Thursday 28 June 2012

Agenda starts to take shape

I have the first news of the 2012 agenda format for our collocated conferences SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World running under the theme ‘Powering the Cloud’ for a second year on the 30th and 31st October 2012.

We are excited to be working with a number of leading analyst houses and independent commentators giving the 2012 program a new look with a series of half-day mini-tracks addressing the key issues and topics affecting most organisations’ IT strategies and needs.

Each of these mini-tracks will focus on a particular subject and be hosted by an analyst representative and feature a mix of vendor, end-user and where relevant SNIA and/or other association content. Each mini-track will close with an open Q&A session for the audience and speakers to exchange views and get questions answered.

Already confirmed are the following analyst sessions:

1 - Big Data and Analytics chaired by Matthew Aslett, Research Manager, Data Management & Analytics, The 451 Group

2 - Cloud Storage and SaaS chaired by Simon Robinson, Research Vice President – Storage, The 451 Group

3 - Converged Infrastructures chaired by John Abbott, Founder & Chief Analyst, The 451 Group

4 - Disaster Recovery Techniques chaired by Josh Krischer, Founder & Principal Analyst, Krischer Associates

5 - Solid State Storage and its Impact of the IT Environments chaired by Randy Kerns, Senior Strategist, Evaluator Group

6 - The impact of Virtualization (VDI & server) on Storage Infrastructure chaired by Leah Schoeb, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group


In addition there will be tracks addressing Next Generation Data Protection, Data Security, and Datacentre Networking – the analysts for these sessions will be announced shortly.

The list of confirmed sponsors for the events continues to grow and includes
Platinum: DataCore
Gold: Brocade, Emulex, Kaspersky, Hitachi Data Systems, Quantum
Silver+: Avere, F5, Fast LTA, Intel, QLogic, LSI, Methode, Riverbed, Rosenberger OSI, Scality, Solarwinds, Veeam, Viking, Virtual Instruments, Xsigo
Silver: Novastor, QNAP, PoINT, qSkils, SmartOptics, Texas Memory Systems

Blog soon.

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