Environments Lance King, Systems Services Manager, O.C. Tanner Company	Industry Perspective: Demystifying Network and I/O Convergence: What You Need to Know and Why? Simon Gordon, Senior Product Line Manager, Juniper Networks	VDI Solution Spotlight: Achieving Storage Efficiency and Scalability in Virtual Desktop Environment Will Urban, Technical Marketing Engineer, Dell	SNIA Tutorial: Securing the Cloud - Using Encryption and Key Management to Solve Today's Cloud Security Challenges Steve Pate, CTO, High Cloud Security Tushar Tambay, Architect, High Cloud Security
10:35 am - 11:20 am	Solid State Storage Track	Cloud Storage Track	Storage Management Track	The Converged Network Track	Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Track	Data Security Track
	SNIA Tutorial: SNIA Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification Easen Ho, CTO, Calypso Systems, Inc.	User Case Study: Intel's Cloud Computing and Virtualization Journey Ajay Chandramouly, Director, Intel IT, Intel Corporation	Industry Perspective: Lean Times Call For Thin Storage Michael Haag, Sr. Strategic Alliance Manager, HP StorageWorks	Analyst Perspective: Unified Storage Networking Dennis Martin, President, Demartek	User Case Study: Leveraging Existing Investment in Storage to Expand to Virtual Desktops Sean Larson, Network Administrator, Sycamore Community Schools	Industry Perspective: Solid-State Drives with Self-Encryption: An Unbeatable Combination Dr. Michael Willett, Storage Security Strategist, Samsung
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	In Pursuit of Innovation Steve Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple Computer, and Chief Scientist, Fusion-io
	AFTERNOON TRACK SESSIONS
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm	Deduplication Track	Cloud Storage Track	Data Center Track	The Converged Network Track	Virtualization Track	Data Security Track
	SNIA Tutorial: Advanced Deduplication Concepts Larry Freeman, Senior Technologist, NetApp Tom Pearce, Principal Consultant, Four-Colour IT Solutions	SNIA Tutorial: Tiered File System without Tiers Laura Shepard, Senior Product Manager, Isilon	Data Center Solution Spotlight: New Era of Storage Efficiency Eric Collins, Senior System Architect , IBM	SNIA Tutorial: Design and Implementations of FCoE for the DataCenter Michael Frase, Distinguished Support Engineer, Cisco Systems	SNIA Tutorial: PCI Express Impact on Storage Architectures and Future Data Centers Ron Emerick, IO Architect, Oracle Corporation	SNIA Tutorial: Legal Issues Relevant to Storage David Stevens, Team Lead, Enterprise Data Management, Carnegie Mellon University
1:55 pm - 2:40 pm	Deduplication Track	Cloud Storage Track	Data Center Track	The Converged Network Track	Virtualization Track	Data Security Track
	Industry Perspective: Best Practices: Protecting, Replicating and Deduplicating Mission-Critical Databases Ashish Ray, Senior Director, Oracle Corporation	Industry Perspective: Why Cloud is Another Tier of Storage Tom Trela, Senior Product Manager, HDS Slides not published at the request of the speaker.	SNIA Tutorial: Data Center Storage ... Spend Less, Deliver More. Hubbert Smith, Director Product Management, LSI Corporation	Industry Perspective: Fibre Channel Driving Storage Innovation, Speed and Convergence Tom Hammond-Doel, FCIA Vice-Chairman, FCIA	SNIA Tutorial: Virtualization I - Who, What, Why, When? Rob Peglar, Senior Fellow, Xiotech	SNIA Tutorial: Self-Encrypting Drives: Simple, Yet Powerful Dr. Michael Willett, Storage Security Strategist, Samsung
2:50 pm - 3:35 pm	Deduplication Track	Cloud Storage Track	Data Center Track	The Converged Network Track	Virtualization Track	Data Security Track
	Industry Perspective: Reduced Complexity with Next-Generation Deduplication Innovation Sean Kinney, Director, HP Storage	Industry Perspective: Cloudy With a Chance of Data Reduction: How Data Reduction Technologies Impact the Cloud Mark Himelstein, Chief Technical Officer, Quantum Corporation Slides not published at the request of the speaker.	User Case Study: High Performance Data Management for Animation Production Mike Cutler, Dreamworks Animation	SNIA Tutorial: Data Center Evolution and Network Convergence Dr. Joseph White, Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks	SNIA Tutorial: Virtualization II - Effective Use of Virtualization Rob Peglar, Senior Fellow, Xiotech	SNIA Tutorial: SNIA Storage Security Best Practices Gordon Arnold, Senior Technical Staff, IBM
4:05 pm - 4:50 pm	Deduplication Track	Cloud Storage Track	Data Center Track	Storage Management Track	Virtualization Track	Solid State Storage Track
	User Case Study: Integrating a Multi-tiered Deduplication Approach to Simplify Enterprise-wide Backup Travis Melo, IT Manager, EMC	Industry Perspective: The End of Storage as You Know It Craig Nunes, Director, Storage Marketing, HP Storage	SNIA Tutorial: Scale and Availability Considerations for Cluster File Systems David Noy, Director, Product Management, Storage Foundation, Symantec Corporation	Storage Management Solution Spotlight: SAN Performance & Availability Optimization: A Financial Services Customer Perspective William "Skip" Bacon, CTO, Virtual Instruments	User Case Study: A Case Study in Virtualization from the Perspective of the Business Omer Siddiqui, CIO, DC Water	Solution Spotlight: Enterprise Solid State Storage: Enabling Scalable and Sustainable Datacenters Thomas Isakovich, CEO and Founder, Nimbus Data Systems, Inc.
