Strategies for archiving
Speaker: Dianne McAdam, Senior Analyst and Partner, Data Mobility Group
Description: In this session, Dianne McAdam, Senior Analyst and Partner at Data Mobility Group, discusses the differences between backing up data and archiving data, what hardware solutions are available and the cost of archiving to different media.
For more information: Is WORM media necessary for archiving?

Panel discussion -- Rate the backup vendors
Speakers: Peter Gerr, Senior Research Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group, Robert Stevenson, Technology Strategist, Neilsen Media, Chris Collins, Manager, Infrastructure Planning, AIS, Greenville
Description: Go a level deeper than where to use disk or tape formats for your storage needs. Find out which specific products work the best (or worst) and which vendors are the best (or worst) to work with. This session combines a panel discussion of your peers, insights from Peter Gerr, Senior Research Analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, and exclusive research results from Ken Male, CEO and founder of TheInfoPro.
For more information: Experts: Top five backup products

**For survey results presented by Ken Male, CEO and Founder, TheInfoPro -- please e-mail Ken directly.

Managing a compliant infrastructure -- processes and procedures
Speaker: Mike Casey, Principal Analyst, Contoural Inc.
Description: Compliance is a process, not just a goal, and it's one that the storage group is deeply involved in implementing. Here's a framework for moving compliance from a fire drill to an ongoing SOP.
For more information: Compliance advice

Where IP and FC fit in your enterprise
Speaker: Randy Kerns, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group
Description: Despite the intra-industry hype, most companies will wind up with both protocols for storage networks. Randy Kerns shows you how to use them efficiently and safely, tells you where they fit, how they integrate, and how to manage multiprotocol storage nets.
For more information: Crash Course: iSCSI

Immediate relief With disk backup
Speaker: W. Curtis Preston, VP of Services Development, GlassHouse Technologies
Description: This session led by W. Curtis Preston, VP of Services Development with GlassHouse Technologies, focuses on the disk backup technologies that can be readily integrated into your environment to provide smaller backup windows, faster restore and 24x7 backup operations.
For more information: Integrating disk into backup

Backup School
Speaker: W. Curtis Preston, VP of Services Development, GlassHouse Technologies
Description: W. Curtis Preston, is your teacher for this two-hour session dedicated to exposing you to all of the aspects of backup and how to optimize your backup environments.
For more information: Backup School

Creative negotiating and financing
Speaker: Bill Peldzus, Director of Storage Architecture, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Description: In this session, you learn the questions you should be asking of ALL of your storage vendors, and other important tips and techniques for writing an air-tight RFI or RFP (they are different!).
For more information: Best practices for buying storage

Where FC is headed
Speaker: Marc Staimer, Founder, Dragon Slayer Consulting
Description: The near future will see a lot of confusion in FC bandwidth options, with 4, 8 and ultimately 10GB coming on the market. At the same time, HBA prices are under pressure. What's being done to improve HBA manageability and interoperability? Marc Staimer, Founder of Dragon Slayer Consulting, examines these issues and more.
For more information: Fast guide to Fibre Channel Basics

Enterprise message management and archiving
Speaker: Peter Gerr, Senior Research Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Description: Peter Gerr discusses the deployment of an EM archiving solution delivers tangible and intangible cost savings and business, financial, and operational benefits.
For more information: Round-table discussion on compliance

Virtualization
Speaker: John Blackman, Independent Storage Consultant
Description: This session looks at the many flavors of virtualization from the standpoint of how they reduce or increase the complexity of managing storage.
For more information: Product roundup: Virtualization

The Storage Control Center -- SRM, performance monitoring and operations
Speaker: Jen Fields, Senior Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies
Description: This session by Jen Fields, explores the opportunity to implement proactive storage management practices that facilitate smooth operations of the storage control center. We define techniques to enable reporting, monitoring and management of complex heterogeneous storage environments.
For more information: Storage management tips

Rate the Disk System vendors
Speaker:Presented by Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Description: Tony Asaro teaches you the following:

**For survey results presented by Ken Male, CEO and Founder, TheInfoPro -- please e-mail Ken directly.

Tuesday's sessions:

Building a coherent storage strategy
Speaker: Richard Scannell, Senior Vice President -- North America Consulting, GlassHouse Technologies
Description: In his keynote address, Richard Scannell examines these dynamics and presents his view of how the storage market and the role of storage manager will evolve over the coming years.
For more information: Essential storage primer

