NetApp Experts and Customers to Lead Industry Discussions at SNW Fall 2009
Sunnyvale, CA – September 28, 2009 – NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) executives, industry experts, and customers will drive discussions at SNW Fall 2009 in a variety of subjects, including cloud computing, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), data protection, and maximizing storage efficiency. NetApp is a gold sponsor of the event, which takes place October 12-15, 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona.
NetApp will also participate in the Cloud Pavilion, the FCoE Hands-On-Lab, an FCoE demo in the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) booth (#1200) and conduct certification/qualification testing at the show.
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Technologies for Green Storage |
| Speaker: |
Dr. Alan Yoder, senior member of the Technical Staff, NetApp |
| Date: |
Monday, October 12 |
| Time: |
10:15–11:00 a.m. |
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Server and Storage Consolidation with iSCSI Arrays |
| Speakers: |
David Dale, director, Industry Standards, NetApp, chair of the SNIA’s Ethernet Storage Forum
Suzanne Morgan, program manager, Enterprise Storage and Storage Networking Interconnects; vice chair of the SNIA’s Ethernet Storage Forum, Microsoft |
| Date: |
Monday, October 12 |
| Time: |
11:10–11:55 a.m. |
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| Session: |
Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond |
| Speaker: |
Jason Iehl, Data Protection Solutions architect, NetApp |
| Date: |
Monday, October 12 |
| Time: |
1:00–1:45 p.m. |
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Is Your Data Management and Storage Approach Ready for the Cloud? |
| Speaker: |
Val Bercovici, Office of the CTO |
| Date: |
Monday, October 12 |
| Time: |
1:55–2:40 p.m. |
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Centralized Disk-based Backup is the Vault to United Community Banks Critical Data |
| Speaker: |
Larry DesPres, senior vice president of Technology, United Community Banks |
| Date: |
Tuesday, October 13 |
| Time: |
2:10–2:55 p.m. |
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| Session: |
pNFS, Parallel Storage for Grid and Enterprise Computing |
| Speaker: |
Joshua Konkle, NAS Technical evangelist, NetApp |
| Date: |
Tuesday, October 13 |
| Time: |
4:00–4:45 p.m. |
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| Session: |
Primary Storage: The New Frontier for Data Deduplication |
| Panelists: |
Val Bercovici, Office of the CTO
Arun Taneja, founder, Taneja Group
Jered Floyd, chief technology officer, Permabit
Carter George, vice president, Products, Ocarina Networks
Peter Smails, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing, Storwize Inc. |
| Date: |
Tuesday, October 13 |
| Time: |
2:10–2:55 p.m. |
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| Session: |
FCoE - The Arrival of the New Data Center |
| Speakers: |
Mike McNamara, senior manager, Product Marketing, NetApp
Dave Simpson, editor-in-chief, InfoStor
Rob Davis, vice president of Advanced Technology, Qlogic
Claudio DeSanti, distinguished engineer, Advanced Architectures & Research, Cisco Systems
Tom Hammond-Doel, senior alliance manager, Engenio Storage Group of LSI, and Vice-Chairman, FCIA
Ahmad Zamer, senior product marketing manager, Brocade |
| Date: |
Tuesday, October 13 |
| Time: |
4:55–5:40 p.m. |
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| Session: |
Coppin State University Makes the Grade with its Scalable and Efficient Storage Infrastructure |
| Speaker: |
Thomas Smith, director of Campus Network Services, Coppin State University |
| Date: |
Wednesday, October 14 |
| Time: |
4:00–4:45 p.m. |
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| Session: |
Ideal Application for IP SANs |
| Speakers: |
Jason Blosil, Product Marketing manager, NetApp
Gary Gumanow, Product Marketing manager, Dell |
| Date: |
Thursday, October 15 |
| Time: |
8:30–9:15 a.m. |
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| Session: |
What Would Life Be Like if You Really Could "Do More with Less" |
| Speaker: |
David A. Chapa, director, Data Protection Solutions, NetApp |
| Date: |
Thursday, October 15 |
| Time: |
11:15 a.m.–Noon |
NetApp Booth: #1003
For more information about SNW Fall 2009, please visit www.snwusa.com.
For more information about NetApp® industry standards efforts to help rapid application deployment, smooth integration into customers’ existing infrastructures, and improve interoperability with other vendors’ solutions by utilizing and supporting open standards, visit www.netapp.com/us/company/leadership/industry-standards.
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