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Nurturing a Culture of Innovation Tom Kelley, General Manager, IDEO Slides not published at the request of the speaker.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011
8:15 am - 9:15 am	Versatile IT at HP Randy Mott, Executive Vice President and CIO, HP Slides not published at the request of the speaker.
9:15 am - 9:45 am	Entering the Age of Information Ubiquity Jack Domme, Chief Executive Officer, Hitachi Data Systems Slides not published at the request of the speaker.
9:45 am - 10:15 am	Leveraging Innovation to Wrap Your Arms Around Big Data Jay Kerley, Corporate Vice President and Deputy CIO, Applied Materials
	MORNING TRACK SESSIONS
10:45 am - 11:30 am	Data Protection Track	Cloud Storage Track	Energy Efficiency Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track	Solid State Storage Track
	SNIA Tutorial: Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies Jason Iehl, Senior Solutions Architect, Data Protection, NetApp	Cloud Storage Solution Spotlight: Pump Solutions Group Case Study: Cloud Storage Acceleration Jeff Rountree, Global Network Manager, Pump Solutions Group (PSG)	Industry Perspective: The SNIA Emerald: a Tool for Measuring and Reporting Storage System Energy Efficiency Tom Hammond-Doel, GSI Board Member, Green Storage Initiative of the SNIA	Analyst Perspective: Big Data: How New Analytics Systems will Impact Storage John Webster, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group	Analyst Perspective: I/O Virtualization - The Next Virtualization Frontier Dennis Martin, President, Demartek	SNIA Tutorial: Are SSDs Ready for Enterprise Storage Systems? Anil Vasudeva, President & Chief Analyst, IMEX Research
11:40 am - 12:25 pm	Data Protection Track	Cloud Storage Track	Energy Efficiency Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track	Solid State Storage Track
	SNIA Tutorial: Cryptography Deciphered Michael Willett, Storage Security Strategist, Samsung	Industry Perspective: Cloud Computing & The Enterprise Kevin Leahy, Director, Cloud Strategy, Global Technology Service , IBM Corporation	SNIA Tutorial: Green Storage - the Big Picture SW Worth, Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft	SNIA Tutorial: Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond Michael Fishman, CTO, Unified Storage Division, EMC Corporation	User Case Study: Creating the Agile Data Center with Database Virtualization Richard Rothschild, Senior Director, IT, TiVo	Solid State Storage Solution Spotlight: Storage Performance Challenges and How to Stop Flying Blind in NAS Storage Cloud Julia Palmer, Manager of Storage Engineering, Go Daddy
	AFTERNOON TRACK SESSIONS
2:10 pm - 2:55 pm	Data Protection Track	Cloud Storage Track	Energy Efficiency Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track	Solid State Storage Track
	SNIA Tutorial: File System for Data Protection Windsor Hsu, CTO, Data Domain, Backup Recovery Systems Division, EMC	Analyst Perspective: Panel: Is Cloud Storage Ready for the Enterprise? Moderated by: Arun Taneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group	User Case Study: Energy-Efficient Storage Rob Di Stefano, IT Systems Director, Earth Rangers John Pepelnak, Senior Manager, Business Development and Sustainability, Earth Rangers	Data Management Solution Spotlight: Turnkey Storage to Accelerate Exchange 2010 Deployments Dean Steadman, Worldwide Product Manager, HP	SNIA Tutorial: Virtualization I - Who, What, Why, When? Rob Peglar, Senior Fellow, Xiotech	Analyst Perspective: Panel: Truth or Fiction? Demystifying Solid-State Storage "Specsmanship" Moderated by: George Crump, Senior Analyst, Storage Switzerland
3:05 pm - 3:50 pm	Backup and Archiving Track	Cloud Storage Track	Energy Efficiency Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track	Solid State Storage Track
	Data Protection Solution Spotlight: Simplify Your Data Protection Strategies: Best Practices for Online Data Backup & Recovery Souvik Choudhury, Senior Director of Product Management, SunGard	SNIA Tutorial: Interoperable Cloud Storage with the CDMI Standard Mark Carlson, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation Marty Stogsdill, Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle Corporation	SNIA Tutorial: Green Storage Technologies, CAPEX and OPEX Dr. Alan Yoder, Office of the CTO, NetApp	Industry Perspective: Proactive Data Management for eDiscovery Simon Taylor, Senior Director - Information Management, CommVault	User Case Study: Transforming I/T to Lower Energy Use and Simplify Management Gregory Johnson, CTO, VCU Health System	SNIA Tutorial: Leveraging Flash Memory in Enterprise Storage Matt Kixmoeller, Vice President, Products, Pure Storage Inc.
