Keynote and Featured Speakers at SNW Europe 2008 include:

SNW EUROPE 2008 SPEAKER DETAILS

(alphabetically by surname)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W X Y Z

David Abensour, Chief Technical Officer, Agilisys – Session 29D2
David joined Agilisys in 1999 and has since worked on technology strategy, management and delivery for major clients and group companies alike. He worked closely with many of our technology companies in their early stages, for example spending three years with Fluency Voice Technology leading architecture, product definition and operational management before returning to Agilisys. Before Agilisys, David worked in Antarctica, Iceland and Norway maintaining and operating geophysical survey systems. He also worked with SRI International on Natural Language and AI processing software. Before commercial life, David studied and then supervised Computer Science at Cambridge University, doing PhD, MPhil and BA degrees.

Mario Arloth, Head of IT, Management Services Helwig Schmitt GmbH – Session 28D8
In his current position as Head of IT, Mr Arloth has responsibility for planning and implementing new infrastructures, technologies and services, educating and leading the IT team and keeping the high availability of the company’s core services. In addition to his broad range of information technology skills, Mr Arloth holds certificates in SAN, storage and storage virtualisation technology. Mr Arloth studied physics at the university "Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg" in Halle and after graduating with a Diploma began his career as a programmer and technical consultant in a mid-size company.

Gordon Arnold, Chair of the SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum & IBM - Session 29B1
Gordon Arnold serves as the Chair of the SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum, where storage and security meet, where he leads a successful agenda communicating SNIA and SSIF member expertise in data/information security and driving new opportunities to enhance security in the storage industry through education and best practices development At IBM, Gordon is the technical strategy lead for storage software, where he defines strategy and roadmaps for storage software including Information on Demand, security, compliance, data governance, and archive/backup products. Gordon joined IBM through acquisition in 1994. Prior to joining IBM he worked in a variety of technical and development management positions for e-mail and directory integration company Soft-Switch. His focus in IBM has been on large-scale Internet deployments, security, and storage. He was part of the core team that brought to market IBM storage virtualization offerings. Gordon has a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University of Illinois, over 25 years experience in IT products development, and holds the Senior Technical Staff Member grade in IBM.

Christian Bandulet, Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems - Session 29B4
Christian Bandulet is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems working in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a member of the Sun Data Management Ambassador Group Board which is steering the storage engineering and product development teams at Sun Microsystems. He is also member of Sun's worldwide Storage Technical Field Advisory Board. With over 20 years' IT experience he worked as a soft- and hardware engineer in Germany and in the US. His expertise reaches from UNIX kernel development to database engineering. As an acknowledged industry expert Christian has delivered workshops and presentations at many international conferences. Christian has the reputation for taking complex issues and delivering them in a way that makes them easily understood. Christian has written many blueprints, articles and white papers about advanced storage technologies like object storage and grid storage. He's focused on large scale storage projects for key customers, competitive studies, research analysis of advanced technologies and monitoring of trends in the storage and server industry.

Jorre Belpaire, Director Global Sales and Business Development, A-Server - Session 29A6
Jorre Belpaire is Director Global Sales and Business Development at A-Server. He joined A-Server at the beginning of 2008 through the acquisition of iNuron, the data management software company he founded in 2006 and lead as CEO. Jorre brings over 10 years of business and channel development experience to the table. For more than 7 years, he acted as Vice President of International Presales at Ubizen, a pure-play managed security services enterprise of about 1,000 security experts. Jorre helped growing the organization to a 70Mio€ company in revenues before its acquisition by Cybertrust in 2005, now part of Verizon Business. Before Ubizen/Cybertrust, Jorre acted as business consultant for Cimad Consultants, a former IBM Global Services company. He graduated as Master in industrial engineering (Leuven, Belgium) and European Master in Business Information Systems (Lille, France).

Val Bercovici, Office of the CTO, NetApp – Session 28C6
He is responsible for the competitiveness of NetApp’s evolving technical strategy. Working with customers, analysts, and alliance partners, Bercovici helps define NetApp’s vision for the storage and data management markets. Bercovici joined NetApp in 1998 as the first Canadian systems engineer and the first alliance manager for IBM/Lotus; he also helped shape NetApp’s messaging and collaboration strategy. More recently, he pioneered the role of NearStore/compliance/ILM evangelist and led NetApp’s Competitive Advantage team. Prior to joining NetApp, Bercovici worked for Cognos and AT&T (NCR), where he served both the private and public sectors in areas such as operating systems and enterprise resource planning applications development, business intelligence, UNIX database and data warehousing architecture, as well as Microsoft applications infrastructure. Bercovici holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa.

Stefan Boetticher, IT Leiter, Dyckerhoff– Session 29C2
Stefan Bötticher, Diplom Informatiker, studierte an der Technischen Universität Ilmenau Informatik und bringt eine langjährige Erfahrung in der IT mit. Seine Schwerpunkte sind vielfältig und liegen z.B. im Storage Bereich, bei Backup, Archivierung, SAN, Netzwerke und Security. Er ist seit über sieben Jahre bei der Dyckerhoff AG in der Zentralen IT tätig und verantwortet dort u.a. das Backup/Recovery und die Archivierung.

Jamon Bowen, Account Executive, Texas Memory Systems – Session 28C3 & 29D1
Jamon Bowen is the Account Executive for the Financial Industry at Texas Memory Systems. He has been with TMS 5 years. Jamon has extensive engineering experience: he earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and began his career at TMS as a software engineer. Leading a variety of information sessions worldwide and maintaining a strong online presence, Jamon has established himself as a thought leader amongst those in the solid state disk storage community.

Germar Braam, Lead Architect, KPN – Session 28D4
Germar Braam joined KPN in 1999. Right away he started with the hardware/storage team. In 2000 he started to work with fibre channel storage, Compaq HSG80 with a Brocade SAN. Nowadays he leads a group of 5 men with more than forty HP storage units and more than hundred fibre channel switches. Maintaining and driving his Dodge WC51 from the Second World War is his main hobby.

Tom Brierley, EMEA Systems Engineering manager, InMage Systems - Session
28F8
Tom is 25 Year Veteran of the Data Management, Data Protection and Storage Industry.
With an Engineering career spanning StorageTek, Legato Systems, EMC, Securant and NetApp, Tom brings a healthy and humorous perspective on the world of storage, servers and operating systems and offers an exciting insight into a Virtualized Future of Applications, Servers & Storage - as told through his case study presentation.

Matthew Brisse, Director of Business Development, Quantum - Session 28D7 & 29G2
Matthew Brisse serves as the Director of Business Development for Quantum. He joined the company in 2006 and is responsible for Quantum’s business development and technology partnerships. Matthew drives Quantum’s Green Initiatives and serves as the technical liaison to the SNIA and other standards bodies. Matthew currently serves on the board of Directors to SNIA’s DMF forum. Prior to joining Quantum, Matthew was a storage technology strategist for the Office of the CTO for Dell. He was on the board of directors for the SNIA for the past 4 years. Matthew is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds a number of storage related patents. He has over 25 years of storage-related experience.

Frank Bunn, member of the board of directors SNIA Europe & Symantec - Session 29B3
Frank Bunn is Senior Industry Marketing Manager at Symantec Corporation for the EMEA Central Region. In his role he is responsible for the availability and security solutions for the Telecommunications industry. Frank Bunn is also active member of the SNIA European Board of Directors where he is responsible for standardization and information security. Since starting his IT career in 1982 he has worked as a trainer, post- and presales system engineer and consultant at Nixdorf Computer, Siemens Nixdorf and Network Systems Corporation. Before joining VERITAS Software in April 2001 (acquired by Symantec Corporation in 2005), he was working as Product Manager at StorageTek, managing and introducing the SAN networking products line to the Central European market. Frank Bunn is a frequent speaker at international IT events, author of technical articles and white papers and co-author of the VERITAS published book ‘Virtual Storage Redefined’.

