Minneapolis / St

Minneapolis / St. Paul Computer Measurement Group

Spring 2009 Conference

“Is your storage efficient? There are many ways to rate your storage, how does yours stack up?”

Date: Friday, March 20th, 2009

Morning session will include lunch.

Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM Includes Lunch Sponsored By Brocade.

Convenient Location:

Nexus Information Systems

http://www.nexusinfosys.com/

6103 Blue Cir. Dr.

Hopkins, MN 55343

Free parking.

The meeting is open to anyone who would like to attend. Cost: n/c

Bring your business cards for the door prize drawings.

Agenda:

08:00 - 08:15 Welcome / Business Meeting

Tom Becchetti, Chairman, Minneapolis-St. Paul CMG

Scott Simenson, Century College

08:15 - 08:30 Nexus Company Overview

08:30 - 09:15 Shawn Yakely - LSI
Manager, Premium Software Business Group

Shawn Yakely is responsible for sales, marketing, training and support of the SVSP product line for HP. He directs the OEM, Client and VAR activities for the Central United States for the Data Management Line of Business. Before joining LSI in March 2005, Mr. Yakely held various management positions in Marketing and Sales with Boulder Corporation, StoreAge Networking Technologies, ProSavvy and John Costanza Institute of Technology.

09:15 - 10:15 Greg Schulz – StorageIO

About Greg Schulz

As founder of the IT industry analyst and consultancy StorageIO (www.storageio.com), Mr. Schulz has worked with various server operating systems along with storage and networking software tools, hardware and services. Greg has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, and storage and capacity planner for various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO. Mr. Schulz has been involved with various storage related organizations including the CMG, SNIA and vendor specific user groups. In addition to being a prolific writer and busy consultant, Greg is sought after speaker at venues around the world as well as the author of the new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center” (Auerbach) and "Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)". Learn more at www.storageio.com/book2.html

10:15 – 10:30 BREAK - Sponsored by ???

10:30 – 11:30 Rob Peglar - Xiotech

Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 32-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is the Treasurer of the SNIA, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative and the Solid State Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. He was one of 30 senior executives worldwide selected for the Network Products 2008 MVP Award.

Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a ten-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems.

Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University’s Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization.

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch - Sponsored by ???

12:30 - 1:45 Bob Cone - Spectralogic

Bob Cone With over 20 years of experience in the storage industry, Bob Cone has worked in Sales, Product Management and Corporate Training. In his current position with Spectra Logic as Product Specialist, Bob focuses primarily on industry challenges relating to data center power and storage security. His experience produces keen insight on other areas which indirectly affect these topics such as compliance and new data reduction technologies. Bob’s noted for his observation on industry trends and calls his audience to examine not only their current situation but what gave rise to that situation and where it will most likely head in the future.

01:45 – 02:00 Break - sponsored by ???

02:15 – 03:15 Rajesh “Sheik” Kapoor – System Engineer Manager NetApp

Rajesh has been with NetApp for 9+ years holding various positions within NetApp. Rajesh currently manages a technical team that is working with some of NetApp’s largest customers in helping set Data Management challenges with NetApp Solutions. Rajesh also helps deliver roadmap presentations to NetApp customers.

03:15 – 4:00 John Ruhoff, Systems Engineer

John Ruhoff, 15 years with Sun Microsystems, Inc., currently supports customers during the sales cycle from an architecture and technical requirements perspective. Previous areas of responsibilities included Data Center specialist, and prior to this was a service delivery account manager at Sun Service. Prior to Sun, John spent a number of years with Data General in their Service Division.

Directions:

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http://www.nexusinfosys.com/contact.asp
6103 Blue Cir. Dr.

Hopkins, MN 55343
(952) 374-5300