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Avoiding a Compliance Catastrophe: Storage Innovations for Surviving the Messaging Avalanche
Storage management executives are concerned with clearing regulatory and legal hurdles relating to the retention and destruction of data. The biggest headache is managing written communications records, like the expanding volumes of e-mail, instant and mobile messaging that clogs inboxes and burdens even the most voluminous storage systems. Join a panel of experts and industry practitioners as they weigh the latest innovations in storage architecture designed to meet stringent compliance standards while keeping up with the merciless pace of e-mail accumulation in your company’s data center.
Building a Real-World Case for Storage Virtualization
Virtualization has taken the data center by storm, promising huge gains in efficiency and cost effectiveness. However, delivering on virtualization’s promise of enabling IT managers to do more with less is dependent on a host of contributing technologies, from more comprehensive data deduplication to advanced replication-based backup. Get an update on how researchers are pushing the envelope of storage virtualization technology, and find out how you can cash in on compelling ROI advantages over more conventional storage architectures.
Innovations in Storage: Closing Remarks
InformationWeek Contributing Editor and Conference Chairman, Steve Kovsky wraps up the Innovations in Storage Virtual Event
Innovations in Storage: Introductory Welcome
InformationWeek Contributing Editor and Conference Chairman, Steve Kovsky introduces the Innovations in Storage Virtual Event
Opening Keynote with Dr. Kenneth Thibodeau, Director of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
As the nation prepared to usher in its 44th president, the NARA faced the responsibility of sorting, indexing, protecting, preserving, and providing secure access to the massive volumes of paper and electronic records created by the federal government during the entire Bush administration. NARA enacted an emergency plan to take over parts of the White House storage system and freeze its contents one day prior to the Obama inauguration. This session will describe how the organization is applying the latest innovations in archival technologies to pursue its monumental mission of preserving and safeguarding some of our nation’s most precious and sensitive data.
Platinum Sponsor Presentation: Building Proven Data Protection Strategies
Will traditional data protection applications survive the demands for ultra-high availability and the growing requirements for nearly instantaneous recovery? Join data protection expert Fred Moore and Hugo Patterson as they explore today's backup and recovery strategy options and compare traditional methods. You will also learn what trade-offs are associated with each and more importantly how data deduplication is the disruptive technology that is changing storage economics and impacting data protection decisions and purchases, especially with regard to tape infrastructures.
The State of Enterprise Storage
Continuing to throw precious resources at escalating storage and bandwidth demand isn’t a strategy, it’s a recipe for disaster. Diverse drivers—from environmental concerns to regulation, and from data security to business continuity—mandate a new path. Are you ready? Join Steve Delahunty, senior associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, as he discusses the latest research from Byte & Switch/InformationWeek Analytics, and highlights ways to help you avoid disaster.
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D. Martin, M. Osterman, B. Lefler, J. Hughes & S. Kovsky

Drew Martin
Senior Vice President and CIO
Sony Electronics


Michael Osterman
Principal Analyst
Osterman Research

Betsy Lefler
Deputy Director of Compliance
Piper Jaffray & Co

James Hughes
Chairman, IEEE Security In Storage Workgroup
Sun Fellow and VP/CTO
Sun Microsystems

Steve Kovsky
InformationWeek Contributing Editor


F. Moore & H. Patterson

Fred Moore
President
Horison Information Strategies

Hugo Patterson
CTO
Data Domain


K. Thibodeau, S. Stahl, & P. Travis

Dr. Kenneth Thibodeau
Director of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)


Stephanie Stahl
Executive Editor
InformationWeek Business Technology Network

Paul Travis
Site Editor
ByteandSwitch.com


M. Jones, A. Rajasekar, G. Shulz, R. Floyd, & S. Kovsky

Merritt E. Jones
Chairman
IEEE Technical Committee for Mass Storage


Dr. Arcot Rajasekar
Professor
School of Information and Library Sciences
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Greg Schulz
Founder and Senior Analyst
StorageIO
Author of “The Green and Virtual Data Center”