Mark Carlson, SNIA & Sun Microsystems- Session 28A8
Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Storage Group, has more than 25 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than ten year's experience with Java technology. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is a co-chair of the SNIA Policy working group, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Sun Microsystems on the DMTF Technical Committee as well as the DMTF Board of Directors where he serves as VP of Alliances. Mark was one of the original developers at Redcape Policy Software, Inc., a small, Boulder, CO, startup that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in June 1998.

Jose Carreon – Marketing Director, Security Technologies, brocade – Session Session 29C6
Carreon brings 20 years of computer industry experience 10 in Information Security. Prior to Brocade Carreon led the Security Segment group in Market Development at Sun Microsystems. Carreon held Strategic Marketing positions at Atalla Security Products the Security division of HP. His professional experience includes 4 years as Technical Evangelism Manager Apple Computer. Jose holds a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Chalmers Institute of Technology University of Gothenburg Sweden. He is often invited to speak at US and worldwide forums on Information Security and Data protection.

Walter Carmignani, Infrastructure Transformation Offerings Manager, IBM - Session 28D3
Walter has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years now, starting in Industry Services & Process Consulting, then developing SAP Infrastructure Solution and after that responsible as Server Manager for the Infrastructure of a global customer. Since 2007 he is responsible for Infrastructure solutions first for eastern countries then for North east Europe. He started his carrier as an Engineer in 1975 and joined IBM in 1988, initially as a system engineer, and later moving into a Selling and Consulting role. He has been always focused on customer solutions first by using IBM's portfolio and capability. In his new role he has the position of Sales Leader for Infrastructure Transformation Offering Manager for Enterprise System Customers.

Francesc Casaus, Barcelona City Hall - Session 29D4
20 years as IT Manager, with experience in Mainframe platform, Storage and Server Infrastructure at Barcelona City Hall. Actually, 3 years as Storage Infrastructure Manager.

A J Casamento, Corporate Solutioneer, Brocade – Session 28F6
As Global Solutions Architect at Brocade, AJ Casamento is a 28 year veteran of the IT industry with roots that reach back to the early days at Digital Equipment Corporation. In the last 10 plus years at Brocade he has spent his time with customers helping to architect solution environments to make the best of their data centers.

Dr Zafar Chaudry, Director of Information Management & Technology
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust – Session 29D3
Dr. Chaudry holds a doctorate degree in Medicine from Ross University (a Division of DeVry University, USA), a MSc in Health Care Policy and Management from the University of Birmingham (UK) and a MSc in Information Systems Management from the University of Salford (UK). Dr Chaudry is registered with the UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals as a level 3 Health Informatics Specialist. He is a professional member of the British Medical Association, holds Chartered Status from the British Computer Society, and has been widely published. Zafar has 15+ years of cutting-edge experience in the implementation of healthcare information systems and information technology (IT) in managed care settings spanning acute care hospitals, clinics, multi-specialty group practices and software companies in the USA at Director/CIO level. Zafar has specific expertise in strategic planning, health care policy analysis and development, development and management of innovative knowledge management and health informatics systems; evidence-based medicine, internet / intranet planning and development; Zafar has held a Faculty position at the City Colleges of Chicago. He has also been involved in the development of point-of-care diagnostic software (PEPID, the Portable, Primary and Emergency Informational Database) that has been used at Northwestern, Harvard and McGill Universities. Zafar was appointed in April 2005 as the Director of Information Management and Technology for the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, Europe’s largest provider of women’s healthcare services. Zafar has also been appointed to the NHS Faculty of Health Informatics Board and recognised as a leader in “Business Intelligence” serving as a Board member for Obis Omni (“The UK Business Intelligence Community”).

Gilles Chekroun, Senior Data Center Networking Consultant, Cisco - Session 28B4
Gilles joined Cisco 13 years ago. His background is linked to IBM networking technologies and he started at Cisco as a network design engineer. Later on, Gilles joined the EMEA Consulting group in the IBM team and led many projects in the financial sector. For the last five years, Gilles focuses on Storage, SAN extension technologies for designing and implementing Disaster Recovery Centers and Data Center Technologies like FCoE and others.
He is now a member of the Cisco Emerging Markets - Advanced Technology team. Gilles is also Technical Chair of the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Benelux committee. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Brendan Collins, Vice President, Product Line Management, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - Session 28A1
As Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ vice president of Product Line Management, Brendan Collins assures that Hitachi hard disk drives are innovative, high quality and competitive while meeting the range of customer needs for digital storage. Under his management, Hitachi delivers hard disk drives to enterprise, consumer and electronics, desktop and mobile computing, video and other customers. With more than 20 years of technical and management experience in the disk drive industry, Mr. Collins previously was director of Enterprise Market Development for Seagate Technology, where he focused on developing emerging business opportunities. He came to Seagate through the company’s acquisition of Maxtor Corporation, where he had advanced from senior director to vice president of Marketing, over time addressing the full range of Maxtor’s enterprise, desktop and consumer products. Prior positions also included senior positions in product development and manufacturing engineering at Quantum Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation, the company that had moved Mr. Collins from his native Ireland to Germany and then the United States.

Colin de Cruz, 21st Century Storage Programme Director, BT Global Services - Session 28B2
Colin has over 30 years experience within the communications industry. His earlier roles spanned many areas including the engineering management of Video Conferencing, Media and Broadcast and Business Television products and services. Then during the internet boom he was responsible for e-Business and Applications Hosting product delivery and engineering. After a brief spell in Resource Management establishing Skills Centres and Professional Communities he moved into IT Programme management. Colin currently manages the 21CN Storage Capability programme in BT Global Services, is responsible for rolling out a shared/re-useable infrastructure 'Common Capabilities' model across BT to support it products, solutions and customer bids.

Chris Cummings, Sr. Director, Data Protection Solutions, NetApp – Session 28B1
Chris Cummings leads NetApp's Data Protection Solutions Business, covering disaster recovery, backup, archive, and security solutions. Formerly, Chris was VP of Product Marketing and Product Management at Interwoven, an enterprise content management concern, and held management positions at Elance and Monitor Company.

Marty Czekalski, VP, SCSI Trade Association and Interface & Emerging Architecture Program Manager, Seagate – Session 29C1
Marty Czekalski brings over twenty years of senior engineering management experience in advanced architecture development for Storage and IO subsystem design, ASIC, and Memory Systems. He is currently Sr. Staff Program Manager within Seagate’s Enterprise Market Development Group. Previous industry experience includes engineering management roles at Maxtor, Quantum and Digital Equipment Corporation. Additionally, at Digital Equipment Corp., he was a key member of the Storage Strategy Task Force and the Next Generation I/O Task Force, setting the directions for storage and interface strategy. Mr. Czekalski has participates in multiple interface standards committees and industry storage groups. He was a founding member of the Serial Attached SCSI Working Group during that lead to the development of Serial Attached SCSI. He currently serves as Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the SCSI Trade Association. Mr. Czekalski is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association, active with the T10 committee and the Trusted Computing Group. Mr. Czekalski earned his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his BE degree in Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

David Dale, Office of the CTO, Director of Industry Standards, NetApp & Vice Chairman SNIA - Session 28A5 & 29A4
David Dale is an industry evangelist at NetApp where he drives product marketing initiatives related to NetApp’s iSCSI SAN solutions. With over 20 years experience in the computer industry he also participates in the industry as Chair of the SNIA IP Storage Forum, a regular contributor to industry journals, a frequent participant in IT seminars, and a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events around the globe. David was educated in England, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from the University of London. David frequently blogs at: http://blogs.netapp.com/standards_watch/

Walter Dey, Distinguished System Engineer, Cisco & member of the board of directors, SNIA Europe - Session 28F3
Studied Mathematics and Physics at ETH Zuerich and holds a PhD in High Energy Physics from CERN, Geneva. Walter has spent more than 20 years in the IT and data communication industries; 12 years working for Cisco Advanced Technology Technical Consulting Team as Senior Consulting Engineer / Distinguished System Engineer, covering optical / storage / high-speed networking and data center design. Walter is a member of the Board of Directors of SNIA Europe.

