Ziff Davis Enterprise- 06-17-09 Storage Editorial VTS

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Keynote Presentation
Panel Presentation
Sponsor Presentation
Hitachi Data Systems Sponsor Presentation: Reduce Infrastructure Costs with Storage Economics
Purchase price is typically only 25% of the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a storage device over three to four years. Storage Economics can help you identify and reduce the other hidden 75%. Join David Merrill, Chief Economist and Global Business Consultant at Hitachi Data Systems, for this informative webcast on this powerful approach, better measurement and new storage architectures can reduce storage TCO and boost return on data center investment.

You’ll hear multi-year economic analysis from HDS showing how the average customer over three years can identify and remove $1 million of cost for every 12 terabytes (TB) of installed and used storage.

Join this webcast and discuss concepts and principles around storage TCO, as well as key ideas and tactics. Learn to present a new view of strategic investments and adjustments to deliver superior storage solutions at an exceptional overall cost.
Opening Keynote Address: Ballooning data, shriveling budgets
Data growth continues swelling as IT budgets tighten. How can IT, business, data center and storage leaders keep up? This session presents proven strategies to keep crucial initiatives in track and maximize storage investments when times are tight.
Panel 1: Crossroads: Storage Virtualization or NAS?
Realize it or not, decision time draws close for IT organizations: Commit to virtualized storage or to scalable Network Attached Storage (NAS) clusters. Which of these conflicting, next-generation paths is right for your organization? What are current vendor strategies in each area? Which minimizes complexity and risk? Hear a frank discussion aimed at helping you choose.
Panel 2: Cloud Storage: How, when, if, what, really?
From Nicholas Carr (The Big Switch) to IBM, there’s growing agreement: Most large enterprises aren’t going to outsource ALL their data center operations, including storage, to a public cloud like Amazon's. Different workloads, the reasoning goes, demand different support, so certain applications shouldn’t be moved to the cloud. Top experts debate when and how outsourcing storage makes sense.
Panel 3: Tech Check: Dedupe, Solid State, DR, Green, Content Addressed Storage
Join a panel of industry experts and for quick, unbiased reality checks on the hottest storage-related data center technologies. Featuring eWEEK Labs.
Chris Preimesberger, Greg Schulz, David Zumwalt and Stefan Molnar

Chris Preimesberger
Senior Editor
eWEEK

Greg Schulz
Founder and Senior Analyst
StorageIO Group

David Zumwalt
Executive Director
UVI Research & Technology Park, University of the Virgin Islands

Stefan Molnar
IT Manager, US Operations
OPENLANE, Inc.

Chris Yeich and Brian Babineau

Chris Yeich
Editor, Strategic Content
Ziff Davis Enterprise

Brian Babineau
Senior Analyst
Enterprise Strategy Group

David Merrill & Joe Maglitta

Joe Maglitta
Editorial Director
Ziff Davis Enterprise Events

David Merrill
Chief Economist
Hitachi Data Systems

Joe Maglitta, Rodney Rumford, Alex Hankewicz and Tom Amrhein

Joe Maglitta
Editorial Director
Ziff Davis Enterprise Events

Rodney Rumford
Co-Founder, Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer
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Alex Hankewicz
Senior Analyst & BP/BI Advisor
Data Mobility Group

Tom Amrhein
CIO
Forrester Construction

Michael Vizard, Ashish Nadkarni, Irwin Teodoro and Jeff Caldwell

Michael Vizard
Market Expert
Ziff Davis Enterprise

Ashish Nadkarni
Principal Consultant
GlassHouse

Irwin Teodoro
Director of Engineering, Systems Integration
Laurus Technologies

Jeff Caldwell
Director of Storage and Planning
Chicago Board Options Exchange