SAN School 101
Speaker: Marc Farley, President, Building Storage
Description: If you are implementing your first SAN and need implementation and migration help -- SAN School is for you. If you are far along in the SAN process and need to extend your SANs or connect SAN islands -- SAN School is for you.
For more information: SAN School online

ITIL and other best practices frameworks
Speaker: James Damoulakis, CTO, GlassHouse Technologies
Description:Is there value in trying to adapt ITIL to storage? What are the specific requirements for a storage-focused framework? Are there any models to follow? Jim Damoulakis, CTO of GlassHouse Technologies and Storage magazine columnist, presents a brief overview of ITIL and other frameworks along with some insights.
For more information: Data Management Info Center

Disk storage -- What are your options?
Speaker: Randy Kerns, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group
Description: New RAID schemes, SATA, SAS, fat drives, 2.5 inch drives -- the options keep coming. Each brings with it tradeoffs among capacity, performance and reliability. Randy Kerns, Senior Partner with the Evaluator Group, tells you what you need to know about specifying your disk choices.
For more information: Essential RAID primer

What to ask and what to avoid in storage provisioning tools
Speaker: Stephanie Balaouras, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group
Description:The session examines the technologies currently available to support storage provisioning, the different ways provisioning tools are integrated into other products such as management consoles and SRM suites, and which platform architectures offer the best approach.
For more information: Best practices for provisioning storage

Intelligent archiving -- Toward an ILM World
Speaker: Arun Taneja, Founder and consulting analyst, The Taneja Group
Description: You've established a robust archiving facility for compliance or other reasons. Now that you're gathering some of the right metadata and safely storing the actual data, how do you leverage that with other parts of your infrastructure to make sure your primary storage is only holding what you need it to? Arun Taneja shows you how.
For more information: Important issues to resolve when building an enterprise data archive

Where data protection is headed
Speaker: Pierre Dorion, Business Continuity Consultant, Mainland Information Security
Description: What will backup look like five years from now? Will new data replication technologies replace backup as we know it? How will disk-based appliances enable alternative approaches for protecting data? New technologies are emerging that provide an opportunity to redefine traditional approaches to data protection.
For more information: Learning Guide: Backup/recovery

The adoption of intelligence in the fabric
Speakers: Presented by Nancy Hurley, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group; Chris Collins, Manager, Infrastructure Planning, AIS, Greenville; Greg Graham, CEO, Shotel
Description: Nancy Hurley reviews some of the key findings and talks with a few of the users who participated in the survey about their experience with fabric-based services and the benefits they have realized by utilizing "intelligence in the fabric."
For more information: Where should storage intelligence reside?

**For survey results presented by Ken Male, CEO and Founder, TheInfoPro -- please e-mail Ken directly.

Building a tiered storage infrastructure
Speaker: Brad O'Neill, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group
Description: As you sort out which disk options are right for you, how do you make those decisions at the subsystem level? Should all your SATA drives be in one box and your FC drives in another? Should you mix and match? How do you move data between tiers? How does tiered storage change DR? Brad O'Neill helps you find answers.
For more information: Tiered storage, the next wave

Building an affordable practice for regulation compliance
Speaker: Marc Farley, President, Building Storage
Description: Farley shows you:

Rate the Storage Management Software vendors
Speakers: Nancy Hurley, Enterprise Strategy Group; Mark Dixon, Vice President of Technical Services and Enterprise Infrastructure, Chicago Board of Trade; Jerome Wendt, Storage Administrator, First Data Resources
Description: A panel of end users, moderated by Nancy Hurley, Senior Analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses their recent experiences choosing a storage management vendor for their SAN environment.
For more information: Top 10 tips on storage management

**For survey results presented by Ken Male, CEO and Founder, TheInfoPro -- please e-mail Ken directly.

SAN Math for core/edge SANs
Speaker: Norman Owens, Independent Storage Consultant
Description: Norman Owens presents the 5 variables (S., P., I., C., and E.) and 2 premises that lead to the topology, bill of materials and milestones for the implementation of a successful Core/Edge SAN migration.
For more information: Can a database get too big for its SAN?