Andreas Erben, IT-Systemadministrator, MB Management service GmbH & Co. KG – Session 29E3
Andreas Erben wurde am 25.5.1978 in Erlangen geboren. Nach dem erfolgreichen Abitur im Jahr 1997 begann er 1998 seine Ausbildung zum Fachinformatiker. Bereits während der Ausbildung legte er diverse Zertifizierungen (Novell, Intel, Microsoft) ab und konnte in diversen Kundenprojekten Erfahrungen in unterschiedlichsten heterogenen Netzwerken sammeln. Seit dem 1.1.2005 ist er als IT-Systemadministrator bei der Martin Bauer Managementservice GmbH in Vestenbergsgreuth angestellt, und betreut die vielfältige Serverlandschaft. Seine Aufgabenschwerpunkte stellen hierbei die Virtualisierung der gesamten Hardwareinfrastruktur, die Erstellung von Backup und Recovery Strategien und die Erarbeitung/Ausbau des Notfallkonzepts dar.

Julius Faubel, Pre-Sales Manager, Overland Storage – Session 29C7
Julius Faubel arbeitet seit 3 Jahren als Presales Manager Central Europe bei Overland Storage. Produktberatung, Produkttraining und die Integration der Overland Storage-Komponenten sind die Schwerpunkte seiner Tätigkeit. Er hat mehr als 25 Jahre Erfahrung in Support, Training und Presales für Massenspeicherprodukte und war bei namhaften System- und Backup-Softwareherstellern beschäftigt. Faubel ist zertifizierter Trainer für Storage-Produkte und Backup-Software verschiedener Hersteller und verfügt über umfangreiches Know-how zu FC-, SCSI- und RAID-Systemen.

Dean Flanders, Head of Informatics, Novartis Research Foundation div. FMI – Session 28C5
Dean Flanders leads the Informatics group at the FMI, which provides IT support, IT infrastructure, and application development support for 300 life science researchers. The IT support area provides comprehensive support and maintenance of an environment with over 350 desktops, laptops, and instrument computers. The IT infrastructure area provides essential services, such as high performance and mass storage, high speed networking, and a scientific computing environment to meet the needs of a demanding research environment. Application development support is provided in order to help deliver strategic software solutions. Dean Flanders is also currently the assembly chair of the Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG), and is actively involved with the Basel Computational Biology Center (BC2).

Frank Fleissgarten, Leiter IT, Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH – Session 28E5
Beruflicher Werdegang: Seit Ende 2000 Leiter der IT bei der Borussia für anfänglich 25 Mitarbeiter am Bökelberg, seit 2003 auch Ausbilder und IHK Prüfer für angehende Fachinformatiker. Seit 2004 Leiter IT im neuen BORUSSIA-PARK Derzeitige Position: Leiter IT für etwa 130 Mitarbeiter (90 Verwaltung/ 40 Sport) und über 250 PC Arbeitsplätzen.

Hans Gunter Festl, Fujitsu Siemens Computers - Session 28G2
Dipl. Phys Dr. Hans Guenter Festl is working for more than 20 years with Fujitsu Siemens Computers and former Siemens Nixdorf. He his responsible for the evaluation, system integration and the third level support of OEM products like tape drives, tape automation and hard disks subsystems.

Larry Freeman, Senior Marketing Manager - Storage Efficiency Solutions, NetApp – Session 29A2 & 29G4
During his 25 career in the data storage industry, Larry has held various Engineering, Sales and Product Management positions with companies such as Data General, Telex Computer Products, NEC, Spectra Logic, and NetApp. A frequent speaker and author, Larry’s current role at NetApp is providing clarity around data storage efficiency techniques, including deduplication. Larry is co-chair of SNIA’s Data Deduplication and Space Reduction Special Interest Group, and is also active in the SNIA Green Storage Initiative.

Brian Garrett, Technical Director, ESG – Session 28G4 & 29G5
Brian Garrett is the Technical Director for ESG Lab, providing independent hands-on validation and analysis of emerging technologies and products in the storage, data management and information security industries. Prior to joining ESG, Brian was a founder and CTO of I/O Integrity, a storage startup. During his career, Mr. Garrett has created and managed world-class embedded development, performance measurement and test organizations at companies including EMC, SANgate and Formation. Mr. Garrett holds a degree in pure Mathematics from Rutgers University and has been awarded nine patents.

Rüdiger Gauglitz, Business Unit Manager, IT Advisory Group – Session 29E6
Rüdiger Gauglitz Dr. Rüdiger Gauglitz ist Business Unit Manager und ILM-Spezialist bei der IT Advisory Group Unternehmensberatung AG. Die IT Advisory Group Unternehmensberatung AG mit Sitz in Neu-Isenburg wurde 2001 gegründet mit der Vision, IT nachhaltig effizient zu machen. Schwerpunkt des Unternehmens ist es, Informationstechnologien zu bewerten und zu optimieren, mit deren Hilfe zentrale Management-Prozesse gesteuert werden. Zu den drei strategischen Geschäftsfeldern der IT Advisory Group zählen IT und Corporate Governance, Business Integration und Systems Management. Das Unternehmen realisierte zahlreiche Projekte in den Branchen Telekommunikation, Finanzen, Versicherung, Pharma, Food, Energie, Automobil, Handel und in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung.

Verena Geisselmann, Steinbuch Computing Center – Session 28C8
Verena Geißelmann hat Angewandte Informatik in Karlsruhe studiert und war Systemadministrator in verschieden Firmen bevor sie zum Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe kam. Seit Mitte 2007 arbeitet sie in der Storage Gruppe des Steinbuch Center for Computing (SCC), betreut dort den SAN Storage und die TSM Umgebung, die über 10000 Tapes in verschiedenen Libraries umfasst. Sie ist eng eingebunden im GridKa Projekt bei der Betreuung der Archivierung von mehreren PetaByes Daten der LHC Beschleuniger am CERN.

Joe Gervais, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Emulex – Session 29D6
Joe Gervais oversees product strategy for networking products within Emulex’s Intelligent Networking Product line, from product inception and positioning to market entrance. In his role evangelizing FCoE for Emulex, he frequently consults with customers on deployment strategies. In addition, Gervais assesses market trends and customer requirements to provide strategic guidance to Emulex’s management and engineering teams. Gervais holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from California State University, Hayward and a Master of Business Administration in Telecommunications Management from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.

Ruud Groeneveld, Project Manager, KPN – Session 28D4
Ruud Groeneveld is an alumnus from Technical University Delft and is currently Project Manager with KPN. He is has been part of the KPN team since 1976, holding both commercial and technical roles. Ruud has been involved in ICT/IP/Internet activities since 1994 and is one of the founding fathers of the leading Dutch ISP "HetNet". Outside of work, maintaining and driving a 1965 Triumph TR4A is one of his passions.