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Smarter Computing For a Smarter Planet -- Managing the Explosion of Data Dr. Krishna Nathan, Vice President, Storage Systems Development, IBM
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Bridging the Divide Between Innovation and Standardization Dave Smoley, Senior Vice President and CIO, Flextronics International

Wednesday, April 6, 2011
8:15 am - 9:00 am	From Cloud Computing to Climate Control: The Future(s) of Agile Infrastructure Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business
9:00 am - 9:30 am	The Impact of Cloud and Data-centric Computing on Tomorrow’s Storage Architectures David Scott, Senior Vice President and General Manager, HP StorageWorks
10:00 am - 10:30 am	How to Manage Data Growth for Greater Efficiency, Agility and Innovation Brett Roscoe, Executive Director of Marketing, Enterprise Storage, Dell
	MORNING TRACK SESSIONS
10:45 am - 11:30 am	Backup and Archiving Track	Cloud Computing Track	Data Center Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track	Professional Development Track
	Industry Perspective: Virtualization and Cloud Computing - New Options for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Andi Mann, Vice President of Product Marketing, CA Technologies	Analyst Perspective: Panel: Data Center Transformation - The Changing Roles of the People and Technology Moderated by: Camberley Bates, Managing Director, Evaluator Group, Inc.	User Case Study: Solving Infrastructure Complexities with the Flexibility of a Converged Network Jason Beckham, Vice President Information Technology, Payformance Corporation	Industry Perspective: Taming the Information Explosion William Tolson, Director of Legal & Regulatory Solutions Marketing, Iron Mountain	SNIA Tutorial: Three Virtualization Management Myths Busted Rich Corley, CTO, Storage Management Solutions Group, NetApp	User Case Study: Stress is IT !!! William Cross, CIO, Seminole Electric
11:40 am - 12:25 pm	Backup and Archiving Track	Cloud Computing Track	Data Center Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track	Professional Development Track
	User Case Study: Iaas - A Solution for Rural Markets Michael Butler, President, Digital Health Exchange	Industry Perspective: Stepping Stones to the Cloud: Building a Shared IT Infrastructure Val Bercovici, Office of the CTO, Cloud Czar, NetApp	Industry Perspective: Unified Fabric Anywhere - Getting from Here to There J Metz, Product Manager, FCoE, Cisco	Data Management Solution Spotlight: Converged Networks: Here Today – Here to Stay Moderators: David Vellante, CEO and Founder, The Wikibon Project Stu Miniman, Senior Analyst, The Wikibon Project	User Case Study: Unplanned Disaster Leads to Storage Freedom David Davies, CIO, Flight Options	SNIA Tutorial: Strategies to Success: Now What? David Deming, Vice President Marketing and Product Development, Solution Technology
	AFTERNOON TRACK SESSIONS
2:10 pm - 2:55 pm	Backup and Archiving Track	Cloud Computing Track	Data Center Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track	Professional Development Track
	User Case Study Disaster Recovery Metrics: Beyond RTO and RPO J Wolfgang Goerlich, Network Operations and Security Manager, Munder Capital Management Slides not published at the request of the speaker.	Cloud Computing Solution Spotlight: Building Private Cloud Architectures Chandra Rangan, Sr. Director, Enterprise Marketing, Symantec	Analyst Perspective: Panel: Kick-Butt Advancements in Fibre Channel and FCoE Moderated by: David Vellante, CEO and Founder, Wikibon Project	SNIA Tutorial: Dedupe's Role in Disaster Recovery Gene Nagle, Manager, Applications Engineering, Storage Systems, Exar Corporation Thomas Rivera, Senior Technical Associate, SEPATON	Industry Perspective: RFP 2.0: How to Prepare Your IT Infrastructure for the Future Larry Freeman, Senior Technologist, NetApp	SNIA Tutorial: "Where Did I Put That?" - Helping to Better Manage Your Digital Life Rich Ramos, Consultant / Technologist, R2Tek
3:05 pm - 3:50 pm	Backup and Archiving Track	Cloud Computing Track	Data Center Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track	Professional Development Track