Roles and responsibilities in the Storage Group
Speaker: John Webster, Senior Analyst and Founder, Data Mobility Group
Description: What would an IT manager do if one was to form a storage management group within the IT department? One could start by dividing responsibilities into categories: data and infrastructure. In this session, John Webster discusses issues involved.
For more information: How many admins does it take to manage a terabyte?

Get the most out of replication, snapshot and point-in-time copy
Speaker: Dorian Cougias, CEO, Network Frontiers
Description: An increasing variety of software allows you to provide better data protection and to streamline operations through the use of these techniques. Dorian Cougias, author of "The Backup Book," teaches you how to use them to improve backup, DR and to start to manage your data's information lifecycle.
For more information: Crash Course: Snapshots

Rate the switch vendors
Speakers: Nancy Hurley, Enterprise Strategy Group; NTim Arland, SAN/Storage Architect, Acxiom; Chris Collins, Manager, Infrastructure Planning, AIS, Greenville; Robert Stevenson, Technology Strategist, Neilsen Media.
Description: A panel of end users, moderated by Nancy Hurley discusses their recent experiences choosing a switch vendor for their SAN environment. Panelists discuss their switching requirements and the processes they went through to choose their switch and director vendors, including developing RFPs, cost analysis and experiences with in-house evaluations. At the end of the session, the panelists rate the vendors, giving their opinions on who the best vendors are and why. Vendors evaluated include McData, Cisco, Brocade, CNT and Q-Logic.
For more information: Know your switch options

Wednesday's sessions:

Building a storage WAN for enterprise DR
Speaker: Marc Staimer, Founder, Dragon Slayer Consulting
Description: More and more SANs will require a distant twin for DR purposes. That will require using a mix of FC and IP, campus fibre and public services and some sophisticated communications technology to meet the demanding requirements of long-distance storage networking. Marc Staimer, Founder of Dragon Slayer Consulting, discusses best practices so you have a better understanding of what your organization needs to stay ahead of the curve.
For more information: The cost and technicalities of connecting SANs

Selecting SRM tools
Speaker: Stephanie Balaouras, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group
Description: More and more SANs will require a distant twin for DR purposes. That will require using a mix of FC and IP, campus fibre and public services and some sophisticated communications technology to meet the demanding requirements of long-distance storage networking. Marc Staimer, Founder of Dragon Slayer Consulting, discusses best practices so you have a better understanding of what your organization needs to stay ahead of the curve.
For more information: Storage management tools matrix

Storage magazine purchasing intentions survey results
Speaker: Mark Schlack, Editorial Director, Storage Media Group
Description: What are the top 500 storage managers looking to do with their budgets? This survey has the answers.

Storage Decisions, Spring 2004

These sessions are from Storage Decisions Spring 2004 in New York City.

Monday's sessions:

Extracting value from reference information
Speaker: Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group
Description:Steve Duplessie takes a forward look at how to cut storage costs, improve manageability and streamline operations by extracting value from reference material.
For more information: The pros and cons of content-addressed storage (CAS)

Integrating disk into backup for faster restore
Speaker: W. Curtis Preston, President and CEO, The Storage Group
Description: Disk backup offers some great opportunities to streamline backup and make your tape infrastructure more efficient, but there are at least three main ways to do it. Some require using virtual tape, where disk mimics a tape library, yet others involve using file system-based targets for traditional backup (such as ATA disk arrays and NAS filers). W. Curtis Preston helps you sort out these issues.
For more information: Integrating disk into backup

Panel discussion -- Rate the switch vendors
Speaker: Nancy Marrone-Hurley, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group
Description: A panel of end users, moderated by Nancy Marrone-Hurley, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Groups, discusses their recent experiences choosing a switch vendor for their SAN environment.
For more information: Brocade's long-term viability questioned

Tiered storage -- process is key
Speaker: Stephen Foskett, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Description: Focusing on process maturity as a key success factor, Stephen Foskett discusses the components of a tiered internal storage utility.
For more information: How to set up a storage mangement group

How to build trouble-free large SANs up to thousands and thousands of ports
Speaker: Marc Staimer, Founder, Dragon Slayer Consulting
Description: Marc Staimer discusses the issues and headaches of scaling SANs, what to look for and how to avoid common mistakes.
For more information: Blunders in building big SANs

