NETWORK STORAGE 2002

Thursday June 20, 2002

TECHNOLOGY FUTURES

 

 

SESSION 6A - DATA PROTECTION and DATA SECURITY

8:00 - 9:30       Data Protection Panel 

9:30 - 9:45       Break

9:30 - 11:00     Data Security Panel
 
 
11:00 - 12:15 Financial Analyst Panel - Investing in Storage

 

12:30 - 1:30 LUNCH


SESSION 7A - I/O AND INTERCONNECTS

1:30 - 3:00	  Storage I/O and Interconnect Panel (SCSI, serial SCSI, ATA, SATA, IB, 3GIO)

3:00 - 3:15  Break

3:15 - 4:45  Networked Storage Fabric Evolution (FC, iSCSI, FCIP, IB, 3GIO+ Switch)

4:45 - 5:00	 Conclusion

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Session 6A - Data Protection and Security


Panel A1- Data Protection

Beyond Data Protection- A New Way to Look at Tapes
Herbert Grau, Chairman and CEO, Grau Data Storage

This presentation will discuss tape Solutions providing exceptional data accessibility and protection at a fraction of cost of disk. It is a computing infrastructure addition, an all-in-one appliance, that focuses on the challenges of delivering high capacity centralized storage management solutions. Topics discussed include:
· Data protection and/or Disaster recovery ( from the desktop to the servers) through automatic replication
· Reduced backup workloads through policy-based, multi-level, HSM-driven data migration
· High-availability storage solutions using local and remote systems that include load balancing and automatic failover.
· High capacity storage archiving that scales to 100s of TBs in a single solution with access in seconds.

 

Evolving Tape Backup Strategies for NAS Environments
Bill Reed, Vice President Marketing, Spectra Logic Corporation

The benefits of consolidation generally arise from improvements in management control and operating efficiency. How can tape technology deliver complete networked storage flexibility for the entire enterprise in the world of IP-storage. Key issues will include:
· Centralization Consolidation Flexibility
· backup in iSCSI, SoIP (iFCP/mFCP), VI, and NDMP environments
· special needs of tape peripherals

 

Storage Virtualization: what does it mean for backup technologies?
Don Trimmer, President and CEO, Alacritus

The last decade has seen many incremental improvements in backup/recovery technologies. This decade will see a revolution.
The significant event is not the advent of Storage Virtualization, but rather the dramatic decline in cost of inexpensive disk drives. By the end of 2002, a hard disk drive will cost substantially less than a piece of tape media with equivalent capacity. The gap between hard disk drive and tape media costs will widen exponentially for at least the next four years. While a low cost ATA disk system may not have performance characteristics suitable for use as a primary data store, its performance characteristics are ideal for backup/recovery operations. However, while the economics clearly favor disk over tape, a transition cannot occur unless hard disk drives are able to provide all of the functionality that tape offers. Further, complete and well-integrated disk based backup/recovery solutions must be available. So what does this mean for end users? . . . .
The presentation will discuss:
· Disk vs Tape for backup
· Virtual Tape Library Technologies
· Implementation examples

 

 

 

Panel A2- Data Security

Cost-Effective Network Storage Security
NeoScale Systems, Inc.

Network storage brings the promise of meeting demand capacity, availability and continuity - it also brings security challenges. Distributed storage data protection in transport and on media
complements the emerging SAN/NAS security standards and best practices such as device authentication, VPNs, zoning, and masking. This presentation will discuss crucial storage data encryption and access control considerations, will explore secure storage applications, and will show how storage data protection can enable greater networked storage capabilities.

 

Securing Data on High-speed Storage Networks
Phil Grasso, Founder & VP of Marketing, Sotera Networks

This presentation will inform the audience how internal and external data managers can effectively protect data on high-speed storage networks. The audience will learn about emerging network security technology that does not introduce any performance penalty or interfere with the ability to manage data. Key issues to be discussed include:
· Transparent, network-level storage security technology
· Encrypting network data onto storage media
· Centralized security policy management

 

Locking All the Doors to your SAN: Security Issues and Solutions
Kamy Kavianian, Director of Product Marketing, Network Security and Architecture, Brocade

As Storage Area Networks grow larger and extend over greater distances, IT managers have become more interested in SAN security issues. How do you lock all the "doors" of your SAN home and protect against both internal and external security threats? What measures and tools do IT managers need to ensure security for their customers?

Significant progress has been made in the area of SAN security. The goal is to provide a highly secure, scalable, resilient and standards-based security infrastructure for heterogeneous SAN environments. Successful SAN security starts with risk analysis, where different facets of the network are analyzed to determine weaknesses and security holes. Next, effective security policies must be created to provide the guiding principals. Security implementation covers access control, authentication, and confidentiality. The final elements of a comprehensive security solution entail monitoring and auditing, which feed information back to the risk analysis process in an ongoing cycle that ensures continuous improvement.

