Conference Tracks
Applying Storage Innovation to Create a Competitive Advantage
Data is growing rapidly across every organization. Is this bad news? Absolutely not! Data provides organizations with the information needed to make the right decisions and to build the right products. It offers the ability to collaborate and share knowledge. As such, it is not the job of IT to arrest the creation or proliferation of data — data growth should be encouraged. But unmitigated and unmanaged data growth is not acceptable. This track will provide advice on best practices on how to manage the growth in storage, to deal with backup and recovery, to cope with the hype and promise of big data and to understand what role the cloud should play in an organization’s storage strategy.
Sessions
Storage Scenario: Approaching the Gateway of a New Era
03 December, 2012 (01:15 PM - 02:15 PM)
Storage has changed dramatically in the last several years. Previous rules and practices may no longer ensure optimum results as organizations seek improved levels of service, agility and availability of their data. Expanded technology options, emerging vendors, and established vendors that deliver new and acquired solutions all bring choices that must be balanced against risk. In the next five years business requirements will push IT to examine new storage capabilities, architectures and improved management techniques in order to address the ever increasing demands for storage. •What business trends will affect storage in the next five years? •What are the pros and cons of the options that will be available for the storage infrastructure of the future? •How will we manage the storage infrastructure in 2017?
Roundtable: Storage Infrastructure Modernization- REPEATED (For end-users only.)(Limit 2 per attendee.)Registration is currently closed for this session. Please go to the session room prior to the start of the session for more details on availability.
03 December, 2012 (05:00 PM - 06:00 PM)
Share with peers your experiences in deploying new storage architectures and technologies, such as thin provisioning, automated storage tiering and solid state drive (SSD), scale-out storage systems and new replication solutions. Plan on sharing pleasant surprises, disappointments and insights into vendor support capabilities. (This session runs twice during the week.)
Big Data Is Coming to Your Data Center
03 December, 2012 (05:00 PM - 06:00 PM)
Big data has been hyped for two years. We've reached a critical mass, and IT organizations are seeing real use cases materialize. If you haven't been asked to support it yet, more than likely you will be. This session is an intro to what big data is, and why IT should care. • What is the Gartner definition of big data, what does a big data use case look like? •What technologies comprise support for big data analytics? •What is the state of the market today and what can you do to be prepared?
To the Point: SSD's Role in Future Storage
04 December, 2012 (10:00 AM - 10:30 AM)
Users and system vendors alike are increasingly relying upon SSDs to improve agility and enhance performance while lowering costs. But SSDs are being deployed in a variety of server or storage side configurations. This session explores where SSDs are being deployed in today’s and tomorrow's storage infrastructures. •Where will SSD reside and what are the benefits of the various SSD deployment options? •What are best practices in configuring SSD into your storage infrastructure? •Where SSDs are being deployed now and how aggressively in the future?
Roundtable: Best Practices for Data Management in the Age of Big Data, Views from the Financial Services Industry(For end-users only.)(Limit 2 per attendee.)Registration is currently closed for this session. Please go to the session room prior to the start of the session for more details on availability.
04 December, 2012 (10:45 AM - 11:45 AM)
Big data is challenging traditional best practices in managing the core data that is critical for revenue generation, risk reduction and efficiency in financial services. Many firms wrestle with project scope, organizational structures, data quality and measuring and communicating progress. We'll provide an opportunity to collaborate with your peers in identifying top challenges and brainstorming solutions. •What are the key challenges financial services firms face in managing the ever increasing volumes, varieties and velocities of data? •How can financial services firms successfully respond to these challenges?
Backup/Recovery: Backing Up the Future
04 December, 2012 (10:45 AM - 11:45 AM)
Many organizations have augmented traditional backup and recovery with the use of snapshot and replication products. Gartner worldwide surveys and end-user inquiries during the past two years have shown a growing interest in bolstering backup with additional data protection capabilities. Sometimes this is done in concert with the backup application that has knowledge of the snapshot or replication activity, and other times these new tools are used independently of a backup product. Gartner has seen a growing interest in and trend toward giving up on conventional backup software altogether. Find out if now is the time to radically update your recovery strategy. •What is the current state of the backup/recovery market and vendors? •What new solutions and techniques can I use in place of traditional backup? •What are the best practices for enhancing my backup practices?
Roundtable: Backup-Recovery Modernization(For end-users only.)(Limit 2 per attendee.)Registration is currently closed for this session. Please go to the session room prior to the start of the session for more details on availability.
04 December, 2012 (03:00 PM - 04:00 PM)
Come discuss with your peers how new technologies like deduplication, VTLs, CDP, the cloud, snapshots and replication can be applied to your existing environment, and how others are also protecting not only traditional corporate data center workloads, but new environments like virtual machines, remote offices and desktop/laptops.
Roundtable:Early Cloud Storage Experiences (For end-users only.)(Limit 2 per attendee.)Registration is currently closed for this session. Please go to the session room prior to the start of the session for more details on availability.
04 December, 2012 (03:00 PM - 04:00 PM)
Share with your peers your experiences with using public cloud storage solutions and in designing, building, deploying and managing private and hybrid cloud storage solutions. Plan on discussing time to deployment, problems, savings realized and your satisfaction with vendor service and support.