Ryan Floyd
Founding Member
Storm Ventures

Steve Kovsky
InformationWeek Contributing Editor



S. Delahunty & P. Travis

Steve Delahunty
Senior Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton

Paul Travis
Site Editor
ByteandSwitch.com


Steve Kovsky

Steve Kovsky
InformationWeek Contributing Editor


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Win a $100 American Express Gift Card
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Data Domain
Data Domain® is the leading provider of deduplication storage systems. Over 2,900 companies worldwide have purchased Data Domain systems to reduce storage costs and simplify data management. Data Domain delivers the performance, reliability and scalability to address the data protection and nearline storage needs of enterprises of all sizes. Data Domain products integrate into existing customer infrastructures and are compatible with leading enterprise backup and archive software products.
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Visit our booth to access storage resources, exclusive InformationWeek research, read blogs and articles, invite your colleagues to the show, and submit your valuable feedback in a survey!
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Visit the Support Center to get real-time assistance and technical help on March 25, 2009
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Thawte
Welcome to the thawte booth. For over 12 years we have delivered a wide range of value for money SSL and code signing digital certificate solutions all backed with consistently reliable technical support. Here you will find a range of our product and technical guides which will provide you with an understanding of SSL and practical assistance in implementing our certificates on popular web servers. Be sure to download our guide to Extended Validation the new standard in SSL.
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AutoClone: Fast and Efficient Windows Data Replication Data Sheet on AutoClone, AutoVirt's fast and efficient data replication product.
AutoCloneDataSheet.pdf
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AutoMove Data Migraton Software This data sheet outlines the featuers and technology of AutoVirt's data migration software solution for Windows, AutoMove.
AutoMove_DataSheet.pdf
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AutoVirt - A New Venture Bringing Windows-Based Data Migration to Market This IDC report details AutoVirt's file virutalization and data mobility solution.
http://idcdocserv.com/216560
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AutoVirt Overview Presentation View this powerpoint presentation for an overview of AutoVirt's data mobility software suite.
AutoVirt_Overview_Presentation.pptx
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Certify your Software Integrity with thawte Code Signing Certificates This guide will show you how Code Signing Certificates are used to secure code that can be downloaded from the Internet. You will also learn how these certificates operate with different software platforms.
codesigning_eng.pdf
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Data Migration: How AutoVirt Eliminates the Pain This technology brief looks at how AutoMove leverages storage virtualization to provide a fully-automated data mobility solution.
AutoVirt_TechBrief.pdf
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Data Mobility: Helping You Manage Data Growth This two-page document provides an overview of AutoVirt and AutoVirt's product suite.
AutoVirt_Overview_Document.pdf
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E-Discovery Trends in 2009 New developments in e-discovery will affect enterprise general counsel and compliance officers, law firms serving corporate clients, and IT departments
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=170125
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Extended Validation SSL Certificates Extended Validation SSL delivers the acknowledged industry standard for the highest level of online identity assurance processes for SSL certificate issuance. Find out how the EV standard increases the visibility of authentication status through the use of a green address bar in the latest high security web browsers.
ev_eng.pdf
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Green IT & the Green Gap By speaker Greg Schultz of StorageIO. In going green, you enable a business to grow, diversify, and expand its use of IT -- all of which have economic benefits
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=172627
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Green Storage: How AutoVirt Improves Your Green Profile Read this 3-page paper to learn about how AutoVirt products can help you get rid of energy-innefficient devices and upgrade to more efficient systems.
AutoVirt_tech_brief_green.pdf
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Managing Retention Regulations -
http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweekreports/doc/2008/208402388.pdf
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No-maintenance RAID arrays will deliver more efficiency and higher performance -
http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweekreports/doc/2008/209900647.pdf
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Scalable Storage for Unstructured Data Enabling Scalable Storage Performance, Availability and Capacity for unstructured data and Web 2.0 applications
http://storageio.com/Reports/StorageIO_WP_Jan24_2008.pdf
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Securing your Apache Web Server with a thawte Digital Certificate In this guide we examine the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. We look at how SSL works, how it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure.
apache_eng.pdf
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Securing your Microsoft Internet Information Services (MS IIS) Web Server with a thawte Digital Certificate Learn how you can build customer confidence around Internet security. This guide will explain the various ways in which your business can benefit if you secure your MSIIS server with a Thawte digital certificate.
iis_eng.pdf
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Securing your Online Data Transfer with SSL A guide to understanding SSL certificates, how they operate and their application. By making use of an SSL certificate on your web server, you can securely collect sensitive information online, and increase business by giving your customers confidence that their transactions are safe.
ssl_eng.pdf
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Server-Gated Cryptography Learn about how digital certificates with SGC technology are able to step-up encryption levels for certain browsers to 128-bits. A discussion of the business benefits of deploying SGC certificates is also included.
sgc_eng.pdf
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Storage Virtualization and the Impact of Your Storage Infrastructure -
http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweekreports/doc/2008/208403468.pdf
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Testing Doc
Surveyexamplebehindtab.docx
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The Argument for SSDs: Saving Storage Dollars Solid-state disks, once a cost-prohibitive way to store data, can help IT organizations drive big performance gains while actually lowering costs
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=169582
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The Starter PKI Program This guide will introduce you to our Starter PKI Program, explaining how it works as well as the benefits it offers. We’ll also point you to a dummy company on our Web site where you can “test drive” the Program.
spki_eng.pdf
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VSM Video Video Tutorial: Windows Data Migration Made Easy with Virtualization (7 mins, 29 sec)
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/Features/Video-Tutorial-Windows-Data-Migration-Made-Easy-with-Virtualization.html
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White Paper: IRODS: Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System Reagan Moore and Arcot Rajasekar, Sept. 2008
https://www.irods.org/pubs/DICE_iRODS_White_Paper-08.pdf
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White Paper: Preservation Environment Federation Reagan Moore, Arcot Rajasekar
https://www.irods.org/pubs/DICE_Moore-Preservation_White_Paper-08.pdf
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Attendee Package
Klavs Landberg on data mobility
Klavs Landberg, Founder and CTO of AutoVirt, discusses the challenges of moving and storing data in Windows environments.
The 411 on File Virtualization
Klavs Landberg provides context for file virtualization in the storage industry.