The remote office conundrum -- effective backup architectures
Speaker: Dorian Cougias, author of "The Backup Book"
Description: You have to securely back up your remote offices to ensure data protection. You do it because it makes sense, and sometimes it is even the law. But that doesn't mean it has been easy. This session covers remote office backup architectures, costs and management headaches.
For more information: Backup school

What to ask and what to avoid in a storage resource management RFP
Speaker: Jamie Gruener, Senior Analyst, The Yankee Group
Description: Jamie Gruener looks at the top five priorities you need to consider when evaluating storage resource management (SRM) tools. He explains how these priorities translate into questions you need to ask vendors as part of an RFP.
For more information: RFP Workbook

The storage reports that answer your most important questions
Speaker: Norbert Haag, independent storage consultant
Description: Learn how to utilize storage reporting to answer some of your most pressing questions. Find out what storage reports are most important to get a grip on your storage environment.
For more information: Improve your actual storage utilization

How to build a compliant storage infrastructure
Speaker: Mike Casey, Principal Analyst, Contoural Inc.
Description: Tackling compliance issues means evaluating your organization's use of data from many angles. New laws and regulations require companies to retain more types data; to keep it for longer periods; and to protect it from alteration, deletion or unauthorized disclosure. In this session Mike Casey covers key compliance requirements and reviews storage policies and infrastructure capabilities that can support your company's compliance initiatives.
For more information: Compliance advice

Case studies -- What to do about Windows?

Storage disaster recovery/business continuity over long-haul WANs
Speaker: Marc Staimer, Founder, Dragon Slayer Consulting
Description: Connecting data centers through the WAN or MAN can be done with a variety of links and protocols,from dark fibre to SONET and DWDM. Marc Staimer teaches you about the costs of these various options and how to choose which one is right for you.
For more information: DR, BC, BIA: What's the difference?

RFP workshop -- Tape libraries
Speaker: Dianne McAdam, Senior Analyst and Partner, Data Mobility Group
Description: In this workshop, Dianne McAdam helps you learn common mistakes most storage managers miss on tape-related RFPs and how to avoid them; learn the critical elements that must be included within the RFP; learn if virtual tape systems should be part of your RFP.
For more information: Tape RFP workbook

RPF workshop -- switches
Speaker: John Webster, Senior Analyst and Founder, Data Mobility Group
Description: Building a SAN requires careful and detailed attention to the SAN switching environment. Switches now come with many options, multiple protocols and many different ways to manage them. In this workshop, John Webster helps your sort it all out.
For more information: Switch RFP workbook

Panel discussion -- Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley: Best practices for enabling and maintaining compliance
Speakers: Peter Gerr, Senior Research Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group, Jay Cohen, The MONY Group, Shaun Mahoney, Citigroup, Randal Wilson, Essex Investment Management Company
Description: In this session, Peter Gerr, Senior Research Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group discusses how to address corporate governance and compliance from an organizational perspective and highlights the trends, pitfalls, and future relative to corporate governance and information protection in regulated industries.
For more information: Round-table discussion on compliance

Tuesday's sessions:

Fixing what storage management tools can't
Speaker: Richard Scannell, Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Description: Richard Scannell takes a pragmatic view of the industry as it stands, examining the real issues as they pertain to IT managers and attempt to segment the facts from the fiction and the fears from the foolishness.
For more information: Featured topic: Fixing what storage management tools can't

Designing a backup architecture that actually works
Speaker: W. Curtis Preston, President and CEO, The Storage Group
Description: In this session, W. Curtis Preston teaches you how to design a backup architecture that works for your environment, at the right cost and with the least administration.
For more information: Session workbook

Panel discussion -- Rate the disk vendors
Speakers: Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group, Robert Bellanti, Key Bank Rick Hulsey, Southwest Airlines, Michael Passe, Care Group , Jerome Wendt, First Data
Description: What disk technologies have been deployed that have made a real difference to supporting storage? What is on the horizon? This panel explores that.
For more information: Disk & disk subsystems products of the year

Low-cost technologies and approaches to storage networks
Speaker: Marc Farley, President, Building Storage, Inc.
Description: Marc Farley explores the emerging role of inexpensive disk products such as serial ATA, storage arrays and products less than $20,000. Where are they best suited? When does it make sense to incorporate these into your existing architectures?
For more information: Guide to low-cost storage

Keys to optimizing Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
Speaker: John Merryman, Storage Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Description: John Merryman shows you how to diagnose and optimize your TSM environment.
For more information: TSM exposed

