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NetApp Industry Leaders and Customers Advance Discussions Around Flexible and Efficient IT at SNW Spring 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-March 21, 2011- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) experts and customers will drive industry discussions around flexible and efficient IT solutions at SNW Spring 2011 by participating in speaking sessions focused on virtualization, cloud computing, shifts in industry trends, and much more. During the show, the NetApp booth (booth 508) will feature presentations on how to make data centers more flexible and efficient, and NetApp technical experts will be on hand for discussions at the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) booth (booth 509), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Cloud Pavilion, and leading the Cloud Storage Hands On Lab. NetApp is a gold sponsor of SNW Spring 2011, which takes place April 4-7, 2011 in Santa Clara, California.
Following is a list of the various sessions NetApp will present during SNW Spring 2011:
| Session: | "The Benefits of Solid State in Enterprise Storage Systems" |
| Speaker: | Dave Dale, director of Industry Standards, NetApp |
| Date: | Monday, April 4 |
| Time: | 10:15-11 a.m. Pacific Time |
| Session: | "Advanced Deduplication Concepts" |
| Speaker: | Larry Freeman, Data Storage technologist, NetApp |
| Date: | Monday, April 4 |
| Time: | 1-1:45 p.m. Pacific Time |
| Session: | "Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies" |
| Speaker: | Jason Iehl, Data Protection Solutions architect, NetApp |
| Date: | Tuesday, April 5 |
| Time: | 10:45-11:30 a.m. Pacific Time |
| Session: | "Green Storage Technologies, Capex, and Opex" |
| Speaker: | Dr. Alan Yoder, Office of the CTO, NetApp |
| Date: | Tuesday, April 5 |
| Time: | 3:05-3:50 p.m. Pacific Time |
| Session: | "Three Virtualization Management Myths Busted" |
| Speaker: | Rich Corley, senior director of Product Management, NetApp |
| Date: | Wednesday, April 6 |
| Time: | 10:45-11:30 a.m. Pacific Time |
| Session: | "Solving Infrastructure Complexities with the Flexibility of a Converged Network" |
| Speaker: | Jason Beckham, director of IT Operations, Payformance Corporation |
| Date: | Wednesday, April 6 |
| Time: | 10:45-11:30 a.m. Pacific Time |
| Panel: | "Data Center Transformation: The Changing Roles of the People and Technology" |
| Moderator: | Camberley Bates, managing director, The Evaluator Group, Inc. |
| Speakers: | Darryl Meidinger, director of Technical
Services, Univita Health David Davies, CIO, Flight Options Shahin Pirooz, CTO, CenterBeam, Inc. |
| Date: | Wednesday, April 6 |
| Time: | 10:45-11:30 a.m. Pacific Time |
| Session: | "Stepping Stones to the Cloud: Building a Shared IT Infrastructure" |
| Speaker: | Val Bercovici, Office of the CTO, NetApp |
| Date: | Wednesday, April 6 |
| Time: | 11:40 a.m.-12:25 p.m. Pacific Time |
| Panel: | "Converged Networks: Here Today, Here to Stay" |
| Moderators: | David Vellante, CEO and co-founder, The
Wikibon Project Stu Miniman, senior analyst, The Wikibon Project |
| Speakers: | Mike McNamara, senior manager of SAN Product
Marketing and Alliances, NetApp Satish Lakshmanan, senior director of Marketing, Host Solutions Group, QLogic Jason Beckham, director of IT Operations, Payformance Corporation |
| Date: | Wednesday, April 6 |
| Time: | 11:40 a.m.-12:25 p.m. Pacific Time |
| Panel: | "Kick-Butt Advancements in Fibre Channel and FCoE" |
| Moderators: | David Vellante, CEO and founder, Wikibon Project |
| Speakers: | Mike McNamara, senior manager of SAN Product
Marketing and Alliances, NetApp Mark Jones, director of Corporate Planning and Technology, Emulex Skip Jones, director of Technology, QLogic Corporation Greg Scherer, vice president Server and Storage Strategy, Broadcom Steve Wilson, director of Technology and Standards, Brocade Claudio DeSanti, distinguished engineer, Advanced Architectures and Research, Cisco |
| Date: | Wednesday, April 6 |
| Time: | 2:10-2:55 p.m. Pacific Time |
| Session: | "RFP 2.0: How to Prepare Your IT Infrastructure for the Future" |
| Speaker: | Larry Freeman, Data Storage technologist, NetApp |
| Date: | Wednesday, April 6 |
| Time: | 2:10-2:55 p.m. Pacific Time |
| Session: | "IT Healthcare: Univita Health Prescribes Unified IT to Cure Disjointed IT Environments" |
| Speaker: | Darryl Meidinger, director of Technical Services, Univita Health |
| Date: | Thursday, April 7 |
| Time: | 8:30-9:15 a.m. Pacific Time |
| NetApp Booth: | 508 |
| Registration: | For complete information or to register for the event, visit communities.netapp.com/docs/DOC-10064. |
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