Good day blogosphere.  This is my first-ever post!  I plan to be a regular contributor and will focus on topics related to technology in general.  Initially, I would like to discuss the technologies related to the storage industry, specifically virtualization. 

File virtualization is about adding a level of freedom to the networked file system space that has so far not been there.  This is a functionality that you absolutely need.  It is absolutely complementary to your other virtualization technologies, for pretty much the same reasons – saving money, and freedom of device use versus logical use.

Virtualization is a relatively new word for what in the industry is essentially an ancient concept.  File systems are nothing but a virtualization of disk drives.  This technology has been around since the 1940s.  We have been virtualizing all kinds of things ever since, without ever using that word.  Today, people talk a lot about virtualization, and justifiably so – it is a great concept to describe a very important aspect of computing.  There are different flavors of virtualization that are important today.  Most people, when they use the word virtualization, are thinking about server virtualization or application virtualization – which means running multiple applications on a single piece of hardware, typically in the Windows environment (something that has been happening with UNIX for a long time).  That is the most common meaning of the word today.

Block virtualization is also a very important concept in the storage space.  It’s been talked about and well implemented for about 15 years.  When the storage experts talk about RAID groups, LUNs, LUN carving, or LUN allocation, they’re really talking about virtualizing a bunch of disk drives through a networking scheme that are used to create redundancy, resilience, and flexibility in allocation (like a SAN).  Virtualization is typically used in the context of databases, online transaction processing, 24x7 protection, migration from one set of resources to another, and upgrading from older disk drives with lower capacity to newer disk drives with more capacity in the same storage enclosure. 

There are other kinds of virtualization, of course.  Some people may remember navigational databases.  Essentially, before 1980, all applications that dealt with databases had navigational logic in them that prevented the system administrator or database administrator from reallocating data freely on disk drives, if you did so, you would have to rewrite the applications that did the access.  Relational databases were then introduced, and they virtualized the relationship between the logical data presentation used in the application and the physical data layout as it was present on disks.  This gave the database administrator complete freedom in putting the data where it needed to be, in whatever combinations were needed, without requiring changes to the applications themselves.  Application writers could think about business logic, database administrators could think about disk utilization, and the two of them would get along through the virtualization of a relational database.