Jürgen Gunkel, Projektleiter ARD-Hörfunksternpunkt – Session 29C3
Jürgen Gunkel ist heute einer der verantwortlichen Projektmanager für den Betrieb des ARD Sternpunkt Hörfunk. Der Sternpunkt Hörfunk ist zentrale Plattform für die Bereitstellung und Verteilung von Inhalten der unterschiedlichen Länderanstalten für den Sendebetrieb. Nach dem erfolgreichen Studium der Nachrichtentechnik startete Gunkel 1983 als Mitarbeiter der ARD. Während seiner beruflichen Laufbahn arbeitete er als Bild- und Toningenieur, er war unter anderem zuständig für das Corporate Network der ARD und deren Intranet-Angebote.

Keith Hageman, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Protocol Programs – Session 28C1
Keith Hageman is a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Protocol Programs in the Legal and Corporate Affairs group at Microsoft. Keith works with a variety of partners in the IT industry to license and implement protocols and many of Microsoft’s product development groups. Keith has been in the technology industry for over 29+ years, and has spent the past 9+ years at Microsoft working with partners.

Ulrich Hamm, Consulting System Engineer, Data Center, Cisco Systems,
- Sessions 28E2 & 29B6
Ulrich Hamm is responsible for the Data Center Technology Area. This includes Planing, Design and Implementation of Data Center Solutions like: Storage Networking, Ethernet, Optical Networks (DWDM, CDWM), Application Optimization and IO Consolidation. Another focus area is virtualization and IP SAN Solutions iSCSI, FCIP.

Henrik Hansen, Director EMEA Marketing, QLogic – Session 29D7
Henrik Hansen joined QLogic recently and holds the newly created position as Director of Marketing EMEA. His responsibilities are to align and facilitate QLogics OEM & channel marketing activities with corporate marketing to better position the QLogic brand across EMEA. He will also be acting as a key industry and press spokesperson for the company. Hansen joined from LeftHand Networks, where he held the position of Marketing Director for EMEA. Hansen has over 15 years experience in various senior EMEA Marketing Director roles gained within the storage and networking industry including positions at Quantum, Overland, Inktomi and Intel. Hansen is fluent in Danish, English, French and German and has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management in the UK as well as a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree as a telecommunications engineer from the Danish Post & Telegraph.

Dr. Klaus Heihoff, General Manager, HMK Computer Technologies GmbH – Session 28C5

Joined HMK in October 2005
Sales, Technology and Marketing Manager

Enterprise Storage Software and special Storage Hardware
Manufacturer spanning solutions

November 1998 – September 2005 Synstar Data Management GmbH:
Sales Manager Data Management Germany
Member of the German Synstar Management Team
Director Competence Centre Data Management, Member of the Synstar Operation Boards
June 1988 – November 1998 Control Data GmbH:
January 1987 - May 1988 Max-Planck-Institut in Mülheim - Further research work
1976-1986 majored in physics
1986 graduation in physics, Ruhr University Bochum, Max-Planck-Institut for radio chemistry in Mülheim

Frank Herold, Manager Consulting CEE, Quantum- Session 28E3
Frank has over 14 years’ experience in the IT industry. He leads the Consulting Group for the entire Quantum product line across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe. Prior to the merger with Quantum he was with ADIC for a number of years in both consultant and pre-sales roles. Before its time with ADIC Frank worked in development and support in a German software house.

Christian Illmer, Senior Director Business Development, ADVA Optical Networking – Session 28B3
Joined ADVA Optical Networking in 2002 and has made a significant impact on the company’s enterprise strategy. As senior director business development, enterprise, Christian plays a critical role in developing Optical+Ethernet enterprise networks for some of the world’s largest companies. Christian has gathered extensive experience in the telecommunications and IT industries. Prior joining ADVA Optical Networking, he worked for Pandatel AG and Intel, where he held various positions in Sales and Marketing, supporting and consulting global telecom equipment manufacturers with products for wireline and wireless applications. Christian holds a Diplom-Ingenieur Nachrichtentechnik (engineering degree) from the Fachhochschule Cologne, Germany.

Dr Jibbe, Distinguished Engineer, LSI - Session 29F1
Dr. M. K. Jibbe manages the test architect group at LSI Corporation (ESG) in Wichita, Kansas USA and is the acting manager of the Product Certification team at LSI Corporation in India. As an architect lead, Dr. Jibbe and his group define and design the test requirements and test processes for all the LSI Storage products. Dr. Jibbe is the Interoperability Test Architect at LSI Corporation (ESG). In this role, Dr Jibbe’s group verifies that the Engenio Storage products are compliant to different standards, and interoperable with all the 3rd party Vendors supported by LSI Corporation. Also, he defines the test requirements for the Vendor’s self certifications with the Engenio RAID products Dr. Jibbe has been awarded 16 US / Canada patents, 26 others in Patent Pending State, and published over 43 papers in different technical Conferences held in USA and Europe. The patents and papers are related to areas such as hardware development (Chips emulating RAID technology), Modeling, Software development related to RAID technology, protocols and Networks, and different test tools and mechanisms. Dr. M. K. Jibbe is an Adjunct Professor at The Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Dr. Jibbe teaches classes related to hardware simulation, MPP, SCSI protocol, Computer Architecture, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS protocol, Programming Languages and Standards, and other Basic Electrical and Computer engineering classes such as Electromagnetic, Circuit Design and Analysis, and Digital Designs.

Mark Jones, Director of Technical Marketing, Emulex – Session 28G3
Mark Jones joined Emulex in 2002 and serves as director of technical marketing. Mr. Jones has over 20 years of experience in the enterprise server computing industry. Prior to joining Emulex, Mark Jones was product manager of server systems for Unisys. Mr. Jones holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science.

Simon Kastenmuller, Principal Consultant, Fujitsu Siemens Computers - Session 28E1
After training as a bank officer and commercial business administrator, Simon Kastenmüller started with Siemens in 1972, working in an internal computer center. 1980 he switch to Siemens central department "Corporate Business Administration and Organization". His tasks included advising Siemens internal computer centers on computer deployment, with particular reference to efficiency and the optimum use of investment resources, as well as security issues relating to the operation of data processing systems. After spending a year as a specialist consultant within the sales function he worked from 1990 on within Siemens Nixdorf Computers on BS2000 product planning, focusing on basic operating system configurations and system management. Since the start of 2001 he has worked for Fujitsu Siemens Computers' Storage division, where he handles SAN software solutions, watches emerging storage technologies and architects new storage solutions.

Mr Kneif, Head of IT, Deutsche BP – Session 29E4
Mr Knief has been with Deutsche BP for over 11 years working in the Lingen data centre and now serves as the Head of IT. He studied Wirtschaftsinformatik, is 33 years old and married.

Manuel Krautwurst, Geschäftsführer, Distributed Systems GmbH – Session 29E2
Manuel Krautwurst ist Mitbegründer und geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Distributed Systems GmbH in Laer/Münster. Er berät seit 1995 mittelständische Unternehmen und führende Großunternehmen aus dem Handels- und Bankensektor bei Planung und Betrieb von komplexen Infrastrukturumgebungen und ihren sicherheitstechnischen Lösungen. Er kann auf umfangreiche Praxiskenntnisse in den Bereichen Support, Verkaufsunterstützung und Systemberatung durch 10 Jahre engagierter Tätigkeit bei namhaften Softwareherstellern u.a. für Cincom Systems und Sterling Software zurückgreifen.Sein heutiges Aufgabengebiet umfasst die Planung und Umsetzung von Projekten in allen Problemstellungen einer umfassenden, integrierten Sicherheitslösung mit Schwerpunkt Disaster Recovery und Business Continuity.

Josh Krischer, Josch Krischer & Associates – Session 29D5
Josh Krischer is an expert and executive advisor on high-end computing, storage, disaster recovery techniques, and data center consolidation, with over 37 years of experience. Currently doing business through his own independent analyst firm, he was a Research Vice-President at Gartner Inc. between 1998 and 2007. Many large vendors regard him as the most influential mainframe and storage analyst in Europe and one of the most influential world-wide. One of his specialties, which he presented on many Gartner events, is how to purchase storage and negotiate with vendors. Between 2000 and 2005, he handled almost all of Gartner's storage RFPs in the EMEA region, saving customers millions of Euros.

