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Session proceedingsEditor's note
Over 500 IT directors, managers, systems architects and engineers descended upon Chicago in early September to take part in TechTarget's fifth enterprise storage conference, Storage Decisions 2003.
The 2.5-day event included a mix of both practical and conceptual sessions led by recognized independent experts, authors and analysts in the field of enterprise storage.
The sessions covered multiple tracks designed for different experience levels and interests. Tracks included:
Editors from both of TechTarget's storage media properties, SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine covered the event. A collection of their session reviews and reports appear here, along with links to view each speaker's presentation online.
Speakers covered a lot of ground for attendees -- from tips for negotiating with your vendors (see keynote presentation by Gartner's Nick Allen) to the best place to deploy disk-to-disk staging methods (see "Integrating disk into backup," by W. Curtis Preston). Also covered was the best use of emerging technologies such as iSCSI and 10Gb Ethernet (see "10 GB emergence in the data center," by Marc Staimer).
If you are in need of information from the experts or your peers to help you make better storage decisions, I urge you to take advantage of this rich collection of resources.
Sincerely,
Michele Hope P.S. Are there other storage topics you'd like to see us cover in future storage conferences? Let us know. Be sure to also check the Web site to register or learn more about the next Storage Decisions conference.
News round-up from SearchStorage.com SD 2003: Microsoft announces file-based storage OS
SD 2003: Gartner storage guru shares storage buying secrets
SD 2003: Vendors seens as feeding off compliance paranoia
SD 2003: Brocade's long-term viability questioned
SD 2003: Corporate DR mandates driving IT priorities for 2004
Keynote address Get the most from your storage network
Rate the vendor sessions Panel: Rate the backup vendors Panel: Rate the switch vendors Panel: Rate the disk vendors
RFP sessions: How to create storage requests for proposal (RFP) Planning for a storage array purchase and developing an RFP Writing a switch RFP: All we want is everything we can get RFPs for storage resource management (SRM) & policy-based management Creating RFPs for SAN management solutions Creating RFPs for tape libraries
User case studies Consolidation strategies that work: Storage area networks (SAN) Consolidation strategies that work: Network-attached storage (NAS)
Other main conference sessions and workshops Panel: Storage and the future of the data center Designing a backup architecture that actually works Integrating disk into backup for faster restores Disk cost busters - How to leverage low-cost disk solutions Keep data at a distance: Disaster recovery for the 'new realities' Aligning storage management tools with operational processes 10 GB emergence in the data center iSCSI - The new storage interconnect on the 'block?' NAS and gateways: Considerations for file storage The pros and cons of content-addressed storage (CAS) From regulation to desperation: A life sciences case study in compliance Panel: Regulatory compliance - The effect on information management and the storage industry Results from Storage magazine's 2004 purchasing intentions survey SNIA: Providing answers to storage questions
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Speaker: Nick Allen, vice president and research director, Gartner Group, Inc.
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Speaker: Randy Kerns, partner, The Evaluator Group
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Workbook: Storage array RFPs and distributed storage
Speaker: John Webster, senior analyst and founder, Data Mobility Group, Inc.
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Workbook: RFPs for switches
Speaker: Jamie Gruener, senior analyst, The Yankee Group
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Workbook: SRM vendor selection criteria
Speaker: Marc Farley, independent consultant and author, Building Storage, Inc.
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Workbook: SAN management RFPs
Speaker: Dianne McAdam, senior analyst and partner, Data Mobility Group
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Workbook: Preparing tape-related RFPs
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Speaker: Norman Owens, storage network engineer and consultant, Carlson Companies
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Speaker: Steve Curry, storage operations manager, Yahoo
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Speaker: W. Curtis Preston, founder and president, The Storage Group
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Workbook: Designing backup architectures
Speaker: W. Curtis Preston, founder and president, The Storage Group
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Speaker: Ron Lovell, storage practice director, Greenwich Technology Partners
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Speaker: Damian Walch, vice president of consulting, T-Systems
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Speaker: Stephen Foskett, senior consultant, storage management strategies and
integration, Glasshouse Technologies
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Speaker: Marc Staimer, founder, Dragonslayer Consulting
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Speaker: Sean P. Derrington, consultant, enterprise storage and servers, Appergy, Inc.
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Speaker: Randy Kerns, Partner, The Evaluator Group
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NAS workbook
Speaker: Arun Taneja, founder, The Taneja Group
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Speaker: Richard Scannell, vice president of corporate development and strategy at GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
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Speaker: Mark Schlack, Editor-in-Chief, Storage magazine
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Speaker: Sheila Childs, chairperson, board of directors, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
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