 

 

Allaying Security Concerns of Using iSCSI
Kacey Carpenter, Manager, Solutions marketing, Enterprise Solutions Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.

The hallmark benefit of iSCSI is the ability of enterprises to provide more of their hosts (servers and workstations) access to their centralized, high-performance storage area networks (SANs) using the reach, ubiquity, and familiarity of TCP/IP networks. While this enables enterprises to better utilize their storage resources and reduce the total cost of owning storage, it also means that some of their storage traffic may have to traverse over wide-area, public networks. This may raise concerns among storage administrators who are used to their systems being confined to private, highly secure data-center environments. However, as this presentation will discuss, the networking world has evolved many measures within IP to address a myriad of security issues that can be applied to storage networking over IP. Specific topics examined in this article include:
· An overview of the issue: Data security/integrity concerns of using iSCSI or IP storage networking in general,
· A look at existing IP security features that can be implemented in IP storage networking,
· A look at future IP security features for additional protection.

 

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Session 7A

Panel A3- Storage I/O and Interconnect

 

The New Storage Interface Landscape
Tom Heil, LSI-Logic

The storage interface landscape is changing rapidly, resulting in a large, somewhat confusing matrix of existing and emerging technologies. This presentation sorts through the confusion and hype, describing the merits of each technology, and the role each is likely to play in storage architectures moving forward. Key technical and market factors expected to shape outcome will be discussed. This presentation will examine:
· Host/Embedded Interfaces: PCI vs. 3GIO (Arapahoe) vs. HyperTransport vs. Rapid I/O
· SAN Interfaces: Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI vs. InfiniBand
· Peripheral Interfaces: SCSI vs. Fibre Channel vs. ATA vs. Serial ATA)
· Serial-Attached SCSI initiative.

 

Serial-ATA in Networked Storage - Continuing the Trend
Susan Bobholz, Manager Advanced development, Intel Corporation

This presentation will illustrate how the Serial-ATA disk interface technology will continue the trend of ATA technology use in networked storage. Key topics include:
· Future look at how ATA technology will change the landscape of networked storage
· Compelling features of Serial-ATA that will continue on the foundation that parallel has built
· Serial ATA roadmap, including an overview of Serial ATA II

The SCSI Roadmap - Maximum Throughput and Protecting Your IT Investment
Paul Aloisi, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff & High Performance Analog
Products Group, Texas Instruments

This presentation will look at the SCSI roadmap forthcoming over the next eight years. Achieving maximum bandwidth and efficiency through high performance migration will be discussed. Key topics will include:
· Significant features in future SCSI generations which will enable high performance bandwidth migration
· New topologies that allow users to extend their SCSI-based storage connections
· Applications made possible by future SCSI generations
· Legacy connection

 

Panel A4- Networked Storage Fabric Evolution

Fabric Futures
Brice Clark, R&D and Strategy Integration Director, Network Storage Solutions Organization, Hewlett-Packard Company

Today, networked storage means Fibre Channel for SANs and Ethernet for NAS. However, new technologies like iSCSI, FCIP, Infiniband and more stand to change the nature of networked storage and as a result the nature of data centers, disaster recovery, SAN/NAS convergence, and enabling storage utilities and storage solutions on a planetary scale. The evolution of storage fabric is accelerating as storage networking becomes mainstream. We will take a look at some possible storage fabric futures and what they mean to the world of computing and communications and to your IT solutions options.

 

Intelligent Storage Switches: A giant leap in streamlining storage complexity
Rich Napolitano, President and CEO, Pirus

The ideal solution for reducing storage networking complexity, streamlining manageability and optimizing utilization and cost efficiency, is one that integrates the storage resources logically as well as physically within a more intelligent network infrastructure. The most promising of recent innovations is a new generation of intelligent storage switches that is emerging to help drive the transition. This session will cover current inefficiencies that plague today's storage infrastructures and hinder the ability to quickly respond to the changing storage landscape. It will also discuss a new class of intelligent switches that are emerging that facilitate converged approach.

 

How InfiniBand Will Help Improve Storage Infrastructures
Todd Matters, CTO & Co-founder, InfiniCon Systems

Today's approach to storage networks utilizes a separate interface per server to access each of the varied storage networks. This creates complexity resulting in a reduction in efficient response to rapid changes in business requirements. The introduction of a sharable common intelligent I/O subsystem simplifies IT environments, improving overall competitiveness. This presentation will focus on how an InfiniBand-enabled sharable I/O subsystem will improve storage infrastructures, and show how the ability to deploy a shared infrastructure will enable a simplified network topology from the server to access the appropriate type of storage for an application. Key issues include:
· InfiniBand enabled sharable
· Reliability, manageability and bandwidth improvement
· Improve Total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) and user satisfaction with storage networks.