Robin Kuepers, Head of Storage Marketing, EMEA – Session 28G7
Robin Kuepers (1968) is Dell’s Head of Storage Marketing for Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA). He is working at Dell since July 1997. In his role he is responsible for the Storage Center of Competence, who owns the regional Storage marketing and go-to-market strategy for the Dell | EMC, EqualLogic and PowerVault brands. Robin worked in various Marketing and Enterprise Solutions roles within Dell. He was a member of the Dutch Senior Management Team as being the manager of the Advanced Systems Group. Before Dell he worked for seven years at the distribution division from Getronics as marketing & product responsible for Getronics own PC and Server brand. From 1998 to 1990, Robin was with Royal Dutch Telecom (KPN), who acquired Getronics in 2007, as Project Manager for advanced high bandwidth data connection deployments. Robin has a technical background, he studied Electronics.

Mark Lucas, Systems Engineering, BlueArc – Session 29E8
Mark has been working in the storage marketplace with over 20 year’s experience. I have focused on virtualisation and high throughput SAN and NAS applications. In my career I have worked for various major storage manufacturers that included building out technical designs for many blue-chip companies.

Juan R. Loaiza, Senior Vice President, Systems Technologies, Oracle- Session
28F7
Mr. Loaiza has worked in the database development organization at Oracle Corporation since 1988 and has contributed to every release since version 6.
He is in charge of development of mission critical database capabilities including high availability and performance. Mr. Loaiza has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christoph Maier, Technical Consultant & Engineer, Lufthansa Systems AG – Session 29E5
Christoph Maier betreut seit 4 Jahren die Backupumgebung der Lufthansa Systems AG. Neben Planung, Aufbau und Betrieb aller zentralen Backupsysteme gehört auch die Evaluierung , Design, Architektur und Implementieren neuer Technologien zu seinen Aufgaben. Im Rahmen dieser Tätigkeit betreut er seit 2 Jahren auch die CentricStor Umgebung bei der Lufthansa Systems AG.

Ken Male, Founder & CEO, TheInfoPro – Session 28G5 & 29C5
As founder and CEO of TheInfoPro, Ken Male recognized the importance that market intelligence plays in both making sound decisions and understanding the conditions of an IT sector's competitive landscape. In 2001, leveraging over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Ken developed TIP's voice of the customer approach to research. Prior to founding TheInfoPro, Ken held distinguished positions with IT providers and market research firms including Gartner, Giga, Jupiter, DEC, and EMC.

Ashley Marshall, Sales Engineering, Application Security – Session 28G8
Ashley Marshall is Director of EMEA Sales Engineering for Application Security, Inc. In his current role, Ashley is responsible for the strategic integration and deployment for global enterprise customer installations of database security solutions. He also regularly works with customers and auditors to ensure that the testing and assessment functions have been completed for the customized deployments of DbProtect. Prior to joining AppSecInc, Ashley held positions at StreamShield Networks, ITnet and various other IT companies. At ITnet Ashley was responsible for developing future strategies and solutions to meet customer needs within the key areas of e-infrastructure, infrastructure security and mobile computing solutions. Ashley has over fifteen years experience in IT management, IT solution sales, product development, consultancy, solution design, project management, infrastructure design and support. He has presented at regional Oracle and IBM focused user and groups throughout the UK, as well as at Infosec Europe, London.

Michael Marticke, Advisory Systems Engineer, Pillar Data Systems - Session 28A2 & 29A8
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer SAP CTC with 12 years experience as Senior Technical Consultant in the Microsoft, Oracle and SAP space. Another eight years in various technical presales and consulting positions with EMC. Joined Pillar Data in March 2008.

Harry Mason, Director, Industry Marketing for LSI Logic's Storage – Session 29C1
Harry Mason, Director, Industry Marketing for LSI Logic's Storage Components Group, leads LSI’s standards participation activities corporate wide, and participates in several storage related, standards’ activities. Mason has served on the Board of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) and has been the President of the SCSI Trade Association (STA) for each of the past seven years. With over 25 years of storage and semiconductor industry experience, he has been closely involved with numerous industry milestones including the introduction of the industry's first PCI component, the entry of NCR Microelectronics into the merchant semiconductor market and the launch of LSI's host adapters in the indirect sales channel. Mason came to LSI through the company's 1998 acquisition of Symbios Logic. Prior to Symbios Logic, he worked for NCR Microelectronics and Texas Instruments. For these companies, he held various senior positions with responsibilities that ranged from product line management to strategic marketing and served as the business unit director for storage products for a number of years. Mason graduated with a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Thomas Metzeler Arados Consulting – Session 28F4
Thomas Metzeler is a professional IT consultant specialized in the area of information management. Thomas architects solutions to meet the complex strategic and technical challenges of today’s data and storage management. He relies on more than 15 year’s international storage industry experience in defining and implementing business concepts, business requirements, architecture, implementation, service management, auditing, ROI and TCO calculation paired with executive level consulting experience Thomas presents regularly at Industry events on hot topics such as Standardization, Service Management, Data Management, etc. He was a presenter at SNW Europe in 2006 and 2007.

Bert Miemietz, Geschaeftsfuehrer , OSL – Session 29E7
Nach etwa 10 Jahren bei Siemens Nixdorf (dort zuletzt mit Tätigkeitsschwerpunkt massiv-parallele Systeme, Cluster- und Storagelösungen) ist Bert Miemietz seit 2002 Geschäftsführer der OSL Gesellschaft für offene Systemlösungen mbH. Dort ist er zugleich führend an Design und Entwicklung der hostbasierten Speicher-virtualisierungs- und Clustersoftware OSL Storage Cluster beteiligt. Die faszinierenden Möglichkeiten moderner Speicher-Infrastrukturen laden nach seiner Auffassung förmlich dazu ein, vollkommen neue Wege zu gehen und bieten z. B. durch die Integration mit neuartigen Clusterkonzepten ungeahnte Möglichkeiten für zeitgemäße und effektive Betriebskonzepte im Rechenzentrum, vor allen Dingen jedoch für die radikale Vereinfachung von RZ-Alltag und Systemadministration.

Benedikt Moser, Business Development Director, ADVA Optical Networking – Session 29C8
Benedikt Moser joined ADVA Optical Networking in mid 2008 and holds a director position in business development, enterprise EMEA. Benedikt is responsible for the Brocade relation- and partnership within EMEA. Benedikt has a strong banking industry engineering background in various IT sections including optical networking. He used to work for the largest Swiss Bank and held various positions in global engineering and project management. Benedikt holds an IT project manager degree.

Paul Myers, Sales Leader TSM FastBack, IBM Software Group – Session 29F7
Paul been in the IT industry for over 30 years now, starting in Operations, then Programming and ultimately Mainframe Systems Programming roles at the data centres of three end user companies. In 1987 he joined Candle, initially as a pre-sales technician, and later moving into a Sales role. Positions at smaller systems management companies brought with them experience in open systems, and in 1998 he joined IBM Software Group as a Salesman in their Tivoli brand. Originally selling the entire Tivoli portfolio, he has specialised in the Storage Management pillar for the last 3 years, and took the role of Sales Leader for TSM FastBack (aka FilesX) in North and East Europe earlier this year.

