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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: KEVIN DALY, President and CEO, Quantum/ ATL
SESSION 1- Track A: "Storage Networking- Products and Applications"
2:00- 4: 30 PRESENTATIONS
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 are 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
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
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.
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.
4:20 pm Panel:
Evolving Data Protection Strategies
Panel members include
Bill Marriner, CEO, Exabyte
- Panel Chair
Alan Welsh, CEO, Columbia
Data
Kevin Daly, President and CEO, ATL/Quantum
Tom Phillips, Senior Program manager, Microsoft
Michael Del Rosso, CTO, OTG
Software
RIck Carlson, VP Business Development and Chief
strategic Officer, Maxtor
SESSION 1- Track B: " SAN, LAN and WAN - Unification"
2:00- 5:00 pm PRESENTATIONS
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
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
CNT will discuss the
convergence of SANs, LANs and WANs in today's IT environment.
Currently, SANs, LANs and WANs all operate as individual networking
technologies, but a convergence of these three environments is
the latest challenge in meeting ever changing IT demands. This
presentation will define convergence and its drivers, describe
the key applications involved with convergence, how to leverage
a company's existing IP network, and managing data transport.
Learn how the combination of SAN, LAN and WAN environments into
one consolidated network will provide greater efficiency and utilization
of storage resources and provide scalability for future
business growth.
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
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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
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.
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
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
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 managing
storage represents a large share of the total ocost of ownership.
With new management tools, we are now able however to reduce this
cost significantly. This presentation will show how matching hardware
and software requirements to meet productivity goals, leads to
improving better overall cost/performance results. The speaker
will develop a real case example showng how TCO helped achieve
the decision for outsourcing part of the IT management. Major
topics include:
· Understanding the Technology Stack
· Matching hardware and software requirements to meet productivity
goals
· User definable/Variable TCO tool
While SANs offer tremendous benefits
to users, its inter-connected operations can leave the entire
system defenseless in the event of a disruption. Today's SANs
must provide reliable, available and proficient service all while
meeting the companies increasing needs for opera-tional efficiency,
ease and profits. This session will examine:
· Practical case studies
· The implications on the corporate objectives for SAN,
including its recovery process, revenues and trends
· The possible options and first steps in developing an
IT infrastructure
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
Invited Guest: Kirby
Wadsworth, VP Marketing, Storability
Co-Moderator: Mark Ferelli, Chief Editor, Computer Technology
Review
5:00 - 9-00 PM Reception and Technology Exhibits
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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
Management tools for
homogeneous SAN's, while not necessarily robust nor mature exist
and are improving. Given that any change in one layer of the SAN
"stack" often effects other layers, a
mechanism to tie these layers together needs to be developed.
Heterogeneous SAN's are a whole new ball game. The key question:
"Whose Rules Apply" needs to be answered before enterprise
management becomes a reality.
Chris Wood will address
these issues and provide some insights into what Sun Microsystems
contemplates in this space.
A file system is required
to allow data sharing in a SAN environment. SAFS is one solution
that brings flexibility and is inherently low overhead and high
performance. This presentation will describe how SAFS work and
some of the many applcations that can benefit from its utilization.
Topics include:
o Comparison/benefit compared to LAN sharing
o Turbo-charge NAS boxes with SAFS.
o Overall Performance and CPU utilization
This presentation focuses
on critical analysis that must be conducted before implementing
storage solutions. It 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
Customers are successfully
deploying large scale storage systems today on the Windows platform.
We've been listening closely to customers and understanding what
they need from Microsoft in order to really exploit the potential
benefits of technologies such as SAN. This presentation summarizes
what we've been hearing, and some of how we are working to add
deeper storage networking and storage management into the Windows
Platform.
- Microsoft and Storage Networking today
- What's new in Windows 2002 for Storage Networking
- Future directions for Storage Networking on the Microsoft platform
11:10 - 12:00 Panel
Co- Moderator: Michael
J. Del Rosso, Chief Technology Officer, OTG Software, Inc.
SESSION 5: SERVICES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS
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.
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.
Co- Moderator:
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. COCKTAIL
RECEPTION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITS
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SESSION 6- Track A: TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
8:30 - 12:00 Presentations
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.
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?
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?
This session will explore:
· State of the industry
· Need for standards
· What standards are currently being considered
· What's on the horizon
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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