Big Data Infrastructure: From Hype to Infrastructure Implementation Reality
04 December, 2012 (03:00 PM - 04:00 PM)
Many IT organizations are facing questions about which infrastructures they should put in place to meet new organizational requirements for big data analytics. Questions abound regarding the right infrastructures, and the data management techniques and approaches to take to manage them. •What technical requirements do big data use cases impose on your data center infrastructure? •Can you use existing infrastructure (server, storage, networks) to support big data use cases? •Is cloud a viable option for big data, and how can it be leveraged?
Understanding Application Workloads Is Understanding SSDs
04 December, 2012 (05:30 PM - 06:30 PM)
Solid-state drives are gaining traction in progressive data centers and being pushed by a variety of new and established vendors. The adoption rates, however, are determined by best understanding data center application workloads. An explanation of the technology dynamics and competitive landscape will clarify the best practices for vendor selection, contract negotiations and deployments. •What are the technology benefits and challenges of SSD in data center environments? •Why do application workloads determine SSD technology and pricing? •What are the IT organization's best practices for SSD technology and vendor selection?
Roundtable:Storage Infrastructure Modernization - REPEAT (For end-users only.)(Limit 2 per attendee.)Registration is currently closed for this session. Please go to the session room prior to the start of the session for more details on availability.
05 December, 2012 (08:00 AM - 08:45 AM)
Share with your peers your experiences in deploying new storage architectures and technologies such as thin-provisioning, automated storage tiering and solid state drive (SSD), scale-out storage systems and new replication solutions. Plan on sharing pleasant surprises, disappointments and insights into vendor support capabilities. (This session runs twice during the week.)
Meeting the Big Data Challenge: A View From the Financial Services Industry
05 December, 2012 (01:45 PM - 02:45 PM)
Banks are besieged with burgeoning volumes, varieties and velocities of data. We examine the threats, opportunities and the implications for data governance, architecture, management and use, including the potential benefits for alternative sources of functionality for both industry and community services. This presentation is targeted to data management professionals from the financial services industry and other industries who want to learn from the experiences coming from the world of banking. •What is big data and its importance in the financial services industry? •What are the opportunities, risks and threats associated with big data in the financial services industry? •What changes to data governance, architecture, management and sourcing are required to receive full value from big data while mitigating costs and risks?
Roundtable:Big Data – Do You Have It, and What Are You Doing About It? (For end-users only.)(Limit 2 per attendee.)Registration is currently closed for this session. Please go to the session room prior to the start of the session for more details on availability.
05 December, 2012 (03:45 PM - 04:45 PM)
Big data is a new term that describes huge volumes of data with complex and varied structure, and special requirements for access, processing, storage, protection and archiving. How are you dealing with big data? Do you have it? Are you treating it differently? What are other organizations doing to address this challenge?
Are Cloud Backup and Archiving Right for You?
05 December, 2012 (03:45 PM - 04:45 PM)
Public cloud storage has opened the door to different cloud-based backup and archiving strategies used to inexpensively manage data off-site. Organizations creating cloud data management strategies must evaluate established and emerging vendors, new pricing models, new technical approaches and their own cultural readiness. This session examines the benefits and risks of deploying backup and archiving in the cloud, the vendors offering solutions today, and the future of on-premises cloud and hybrid solutions •What challenges (technical, operational, procedural and cultural) exist with cloud backup and archiving today? •What’s the state of cloud backup and archive adoption, which organizations are going in this direction and why? •Who are the leading vendors and what are they offering?
Cloud Storage and Gateways Enable “Outside the Data Center Box” Thinking
06 December, 2012 (08:45 AM - 09:45 AM)
Cloud storage gateways provide data center operators with a new implementation paradigm for supplying unstructured and shared data services to customers using public cloud storage. Although the potential to revolutionize data service delivery is intriguing, pragmatic concerns must first be addressed to make a cloud-based implementation practical. This presentation provides a vision and a “What if?” scenario for how and why data centers should consider cloud storage, and identifies the key issues that must be solved. • How can cloud storage enhance the efficiency of data service delivery for large IT organizations? • How do infrastructure and operations change when based on cloud storage and gateways? • What alternatives arise from a cloud storage infrastructure to deliver primary data, disaster recovery and file collaboration services?
Getting Control of Hoards of Old Data
06 December, 2012 (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM)
The pain of managing data growth never disappears — It only seems to get worse. Good management of aging data is an evolution, and the progress is only sparked when organizations reach a tipping point that forces the issue such that they realize it must be done. •Storage innovation is great — How are new storage solutions keeping cost in check? •E-discovery, compliance, archiving, classification: Will software solutions win in the end and how can IT really make this happen? •What is the role of cloud in aging data management?
What Does BYOD Mean to the Backup World?
06 December, 2012 (11:15 AM - 12:15 PM)
The increasing trend of bring your own device (BYOD) is capturing many organizations' attentions from the perspectives of security and mobile device management. It will have meaningful impacts on backup and recovery as well. This session explores those impacts and advises users on how to prepare to protect data on endpoint devices, including laptops, tablets and smartphones. • What is the state of both adoption and technology in the endpoint protection market space? • File sharing services: Can they address data protection, and what is the vision for integrated backup and file sharing? • What are the practical best practices for endpoint protection?