Nelson Nahum, Fellow, LSI – Session 29B7
Nelson Nahum joined LSI from StoreAge Networking Technologies, where as co-founder and CTO, he was responsible for the vision and strategy of the company, the technical and architectural relationship with OEMs and partners, and the company's patents. He also involved Product Management and Research and Development on ideas for new products and architecture of the software. Nelson is the inventor of Out of Band virtualization and the inventor and software architect for the Advanced Storage Services including the snapshot technology and snapshot based async remote replication. He also defined the focus of SVM 5 on pure software, scalability and security. As a Software Architect, he designed and coded the software of a RAID system compatible with IBM DASD 9337 for AS/400. As a Senior Firmware Engineer, he designed and coded of a mainframe local channel attached 3174L compatible control unit as well as designed the microcode machine, wrote the assembler and implemented the Local Channel adapter protocol. In his current role Nelson will continue to help customer adoption of products based on StoreAge technology as well as drive the roadmap for the StoreAge technology.

Donovan Nickel, VP, Network Attached Storage, Storageworks Division – Session 28C2 & 28G6
Donovan Nickel is vice president of Network Attached Storage (NAS) within HP’s StorageWorks organization, an assignment he began in 2007. The file-based NAS market is an area of significant growth in the IT industry, and this division is responsible to deliver leading NAS solutions to HP’s enterprise customers. Donovan has extensive experience in the IT industry and with HP, having joined the company in 1979. Prior to his current role, Nickel managed the Hardware Systems and Technology Division at HP, with responsibility for the HP9000 and HP Integrity Business Critical Server product lines. Nickel began his career at HP as a hardware development engineer in the Ft. Collins, Colorado, Desktop Computer Division. In 1986, he joined the Integrated Circuits Division, where he led the custom VLSI development programs for a broad range of products across HP, including graphics, microprocessors, networking, semiconductor testers, scanners (optical navigation), and storage. In 1997, he became R&D Director for the Ft. Collins Microprocessor Lab, with responsibility for PA-RISC microprocessor development. Donovan holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Business (Management of Technology).

Philippe Nicolas, Technology Evangelist, Brocade & member of the board of directors SNIA Europe – Session 29B5
Philippe Nicolas is Technology Evangelist dedicated to File Storage at Brocade. He has almost 20 years of experience in data storage and operating systems technologies. Previously, he spent nearly 10 years at VERITAS Software and Symantec, both in technical and technical marketing positions. Prior 1997, he served various technical positions at SGI and Compaq, also in the storage, availability and data-management domain. In parallel, Philippe Nicolas started the SNIA Europe France regional committee in 2001, and he served as Chairman for France since its inception. He also created 2 SNIA Tutorials "Advanced Data Sharing Technologies" early in 2002, presented at every US and European Storage Networking World conference since that time, and "Find and Select the Right File Storage for your Applications" in 2008. He's also a Director member of the SNIA Europe Board of Directors since November 2007 and received in 2005 the "Outstanding Service Award", from the SNIA Europe, for his industry and association contribution.

Andy Norman, SVP, GlassHouse – Sessions 28F5 & 29F5
Andy Norman has over 18 years experience managing people, processes and technology. As the Senior Vice President, Andy is responsible for sales strategy and execution, managing a diverse global team working with some of the largest companies in the world. Prior to moving into this position, Andy led GlassHouse’s international division, focused on seamlessly integrating new offices and services into the company, and was Managing Director for the UK offices. Andy’s experience includes Xyratex and Sagitta Performance Systems, a company he founded and then sold to GlassHouse in 2004. Andy has delivered various presentations at Butler analyst events, Tivoli conferences and Storage Expo. Andy is a graduate of Brunel University with a Bachelors of Science and a Masters in Engineering

Craig Nunes, VP Marketing, 3PAR - Session 28F2
Craig has over sixteen years of accomplished marketing experience. Since arriving at 3PAR in 2000, he has led product marketing and management, developed category focus on Utility Storage, managed lead generation and grown company awareness both domestically and internationally. Under Craig's direction, 3PAR has achieved a reputation as a leader in storage for utility computing. Prior to 3PAR, Craig worked at Hewlett Packard as Senior Director of Platform Marketing for HP's enterprise disk array business. His tenure at HP also included extensive contributions within HP's enterprise UNIX server business, including several years as the Director of Product Management for HP-UX. Craig received Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Robert Ondrus, Group Manager IT & Processes, OSI International Foods GmbH – PLENARY SESSION CUSTOMER KEYNOTE
Robert Ondrus is born at the 31st of March 1968 in Ulm/Donau. He studied computer science and economics at the University of Ulm. After his studies he acted as an executive assistant to the board for the Vater und Sohn Eiselen Stiftung in Ulm. Afterwards he worked as technical coordinator online services for the Danish Egmont Ehapa Verlag in Leinfelden-Echterdingen near Stuttgart. Since the 1st of April 1999 Robert Ondrus is employed as Group Manager IT and Processes at OSI International Foods GmbH in Günzburg. He is responsible for the IT affairs of the American food group Otto and Sons Industries in Europe. Additionally Mr. Ondrus is active in examination boards at different Chambers of Commerce and gives lessons in the field of further education.

Ravi Pendekanti, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Overland – Session 28D2
As Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Overland Storage, Ravi Pendekanti oversees all elements of marketing and sales including product development, corporate marketing, channel marketing, strategic alliances, global sales, OEM sales, and business development. Ravi came to Overland from SGI, where he led the Worldwide Industry and Solutions Marketing, driving solutions into various segments to cover both commercial and research. Prior to SGI, Ravi led the Reference Architectures and Customer Ready Systems marketing at Sun Microsystems. His achievements included initiating and directing the Reference Architecture program at Sun, providing key substantiation to Sun's offerings in major markets. He received the Chairman’s award for his efforts in 2003 as they helped Sun grow business in some critical areas. He also served as the Vice President of Marketing at Intransa, an IP-SAN storage company. Ravi holds a MSCS from Florida Tech and a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Kakatiya University in India.

Stefan Pickert, Sales Manager F5 Data Solutions – Session 28G1
Stefan is responsible for the Central European Market and leading a team of Storage experts out of the F5 Central HQ in Munich. F5 Data Solutions, the former Acopia Networks, was acquired by F5 Networks in August 2007. Prior to F5, Pickert worked for Juniper Networks in 2005 and Packeteer Inc. in 2003 and 2004. In both companies he was the Country Manager for the Central European Territory and developed the Application Delivery Market with new sales strategies by forming a sales team for the different countries. Ideal prepare for the Storage optimization market. He covers more than 12 years experience in the IT market in several management roles.

Bernard Pluhatsch, IT Director, LEONI AG, NetApp – Session 28C4
After studying information technology at the University of Berlin, Mr. Pluhatsch joined Digital Equipment as project leader for computer integrated manufacturing in the software application centre for the manufacturing industry. After that, he concentrated on the topic "right sizing of large data centres" at the beginning of the 1990s and introduced first client-server solutions into some university data centres. From 1995 to 2000, he was head of development for ISDN and DSL routers at BinTec Communications. In 2001, he worked as CTO at a subsidiary of Giesecke & Devrient focusing on secure Internet payment processes. Mr. Pluhatsch has been responsible for the global IT infrastructure at the MDAX-listed company LEONI, one of the world's leading providers of wires, cables and wiring systems, since the beginning of 2002. One of his main topics has been the realisation of high availability solutions for the LEONI data centre as well as for the global network. After studying information technology at the University of Berlin, Mr. Pluhatsch joined Digital Equipment as project leader for computer integrated manufacturing in the software application centre for the manufacturing industry. After that, he concentrated on the topic "right sizing of large data centres" at the beginning of the 1990s and introduced first client-server solutions into some university data centres. From 1995 to 2000, he was head of development for ISDN and DSL routers at BinTec Communications. In 2001, he worked as CTO at a subsidiary of Giesecke & Devrient focusing on secure Internet payment processes. Mr. Pluhatsch has been responsible for the global IT infrastructure at the MDAX-listed company LEONI, one of the world's leading providers of wires, cables and wiring systems, since the beginning of 2002. One of his main topics has been the realisation of high availability solutions for the LEONI data centre as well as for the global network.

