Friday 14 October 2011

Crazy time!!

Four weeks out from the conferences is what I have come to refer to as the 'crazy time' - it is the period when speakers and sponsors wake up to the fact that their session is looming fast and that they have deadlines to meet (set by we heartless conference organisers).

While each individual looks at their one (or in some cases two or three) pieces we have to look at around some 130 conference sessions crammed into two days and if all our speakers wanted to make changes up to the last minute we would never produce a coherent online agenda let alone meet our print deadlines for the conference guide and other materials......

Rant over.

The agenda is - I believe - pretty much complete - aside form awaiting inputs from two sponsors for their sessions (no names no pack drill) - take a look and see for yourself at http://poweringthecloud.com/full-agenda.

As it is late on a Friday I am keeping this blog short and sharp and will simply add here the choice of SNIA presentations (tutorials) available to you this year.

- Interoperable Cloud Storage with the CDMI Standard
- Deploying Public, Private & Hybrid Storage Clouds
- Enterprise Architecture and the Cloud
- The Business Case for the Cloud
- Cloud Storage Security
- Virtualization - Who, What Why, When?
- The Effective use of Virtualization
- Storage Optimization for Virtual Desktops
- Innovative Application Recovery
- Storage Considerations for Virtual Servers
- Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond
- Advanced Deduplication Concepts
- PCIe SSD Storage Solution
- The File Systems Evolution
- Storage Performance Management
- Benefits of Solid State in Enterprise Storage Systems
- pnFS & NFSv4.2: A File system for Grid, Virtualization & Database
- What are the storage security best practices that will help you with
compliance with regulations like PCI-DSS and the EU Privacy Directive?
- Data Center Evolution and Network Convergence
- Fibre Channel Driving Storage Innovation, Speed and Convergence
- Solving the I/O Bottlenecks in NextGen Data Centers & Cloud Computing
- Five Ways to Lower Datacenter Carbon Footprint
- The Confusion Arising from Converged Multi Hop Topologies etc
- The Role of WAN Optimisation in Cloud Infrastructures

Speak soon.