Panel discussion -- Industry leaders discuss archiving challenges
Speakers: James Damoulakis, CTO, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc., Lars Linden, State Street Global Advisors, David Giambruno, Pitney Bowes, Inc., Joe Viviano, Bear Stearns and Co., Inc., Scott Zimmer, Cisco
Description: GlassHouse clients join James Damoulakis to discuss emerging challenges of archiving. Panel participants represent a cross section of industries and functions with varying and complex requirements.
For more information: E-mail archiving: Planning your strategy

RFP Workshop -- Backup hardware
Speakers: Arun Taneja and Brad O'Neill from The Taneja Group
Description: This session will help answer the following questions about D2D products:

Panel discussion -- iSCSI early adopter experiences
Speakers: Randy Kerns, Senior Partner, The Evaluator Group, Eric Koffie-Asare, Sawtel, Thomas Reynolds, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Ken Walters, PBS
Description:Randy Kerns covers results from company deployment of iSCSI solutions and requirements that drove them to choose an iSCSI implementation.
For more information: Guide to implementing iSCSI

Keys to optimizing Veritas NetBackup
Speaker: Jeff Harbert, Storage Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Description: Jeff Harbert presents real-world client examples and discusses best practices for diagnosing and optimizing backup environments using Veritas NetBackup.
For more information: Bargain hunting for NetBackup

RFP Workshop -- Disk subsystems
Speaker: Dianne McAdam, Senior Analyst, Data Mobility Group
Description: In this workshop, Dianne McAdam helps you answer the following questions:

Panel discussion -- Rate the SRM/Software management vendors
Speakers: Nancy Marrone-Hurley, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group, Robert Bellanti, Key Bank, Steven Rubinow, Archipelago Holdings, LLC, Robert Stevenson, Nielsen Media Research, Jerome Wendt, First Data
Description: A panel of end users, moderated by Nancy Marrone-Hurley, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Groups, discusses their recent experiences choosing a storage management vendor for their SAN environment.
For more information: Fast guide to SAN management

Keys to optimizing Legato NetWorker
Speaker: Natalie Mead, Storage Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Description: Learn how to optimize backup environments using Legato NetWorker with Natalie Mead.
For more information: EMC makes Legato a backup threat

Panel discussion -- Backup and restore
Speakers: Arun Taneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst, The Taneja Group, Trent Bateman, Industrial Light and Magic, Jesse Correll, Met Life, Joe Crawford, Digex, Peter Popovich, Epicore Software
Description: Arun Taneja shares what users are experiencing and what their perceptions are for next-generation backup and restore solutions. The panel members share their individual company experiences and add color to Arun's comments.
For more information: Fast guide to backup

Buying storage -- The questions your vendors don't want you to ask
Speaker: Bill Peldzus, Director of Storage Architecture, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Description: In this session, you learn the questions you should be asking of ALL of your storage vendors, and other important tips and techniques for writing an air-tight RFI or RFP (they are different!).
For more information: Best practices for buying storage

What storage managers need to know about security
Speaker: Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group
Description: Jon Oltsik describes storage security in the context of enterprise security. This session also includes a brief security tutorial.
For more information: Best principles for storage security

Wednesday's sessions:

Panel discussion -- Rate the backup vendors
Speakers: Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group, Scott Collins, J. Craig Venter Science, Jim Green, Western Gas, Dave Port, NFL, Michael Passe, Care Group
Description: Arun Taneja shares what users are experiencing and what their perceptions are for next-generation backup and restore solutions. The panel members share their individual company experiences and add color to Arun's comments.
For more information: Nine rules for better backups

Internal recovery -- Is it right for you?
Speaker:David Edborg, Director of High Availability Solutions, Corigelan
Description: David Edborg presents a methodology for examining your existing continuity capability and its requirements, developing economic models of internal vs. external recovery, and identifying the leveragability of internal test and development, as well as dedicated resources for use in a disaster.
For more information: Library of backup/DR tips

Storage magazine's 2004 purchasing intentions survey results
Speaker: Mark Schlack, Editorial Director, Storage Media Group, TechTarget
Description: Storage's semi-annual survey details the spending plans of 500 corporate storage managers. Mark Schlack, Editorial Director of the Storage Media Group at TechTarget, tells you how much storage managers are spending, how they're spending it and why.
For more information: Storage magazine

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