Roman Pritzkow, Manager Design & Delivery Infrastructure, Telefónica o2 Germany GmbH & Co. OHG - Session 29C4

Philippe Reynier, Bull StorWay Technologist – Session 29D8
Philippe Reynier has more than 10 years of experience in the storage
domain, and worked previously on networking technologies. At Bull, he has held several positions including architect, senior consultant, and R&D manager for storage products dedicated to the high performance computing market. As technologist, he is currently responsible for defining the technology vision and future directions for Bull's storage business unit. Philippe is Bull's primary representative at SNIA, and has been recently elected chairman of the technical board for the French SNIA committee.

Simon Robinson, Research Director, Storage, The 451 Group. – Session 29G3

Since 1997, Simon has scrutinized developments in the systems and software sectors of the IT industry, and he was among the first analysts to report on the emergence of technologies such as storage virtualization and Web services. Simon has played a key role in the development of The 451's Special Reports, and was a co-author of groundbreaking studies of the storage virtualization, blade server and distributed applications markets. Simon joined The 451 Group shortly after its formation in April 2000. He specializes in identifying emerging trends and technologies in storage management, such as SAN, NAS, storage resource management and IP storage; and enterprise software, specifically applications, middleware and systems management. Prior to joining The 451 Group, he spent three years analyzing the IT industry, first as a reporter with VNU's Internet IT news service and then as Senior Reporter and Deputy News Editor at Computer Reseller News in the UK. Simon has also worked on the city desk at the UK's Press Association. Simon has a degree in Economics from the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

John Rollason, Solutions Marketing, NetApp- Session 28A4
John is Solutions Marketing Manager, EMEA for NetApp focusing on Primary Storage and Virtualisation. He came to NetApp in May 2005 with over 8 years of System Engineering, Business Development and Product Marketing experience within Nortel. John attended The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne gaining an M. Eng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Roland Rosenau, Director of System Engineering EMEA, Data Domain - Session 29A3
Roland joined Data Domain in 2005 as the second employee in Europe. From 2002-2005 he worked as Principal System Engineer at LEGATO which became EMC Software (by acquisition) in 2003. Previous roles include OTG (Online Technology Group; acquired by LEGATO in 2002), a provider of HSM and email archival software; and Smart Storage, a software company providing drivers for CD and DVD-Jukeboxes (acquired by OTG in 2001). Roland studied English, newer history and political sciences.

Julie Ryan, Director of Alliances for LSI & member of the board of directors, SNIA – Session 29A1 & 29F4
Julie Ryan is currently the Director of Alliances for LSI. Julie is a long-time veteran in the computer industry with a focus on storage systems partnerships, product management, and IT Management after graduating cum laude with a B.S. in computer science from Kansas State University in 1981. Julie has published articles in various industry publications and is a member of Leadership Wichita. She is also a certified Project Management Professional. Julie Ryan is currently on the SNIA Board of Directors where she has served since 2004 and also currently on the End User Council advisory board. She was one of the founding members of the SNIA Storage Management Forum (SMF) in 2002, where she held the Business Development, Education, and Secretary chair positions and received the SNIA Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2003.

Claudio de Santi, Senior Technical Leader, Advanced Architectures & Research, Cisco – Session 28B8
Claudio DeSanti is a Senior Technical Leader in the Advanced Architectures & Research group at Cisco. He represents Cisco in several National and International Standards Bodies, such as IETF, IEEE 802.1, ANSI INCITS Technical Committee T11, and in industry associations. He contributes to the development of new principles and concepts and provides highly specialized and authoritative technical leadership in the design and development of complex engineering projects. Claudio is author of several international publications and of four patents. He has received many honor and awards, including the INCITS 2008 Technical Excellence Award, the INCITS 2007 Team Award, and the INCITS 2006 Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management. He has been Chairman of several successful working groups, including the T11 FAIS, FAIS-2, and FC-BaseT working groups, and technical editor of the T11 FC-SP and FC-BaseT standards. He is currently Vice-Chairman of the INCITS T11 Technical Committee, Chairman of the T11 FC-SCM and FC-BB-5 working groups (where FCoE is developed), technical editor of the T11 FC-SP-2 standard and of the IEEE 802.1Qbb standard. He is also the IANA Expert for IETF RFC 4044 and the T11 liaison to IEEE 802.1. His research interests include network protocols, storage networking, routing, and security. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

Chris Santilli, CTO, COPAN Systems – Session 29F6
As co-Founder and CTO of COPAN Systems, Chris brings 25 years of storage system design experience from DEC, StorageTek and Compaq Computers. He has led engineering teams in architecting, development and delivery, beginning with diagnostics and controllers for 14- inch Winchester drives; then the first host-based RAID; the first controller based RAID product at DEC and comprehensive SAN management software. Under his leadership at DEC/Compaq he architected and delivered the industry’s first external SAN management appliance, SANworks Management Appliance. At DEC, Chris was responsible for engineering solutions to meet OEM requirements. His efforts led to a new revenue stream for DEC. Chris holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Colorado Technical University, and a BS in Computer Science from USC.

Thomas Schaeffer, Sales Manager, Double-Take Software – Session 29B8
In sales in the IT market since 1992 and mostly specialized in the storage world developing business in companies as: Acer Computer, EMC, NetApp, HDS, Bakbone and now Sales Manager for the DACH region of Double-Take Software

Marcus Schneider, Director of Storage Product Marketing, Fujitsu Siemens Computers – Session 28B6
Marcus Schneider is Director of Storage Product Marketing at Fujitsu Siemens Computers, based in Munich, Germany. He was appointed to this position in December 2004, having previously held a variety of positions in Corporate Marketing and Product Management with Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Mr Schneider joined Nixdorf AG in 1987 and subsequently held various marketing roles within the former Siemens Nixdorf AG and Siemens AG.

Per Sedihn, Vice Chair SNIA Europe Nordic Committee & ProAct - Session 29A5
Per is the Vice Chair of SNIA Europe Nordic Committee and CTO and Co-Founder of ProAct, a storage integrator in northern Europe. In his role he acts as an advisory consultant on storage and information based management and is responsible for ProAct business development and strategic planning.

Blair Semple, Security Evangelist, NetApp - Session 29B2
With over 10 years of specific storage security experience, Blair is the Education and Alliances Officer for the SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum, and the Storage Security Evangelist at NetApp focused on information security and, more specifically, storage security. He is responsible for delivering global outbound communications on the state of the storage security market, emerging standards for storage security, Introduction to Encryption, the work being done in the IEEE P1619 and other communities. In addition, Blair works directly with NetApp customers defining the requirements, challenges and benefits of storage security along with the value that NetApp solutions bring to this environment. Prior to joining NetApp, Blair was with Kasten Chase in a variety of roles including Technology Officer and Business Development Director. From 1996 - 2004 he was the company's primary interface with the National Security Agency's RASP program. Working together with NSA, Kasten Chase created a multifaceted technology solution that supported over 20,000 users requiring access to classified data via mobile laptops. The RASP solution included both encrypting PCMCIA modems and the first laptop security solution certified by NSA to protect classified information. A large part of Blair’s role involved educating military, intelligence and other government personnel on aspects of storage and communications security for mobile users in the U.S., and around the world. A physics major at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo Canada, Blair has continued his education in information security including having attained both CISSP and ISSEP certifications - the latter credential demonstrating competence in the rigorous requirements for information security engineering and currently held by only 300 or so individuals worldwide.

