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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Robert Schultz, Chief Operating Officer, Adaptec
Track A-General Architecture Futures Directions in Storage Inter-Networking Clod Barrera, Director of Systems Strategy, SSD, IBM Content Delivery Architectures Amit Pandey, Director, Network Appliance Corporation Virtualization - Implementations and Real World David Lamont, VP of Marketing, Vicom An Introduction to SAN Capacity Planning Mark Friedman, Vice President, Datacore Data Accelerators Marc Farley, President and senior analyst, Building Storage Track B - Interconnects- The Bandwidth Revolution The End of Storage Networking Tom Clark, Director of Technical Marketing, Nishan Systems FC, iSCSI, SATA, IB - the Alphabet Soup of Storage Interfaces Mike Fitzpatrick, Sr. Research Executive, Fujitsu Computer New trends in HBAs Mike Smith, Executive Vice President, Emulex Corporation Enabling Distributed Intelligence in Next-Generation Networks Jussi Harvela, President and CEO, Solid Information System Intelligent Fibre Infrastructure Stuart Berman, Chief Technology Officer, Vixel Corporation Storage Networks - How Fiber Fits David Danchak, VP, Business Development, American Fiber Systems
Market update - Industry Analysts Panel
Robert Gray, Research Director, Storage, IDC - David Hill, Research Director, Storage, Aberdeen Group - Marc Farley, President and Senior Analyst, Building Storage - Farid Neema, President and Senior Analyst, Peripheral Concepts, Inc. and Chairman of the Network Storage conference
6:00 p.m.COCKTAILS and PRIVATE SESSIONS
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: TOM RALLENS, Vice President and General Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company
SESSION 2 (Morning) - THE VENDOR'S VIEW- A PANEL OF TOP ARCHITECTS AND CTO'S
Minimizing Complexity - A Total Storage Solution Brian Truskowski, VP, Systems Strategy, SSD, IBM Corporation A Major Step Towards Tomorrow's Storage Platforms Jim Rothnie, Senior VP, CTO, EMC Corporation Storage: The True Universal Platform Tom Porter, Executive VP and CTO, Seagate Technologies Outline Not Available Soni Jiandani, Vice President, Storage Technology Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.![]()
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SESSION 3 (Afternoon) - THE IT MANAGER'S CHALLENGE- CASE STUDIES
Storage Network Appliance - A case study End user to be named, Introduced by Bob Woolery, VP of Strategic Development, DataDirect Networks, Inc Interconnecting SANs - A case study End user to be named, Introduced by Niraj Jain, VP Marketing and Business Development, SAN Valley Systems Protecting Business' Critical Information Andrea Chiaffitelli, COE, Consulting, Enterprise Storage Networks, AT&T Virtualization, Improving Management and TCO - A Case Study End user to be named. Introduced by Mark Spowart, President, StoreAge
Moderator for the two sessions: Chris Wood, Director Technical Field Marketing, Sun Microsystems
5:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. OPEN BUFFET DINNER RECEPTION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITS
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SESSION 4 (Morning): " STORAGE MANAGEMENT- CONSOLIDATION AND INTEGRATION" This session will explore the most recent developments in policy-based storage management, virtualization, srm, and security management Brenda Zawatski , Vice President, storage management software, Tivoli Robin Purohit, Vice President, Product management, VERITAS Software Corporation George Symons, Vice President, Product Management and Development, Legato Systems Bob Rogers, Chief Storage Technologist, BMC Software
SESSION 5 (Afternoon): COPING WITH EVOLUTIONS SURROUNDING STORAGE This session will discuss the evolution in network infrastructure and server architecture, and discuss how they might affect storage design and utilization Lin Neas, Chief Technology Officer, Hewlett Packard Company
3:30 - 5:00 PM EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE: "ASSESSING THE STORAGE INDUSTRY"
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Larry Boucher, Founder and CEO, Alacritec Luca Cafiero, Senior VP and GM, Storage Technology Group, Cisco Larry Orecklin, President Storage Solutions Group, Quantum Corporation Dave Roberson, Chief Operating Officer, Hitachi Data Systems David Wright, Chairman and CEO, Legato Systems, Inc. 5:00 - 7:00 PM COCKTAIL RECEPTION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITS New Technology exhibits will also run 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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SESSION 6A - DATA PROTECTION AND SECURITY(click for more detail) Panel A1 - Data Protection Hernert Grau, Chairman and CEO, Grau Data Storage Bill Reed, Vice President Marketing, Spectra Logic Don Trimmer, Founder and Chief Strategic Officer, Alacritus Panel A2 - Data Security Aseem Vaid, Founder and CEO, NeoScale Systems Phil Grasso Founder & VP of Marketing, Sotera Networks Kamy Kavianian, Director of Product Marketing, Brocade Kacey Carpenter, Manager, Enterprise Solutions Group, Cisco SESSION 7A(click for more detail) Panel A3- Storage I/O and Interconnect Tom Heil, LSI-Logic Susan Bobholz, Manager, Advanced Development, Intel Corp. Marty Czekalski, Technical Marketing Manager, Maxtor Corporation Panel A4- Networked Storage Fabric Evolution Brice Clark, R&D and Strategy Integration Director, Hewlett-Packard Rich Napolitano, President and CEO, Pirus Todd Matters, CTO & Co-founder, InfiniCon Systems Peter Dixon, EVP, Sales and Marketing, SANcastle Technologies Rick Walsworth, VP Marketing, Maranti Track B Panel B1 - Storage Virtualization and Aggregation Jack Staub, President, Broadband Storage Vladimir Miloushev Founder and CEO, Z-Force Inc. Ashar Aziz, CTO, Terraspring Ron Bianchini, CEO and President - Spinnaker Networks Panel B2 - Storage processors and Data Accelerators Dr. Steven A. Orszag, Chairman and Founder , Ibrix Geoff Barrall, CTO and SVP of Engineering, BlueArc Wayne Karpoff, Vice President, YottaYotta Balaji Baktha, VP Marketing,Storage Networking, Adaptec Panel B3 - Storage Management Ron Higgins, CTO and Founder, TeraCloud Corporation Michael Klayko, President and CEO, Rhapsody Networks Lisa Cash, President and CEO, Princeton Softech Larry Cormier, VP Marketing and Business , CommVault Investing in Storage - Financial Analysts Panel
Jeff Hinck, General Partner, Crescendo Ventures - Alex Gurvich, Independent, formerly GE Equity (Minneapolis, MN) - Patrick Curran, Partner, Great Hill Partners (Boston, MA) - John Dean, Director, Salomon Smith Barney, Menlo Park, CA - Ilan Carmi, Partner, Kodiak Venture Partners - - - Moderator: Barbara Nelson, Executive VP Corporate Marketing and Strategy, Quantum
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5:00 p.m. CONFERENCE ADJOURN


