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2007 Symposium Agenda


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Tuesday, August 7th

Time:

Speaker/Activity

8:00 - 8:45 Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 Symposium Welcome & Agenda
John Randall, Marketing Director, Nth Generation
Trillium Room
9:00 - 10:30 Executive Briefing 1
"Front Burner Issues in Enterprise Compliance & Digital Privacy"
Daniel Garrie, LegalTech: Attorney, Author & Compliance Expert
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30 Executive Briefing 2
"Email Archiving Best Practices & Worst Implementations"
Gary Bergo, Senior Storage Software Engineer, HP
11:30 - 12:15 Executive Briefing 3
"Optimizing Business & Health Outcomes to Revolutionize IT"
Lisa Dali, Business Mgr, Medical Archives Solution, HP
12:15 - 1:00 Tutorial Registration & Lunch
Sequoia Rooms E,F,G & H
1:00 - 4:00 Symposium Tutorial
"Latest Trends in Enterprise Technologies"
Dan Molina, Chief Technology Officer, Nth Generation

Enterprise Storage Update
Chet Jacobs, Senior Technologist, HP

"Stump the Experts" Technical Panel"
Dan Molina, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Engrs, Nth Generation

Wednesday, August 8th

Time:

Speaker/Activity

7:30 - 8:15 Registration & Continental Breakfast
Sequoia Rooms E,F,G & H
8:15-8:30 Symposium Welcome & Agenda
John Randall, Marketing Director, Nth Generation
8:30-9:00 Introduction & Symposium Highlights
Host Richard Baldwin, President & CEO, Nth Generation
9:00 - 9:45 Keynote 1
"Change: Friend or Foe?"
Mark Gonzalez, HP VP Enterprise Servers & Storage
9:45 - 10:30 Keynote 2
"Trends in Architecting Your Virtual Infrastructure"
Rock Regan, VMware
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30 Keynote 3
"Virtualizing an $8 Billion Enterprise: A Year in the Life of SAIC"
Bob Logan, Director Infrastructure Services, SAIC
11:30 - 12:00 Lunch buffet opens
Trillium Room Sequoia Rooms E,F,G &H
12:00-12:45 Breakout 1A
"Protecting Enterprise Information with Brocade Remote Replication"
AJ Casamento, Senior Solutioneer, Brocade & Mike Shafer, Alliance Mgr, HP
Breakout 1B
"VMware Fundamentals and Roadmap"
Matt McPhail, VMware
12:45-1:00 Break Break
1:00 - 1:45 Breakout 2A
"Enterprise Evolutions from Microsoft"
Jon Reese, PhD, Microsoft
Breakout 2B
"HP BladeSystemsDifferentiators"
Harvey Angel, HP BladeSystem Group Bus Mgr
1:45 - 2:00 Break Break
2:00 - 2:45 Breakout 3A
"Holographic Storage - From Dream to Reality"
Bill Wilson, Chief Scientist, & Liz Murphy, VP Marketing, InPhase Technologies
Breakout 3B
"Bringing it All Together: Unified Server & Storage Management"
Chet Jacobs, HP Sr. Technology Leader
2:45 - 3:00 Break Break
3:00 - 3:45 Breakout 4A
"Emerging Technologies & Virtualization Solutions for the New Datacenter"
Stuart Berman, Sr. VP & Chief Technology Officer, Emulex
Breakout 4B
"Practical Data Protection, Recovery and D/R"
David Self, InMage
3:30 Interoperability Lab Opens
3:45 - 4:00 Break Break
4:00 - 4:45 Breakout 5A
"Data Protection in 2010"
Miklos Sandorfi, Chief Technology Officer, SEPATON
Breakout 5B
"Future Directions in Server Architecture"
Afshin Abadi, Solutions Specialist, Intel
7:30 Interoperability Lab Closes

Thursday, August 9th

Time:

Speaker/Activity

7:30 - 8:15 Registration & Continental Breakfast
Sequoia Rooms E,F,G & H
8:15-8:30 Symposium Welcome & Agenda
John Randall, Marketing Director, Nth Generation
8:30-9:00 Introduction & Symposium Highlights
Host Richard Baldwin, President & CEO, Nth Generation
9:00 - 9:45 Keynote 1
"Leveraging the Network as the Platform"
Keith Barto, Sr Consulting Engr, Data Ctr Advanced Technologies, Cisco
9:45 - 10:30 Keynote 2
"Is the Future of Virtualization Green?"
Dane Smith , VMware VP Sales Americas
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30 Keynote 3
"D/R & Data Replication Shootout - Industry Leaders Face Off!"
VIP Storage Industry Panel
11:30 - 12:00 Lunch Buffet Opens
Trillium Room Sequoia Rooms E,F,G &H
12:00 - 12:45 Breakout 1A
"Virtualization: The Foundation for Service Delivery"
Paul Mantey, HP Virtualization Program Manager
Breakout 1B
Key Data Mgmt Market Trends and Solutions
Doug Hammer, CommVault Product Mktg Mgr
12:45 - 1:00 Break
1:00 - 1:45 Breakout 2A
"De-duplicate or Drown!"
Mike Sparkes, , Product Mktg Mgr, Enterprise Disk Systems, Quantum
Breakout 2B
"The Cisco Data Center: Consolidate, Virtualize & Optimize"
Keith Barto, Sr Consulting Engr - Data Center Advanced Technologies, Cisco
1:45 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 2:45 Breakout 3A
Key Management Must-Knows to Achieve Compliance
Bob Lockhart, Chief Systems Architect, NeoScale
Breakout 3B
"VMware Virtual Descktop (VDI) & Lab Mananger"
Noah Johnson, VMware
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45 Breakout 4A
"Virtualization & Disaster Recovery at No Cost"
Matt Weiner, VMware Practice Mgr. Nth Generation
Guy Hansen, Sr. Program Mgr, SDG&E
Dan Molina, CTO, Nth Generation
Breakout 4B
"An Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)"
Bob Farkaly, VP Sales, Overland Storage
3:30 Interoperability Lab opens
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45 Breakout 5A
HP EVA & XP Recent Announcements & Future Directions
Rich Colarusso, HP Americas XP Product Mgr., HP
Breakout 5B
"HP BladeSystems Differentiators"
Harvey Angel, HP BladeSystem Group Bus Mgr
7:30 Interoperability Lab closes

IT end-users should register on site at the Symposium registration desk. Please review the Symposium registration policy to ensure that you are eligible to attend.