	SNIA Tutorial: Cloud Backup Recovery and Restore Requirements Ashar Baig, Chair, SNIA Cloud Backup Recovery and Restore (BURR) Special Interest Group (SIG); Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Asigra	SNIA Tutorial: The Role of WAN Optimization in Cloud Infrastructures Josh Tseng, Technical Director, Riverbed Technology	User Case Study: LLNL Deploys Storage-class Memory to Build Highest Performance Storage Array with Two Rack Footprint Neil Carson, CTO, Fusion-io	User Case Study: Warren Miller Entertainment Takes Storage to New Heights in Digital Video Neil Sullivan, Senior Account Manager, GW Hannaway & Associates	Virtualization Solution Spotlight: Harness the Power of VAAI with Hitachi Virtualization Claus Mikkelsen, Chief Scientist, Hitachi Data Systems Michael Heffernan, Global Product Manager, Server Virtualization, Hitachi Data Systems Jerry Sutton, Technical Analyst Storage Administration, TSYS Slides not published at the request of the speaker.	SNIA Tutorial: Leveraging Social Media in Your Organization Diana Eastty, Principal and Founder, Eastty Marketing Marty Foltyn, Vice President, Channel Chargers, LLC
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	Unlocking Corporate Productivity with Innovation Ralph Loura, CIO, The Clorox Company

Thursday, April 7, 2011
	MORNING TRACK SESSIONS
8:30 am - 9:15 am	Backup and Archiving Track	Cloud Computing Track	Data Center Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track
	Industry Perspective: Taming Explosive Data Growth with Scale-Out NAS: Practical examples from Healthcare and Life Science Pete Brey, WW Business Development Manager, Vertical Markets, HP Storageworks	User Case Study: Don't Get Lost in the Cloud: Legal Risks and Implications of Cloud Computing Milton Petersen, Partner, Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn, P.C.	User Case Study: IT Healthcare: Univita Health Prescribes Unified IT to Cure Disjointed IT Environments Darryl Meidinger, Director of Technical Service, Univita Health	Industry Perspective: From Data Protection to Information Availability Oussama El-Hilali, Vice President, Symantec Corporation	SNIA Tutorial: Understanding High Availability in the SAN Mark Fleming, Senior Software Engineer, IBM
9:25 am - 10:10 am	Backup and Archiving Track	Cloud Computing Track	Data Center Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track
	SNIA Tutorial: Trends in Application Recovery Andreas Schwegmann, Product Architect, HP	Industry Perspective: Got Automation? - Virtualization is Only the First Step Scott Burgess, Director, Office of the CTO, EMC Consulting	SNIA Tutorial: Implementing Large Scale Storage Management Infrastructures Erwin van Londen, Senior Technical Analyst, Hitachi Data Systems	Analyst Perspective: Sibling Rivalries: Integrating Data Management Technologies Randy Kerns, Senior Strategist, Evaluator Group	Analyst Perspective: Storage Capacity to Store Data; Storage Performance to Deliver Services Benjamin S. Woo, Program VP, WW Storage Systems, IDC
10:20 am - 11:05 am	Backup and Archiving Track	Cloud Computing Track	Data Center Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track
	Industry Perspective: Backup & Archiving - Tape Libraries Molly Rector, Vice President of Marketing and Product Development, Spectra Logic	Vendor Perspective: Make Your Existing File Storage Infrastructure "Cloud-Ready" Rick Gillett, VP, Data Systems Architecture, F5 Networks	User Case Study: Cheating Death (In the Datacenter): Leveraging Cloud to Extend the Life of Primary Storage Systems David Jones, IT Operations Manager, Alexza Pharmaceuticals	Industry Perspective: Information Management and Governance - Simplified June Manley, Worldwide Product Marketing Director, HP Software, HP	User Case Study: Storage Virtualization Protects "Explosive" Data for Manufacturers Chris Benco, Manager, Network Operations, Austin Powder
11:15 am - 12:00 pm	Backup and Archiving Track	Cloud Computing Track	Data Center Track	Data Management Track	Virtualization Track
	Vendor Perspective: Scale-out Data Deduplication Architecture Gideon Senderov, Director, Product Management & Technical Marketing, NEC Corporation of America	SNIA Tutorial: Introducing and Validating SNIA SSS Performance Test Suite Esther Spanjer, Director of Technical Marketing, SMART Modular	User Case Study: How Much Information? “Big Data” Research Findings for Enterprise and Consumer Information Chaitan Baru, Distinguished Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center Roger Bohn, Professor, UC San Diego James Short, Research Director, UC San Diego	Industry Perspective: Will Object Stores Dominate Storage of Unstructured Data? Robert Primmer, Senior Technologist & Senior Director Content Services, HDS	Industry Perspective: Managing VM Sprawl in the Cloud Vish Mulchand, Worldwide Director of Solutions Marketing, HP StorageWorks

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