Wolfgang Singer, IBM - Session 28B5
Wolfgang Singer works for IBM's Systems and Technology Group in Vienna, Austria. He specializes in Storage Virtualization, Network Attached Storage, iSCSI, and advanced technologies. Wolfgang has worked for four years at the International Technical Support Center in Raleigh, is a member of IBM's 'Technical Experts Council', is the author of several books and has submitted patents.

Sol Squire, Managing Director, Data Islandia - Session 2805
Sol is the Managing Director of Data Íslandia specializing in the long-term archival management of digital assets for multinational corporations in 100% green data centres. His background includes 25 years of senior information management positions in IT, global internet services, aviation, and geo-petroleum industries in Europe, East Asia, and North America. He is a published author and has written extensively on international issues in governance, regulatory- and litigation-based information management, and the technical complications of multilingual data management.

Mark Toshack, Senior Analyst, MessageLabs – Session 28F8
After joining the company in 2000, Mark trained as a Malware Analyst and after three years he successfully established and headed-up the Global Anti-Virus Operations Team within MessageLabs. In 2006, Mark became the Product Manager for the MessageLabs core Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam email security services, overseeing the roll-out of many enhancements to the services, including user-level customization for the MessageLabs Anti-Spam quarantine. As a well-respected security analyst within the industry, Mark continues to provide valuable information that ensures MessageLabs stays one-step-ahead of the bad guys and is a regular at industry events such as Virus Bulletin and AVAR, and has been a speaker at many commercial technology events and conferences.

Frank Thomschke, Head of IT, Suedharz Krankenhaus Nordhausen – Session 28E8
Frank Thomschk leitet seit 2004 den Bereich Informationstechnik beim Südharz-Krankenhaus Nordhausen gGmbH. Zuvor war er mehrere Jahre als Softwareentwickler bei der Pentaprisma Technologies GmbH und bei der Ibykus AG in Erfurt tätig. Sein Studium der Wirtschaftsinformatik mit dem Schwerpunkt Medizininformatik absolvierte er an der Technischen Universität Braunschweig.

Steve Tongish, EMEA Marketing Director, Plasmon Data Limited – Session 28A3
Steve has more than 20 years of storage industry experience with a particular focus on the management and archival storage of business information. Having worked for both software and hardware storage vendors, he has a broad perspective on the storage requirements of customers across many diverse industries. He has published many industry and technology articles and white papers on the role of storage technologies in compliance and risk management and is a frequent contributor to European storage and data centre publications. Steve is the EMEA Marketing Director for Plasmon Data Limited based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Marius F. Tudor, SNIA Solid-Sate Storage Initiative (SSSI) MArkeitng Chair & BiTMICRO Networks Inc. – Session 29D1

Mr Tudor serves on the SNIA Solid-State Storage Initiative (SSSI) as the Chair of the Marketing Committee. In the storage corporate world he is the Director of Business Development for BiTMICRO Networks, a position he has held since September 2004. Mr. Tudor joined BiTMICRO in October 2000 as Regional Sales Manager. He was promoted to US Commercial Sales Manager in 2002 and US Sales Manager in 2003, prior to being appointed to his current position. Previously Mr. Tudor held sales and management positions in the financial sector with GMAC and the HSBC Group.

Mark Twomey, EMC Information Protection Consultant, EMC Corporation - Session 28B7
Mark "Zilla" Twomey is an EMC Information Protection Consultant supporting several countries throughout EMEA. Mark has been with EMC for eleven years, having worked with various engineering and advisory roles with EMC's renowned Enterprise Storage Systems and information protection products and services . He works with many Global 1000 data center operations to solve unique information protection challenges within their environments be that environment physical, virtualized or located out in the cloud. Mark studied Electrical Engineering at the Cork Institute in Technology. In Mark's spare time, he devotes himself to a globally recognized blog he founded named Storagezilla http://storagezilla.typepad.com/, which features a broad range of storage, technology, and information protection topics. Mark also has published several papers and posted several videos and podcasts to popular Web 2.0 sites on topics ranging from technology start-ups in Ireland to Information Protection.

Romain Waigand, Geschäftsführer Hirschtec, Fondsnet - Session 28E4
1999 – 2002 - Studium der Wirtschaftsinformatik an der FH-Karlsruhe
2000 - 2002 - Während des Studiums Gründung der mediazwo AG, dort bis zum
Ausscheiden Vorstand (CTO).
2002 – 2006 - Verkauf der Anteile an der mediazwo AG, beendigung des Studiums ohne Abschluss. Gründung der Firma Waigand IT-Solutions im Mai 2002
2006 – 2008 - Umfirmierung in Firma Hirschtec GmbH & Co. KG und Aufnahme
weiterer Gesellschafter im Dezember 2006, bis heute dort Geschäftsführer

Malcolm Waite, Technical Consultant, Devon & Cornwall Police – Session 28D5
Malcolm has over 20 years of experience as both a customer & supplier of IT services. Prior to joining Devon and Cornwall Police, he worked for ETC as a product specialist, and for other smaller consultancies. Malcolm started his career working in the oil & gas industry. He has pioneered the use of many new technologies for Devon & Cornwall Police, and has a great enthusiasm for making IT operations simpler, cheaper and greener.

Matthias Werner, SNIA Europe & IBM – Session 28B5
Matthias Werner is the IBM Sales Leader for Storage Networking for the CEMAAS Region (Eastern Europe, Middle East, Switzerland and Austria) located in Zurich, Switzerland. He has more than 22 years of experience in IT (customer and vendor roles) and spent the last 16 years of his professional life dealing mostly with storage solutions, including all segments and flavours of data storage like mainframe storage software, RAID disk systems, tape and tape libraries among others. His first involvement with SAN and Fibre Channel Technology was back in 1998 while working at the ITSO in San Jose, CA when he authored an IBM Redbook titled “Tape Future in Fabrics”. Returning to Europe in late 2000, he joined Brocade in the role of a SAN Evangelist and was involved with many events and activities to create and drive the early SAN market across Europe. Later, in 2003, he moved on to take on a role with Inrange/CNT , focusing on SAN extension technology (MAN/WAN) and related solutions (e.g. data mirroring, remote tape vaulting) and drove activities to establish CNT as a player in the Swiss and European storage market. He was a key driver in building an Alliances Management team to ensure an efficient and complete coverage of OEM storage partners across Europe.

S W Worth, SNIA Board of Directors & Microsoft- Sessions 2804 & 29G1
SW Worth is a Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft, and an elected member of the SNIA Board of Directors. From 2002 through 2006 he was the worldwide lead for the SNIA Tutorials. Before joining Microsoft in late 2003, SW Worth was Technical Marketing Manager at Crossroads Systems. From 1991-1999 he was an internal IT consultant with a large integrated electric and gas utility in the northeastern United States. He has a background in environmental engineering, and worked in paper mills in several U.S. states and in France.

Moshe Yanai, Senior Storage Research Expert, IBM Systems and Technology Group - Session 28C7
Moshe Yanai is one of the most influential contributors in the history of the data storage industry. His thirty five years of technical expertise and design innovation are legendary. He has led three major waves of innovation in enterprise data storage, including: using fixed block architecture disks for mainframe storage; developing the Symmetrix high-end storage systems, the first that enabled multiple open system servers to connect to the same storage over SCSI; and finally, the development of the first truly scalable grid storage system, which he developed at XIV Ltd., a startup that was later acquired by IBM. Mr. Yanai’s latest design triumph, the XIV storage racks, are already being installed in major U.S. financial enterprises. In an online transaction processing environment, the XIV systems achieve three times the performance of other high-end storage controllers combined with a breakthrough in simplicity of usage and advanced functionalities which dramatically reduced TCO and improved productivities.