Hot Topics and Vendor Tutorials

The SNW Europe conference agenda includes a range of general interest sessions that we group under the heading of ‘Hot Topics’. These sessions draw on speakers either from within the industry, those who monitor and observe it or those who work within a complimentary part of the IT sector.  Our 2008 program includes sessions on:

• Considerations and Methodologies for Testing and Evaluating Data Center Products by Brian Garrett of ESG
• Successful Emerging Technologies for IT Infrastructure by Ken Male of TheInfoPro
• How to Purchase Storage by Josh Krischer of Krischer & Associates
• Where does storage fit within the move to EcoEfficient IT? by Simon Robinson of The 451 Group
• Storage as a Service - Realizing the Benefits by Thomas Metzeler of Arados Consulting
• Re-engineering Storage – What does “On Demand” really mean and how do you deliver it? by Andy Norman of GlassHouse
• Anatomy of a Database Attack by Ashley Marshall of Application Security Inc.
• The State of Online Security by Mark Toshack of MessageLabs
• Is Data Deduplication Green? Removing Hype From Reality by Matt Brisse of  Quantum
• Myths and Realities of Green Storage by Larry Freeman of NetApp
• Great Expectations: Are you seeing the Real Benefits of Virtualisation? by Andy Norman of GlassHouse
• Storage considerations in a virtual server environment by Julie Ryan of LSI
• Automatic Data Classification and Categorisation as a 1st Step to Information Lifecycle Management, by Rüdiger Gauglitz of IT Advisory (session in German)

Vendor Tutorials
Vendor tutorials are educational sessions delivered by representatives of some of our sponsors on a particular technology or standard. While these sessions are not guaranteed by the organisers or SNIA Europe to be as wholly impartial as the remainder of the conference agenda sets out to be,  delegates will find these sessions of particular use in studying or comparing particular approaches to your IT business requirements.

Vendor tutorials on the SNW Europe 2008 agenda include sessions from:

Program subject to change without notification.