The Enterprise Storage Scenario

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Tuesday, 02 December 2008
05:15 PM-06:15 PM


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Speakers: Roger W. Cox, Dave Russell
Location: Meeting Room 122
Session Type: Track Session
Track: C

Organizations are beginning to look beyond the traditional tools and vendors for help in meeting their storage requirements. In some cases this means augmenting existing solutions, and in other cases replacing them. Learn what new technologies are available, such as archiving, CDP, SSD disk, duplication, thin provisioning and VTLs, to help you better address your current and the upcoming storage challenges.

Key Issues:

What are the current challenges in storage?
What are the emerging storage hardware technologies?
What are the emerging storage software technologies?

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Wednesday

Wednesday
08:00 AM-09:00 AM

Backup/Recovery Modernization - SPACE STILL AVAILABLE - STOP BY ONE-ON-ONE REGISTRATION

Moderator: Dave Russell
Session Type: Analyst/User Roundtable

Location: Meeting Room 109
ID: AUR4

ONSITE REGISTRATION ONLY - STOP BY ONE-ON-ONE REGISTRATION Come discuss with your peers how new technologies like deduplication, VTLs, CDP, 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.

Thursday

Thursday
03:45 PM-04:30 PM

Town Hall Session — Storage

Speakers: Roger W. Cox, John Monroe, Robert E. Passmore, Dave Russell, Stanley Zaffos
Moderator: David J. Cappuccio
Session Type: Town Hall Sessions

Location: Meeting Room 123
ID: UE6b

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Gartner Town Halls are unique opportunities to ask questions to a broader panel of analysts in each of the selected research areas. These sessions are conducted as open forums, giving attendees the opportunity to ask each panel of experts for their insights into the four big topic areas we have selected for 2008 —Virtualization, IT Operations, Storage and Data Center Facilities.

Friday

Friday
09:15 AM-10:15 AM

When, Where and Why Do I Need a Solid-State Drive?

Speakers: Roger W. Cox, John Monroe
Session Type: Track Session

Location: Meeting Room 122
ID: C8
Track: C

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Inordinately expensive enterprise-grade solid-state disk drives (SSDs) have been used in certain mainframe applications for decades, but the use of NAND-flash-based SSDs in computing is still in its infancy. With recent announcements from major vendors such as EMC and Sun, enterprise-grade SSDs have made much news and have re-entered the decision-making processes of the high-end IT landscapes. This presentation will explore some currently available products, pierce through the hype and provide actionable advice on necessary (or unnecessary) deployments of evolving SSD technologies.

Friday
09:15 AM-10:15 AM

Data Protection in a Server Virtualized World

Speaker: Dave Russell
Session Type: Track Session

Location: Meeting Room 115
ID: E9
Track: E

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Organizations struggle with determining and then implementing the best practices for effectively managing data protection to meet the demanding data availability requirements of users, applications and regulations. As organizations implement server virtualization, data protection plans must be put in place to ensure availability; however, the best approach is anything but clear. Learn about the many options for protecting these new environments and how to determine what is best for your business.