Over 25 Industry Association Sessions to Choose From

For this edition I thought we would take a look at the SNIA presentations and tutorials planned for the 2010 events. As regular visitors will know, the SNIA content gives our conferences a certain advantage over other events, as they guarantee a broad industry, and vendor-independent view of a range of important standards, trends and technologies. These presentations are developed by members of the association along with inputs from end-users and industry analysts and consultants, and the content is reviewed by a group of industry peers to ensure that no bias or individual opinion come through.

The format of our conferences this year has a series of tracks, each opened and closed by carefully selected SNIA presentations. In addition to the SNIA content we also have sessions submitted and presented by the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) along with a panel debate on the topic of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), which continues to attract a lot of attention. The panel session will take place on Wednesday 27th October at 2:00 pm in the keynote theatre.

I have summarised the associations’ sessions in the table below – you can review the full agenda online at www.snweurope.net/agenda_full.php

Track	Title
Data Protection	Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond
Data Protection	Contemporary Data Protection
Data Protection	Understanding Data Deduplication
Data Protection	Long-term Preservation of Digital Information
Cloud Computing	Interoperable Cloud Storage with the CDMI Standard
Cloud Computing	Building the Business Case for Clouds
Cloud Computing	Deploying Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Environments
Virtualization	Storage Virtualization - What, Why, When, Where, How?
Virtualization	Storage Consideration for Virtual Servers
Virtualization	PCI Express Impact on Storage Architectures and Future Data Centers
Virtualization	Trends in Application Recovery
Virtualization	Your storage infrastructure going green? Virtualization can make it greener
Datacenters	Data Center Transformation - Beyond the Hype
Datacenters	pNFS, Parallel Storage for GRID Virtualization and Database Computing
Datacenters	Active Archive: Data Protection for the Modern Data Center
Networking	(FCIA) Ethernet Storage: Next Generation Storage Unification Engine
Networking	(FCIA) Enhancements to Fibre Channel
Networking	Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Networking	Understanding High Availability in the SAN
Networking	Panel Debate: FCoE The Arrival of the new data center
Storage Management	Storage Management Best Practices and Tips
Storage Management	The File Systems Evolution
Storage Management	Tiered File System - without Tiers
Storage Management	Implementing and managing storage virtualization
Storage Technology	Benefits of Solid State Storage in Enterprise Systems
Storage Technology	The benefit of Storage over Ethernet in Scalable Computing Environment.
Storage Technology	Accelerating Applications and File Systems with Solid State Storage

I hope that you will agree that this is a very comprehensive choice of sessions, addressing many of the key issues on the IT agenda today. Remember that the SNIA presentations are only one quarter of our full agenda, with the remainder coming from your peers through a series of in-depth case-studies and a wide range of hot-topics and vendor updates delivered by members of the industry.

Once registered, you will be able to create your own schedule for the event from the online agenda in order to make the most of your time in Frankfurt. I and the entire team look forward to seeing you there.