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10 KEYNOTE PROGRAMME
KEYNOTE THEATRE
The free to attend keynote sessions at Storage Expo bring together the industry's leading independent
experts, analysts and end-users from high profile corporations and take an in-depth look at some of the
latest trends in data storage and information management today.
WEDNESDAY 15TH OCTOBER
10:30-11:00 STORAGE FROM THE GROUND TO THE CLOUD; A ROOT AND BRANCH 13:00-14:00 DATA CLASSIFICATION: CAN ANYONE REALLY DO IT?
REVIEW OF STORAGE AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY KEY CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN THIS SESSION:
KEY CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN THIS SESSION: • Managing information lifecycle value
• Cost effective, green and scalable storage infrastructure • Meeting retention, discovery and recovery needs
• Implementing and migrating to new high speed SAN • Determining appropriate classification schemes
• Future proofing data storage
Data classification is the categorisation of data based on
The Royal Horticultural Society annual shows are as technical, administrative, legal and economic drivers.
synonymous with the British summer as rainy picnics and Optimised classification allows for tiering, access control,
losing at cricket. Behind the scenes the RHS has vast accurate retention and archiving scheduling, streamlined
amounts of data, over 200,000 botanical images of retrieval and discovery, and policies should be constructed
50Meg+, and a library dating back 200 hundred years that with both business and technical considerations in mind. This
needs to be digitised. The challenge for the RHS has been to session explores the criteria and policies that should be in
implement a network that is energy efficient, able to grow place to assure coherent classification with respect to
with the data burden, and provide sound availability and information value as it passes through its lifecycle, advises
disaster recovery – whilst being cost effective. Addressing on categorisation schemes that meet business
many of the issues that all companies face, in this session requirements, and explores why most organisations struggle
you will learn how history is being captured and preserved – to tag information correctly for optimal use in the future.
whilst keeping an eye on the technology, capabilities and Chair: Theresa Regli, Principal, CMS-Watch
needs of the future. Speakers: Bob Plumridge, Member of the Board of Directors,
Speaker: Martin Taylor, Converged Network Manager, SNIA Europe
Royal Horticultural Society Edward Wood, Director of Information Services,
House of Commons Library
11:30-12:45 ARCHITECTING FOR EFFICIENCY
KEY CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN THIS SESSION: 14:15-15:30 IMPROVING ASSET UTILISATION WITH VIRTUALISATION
• Reducing storage costs KEY CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN THIS SESSION:
• Growing storage with your needs • Virtualisation for servers and other electronic assets
• Understanding the rise of cloud computing • Understanding financial implications of
implementing virtualisation
With data storage volumes still growing at over 50% per • Optimising current assets
annum, the need for efficient storage architecture has never
been greater. Aside from the capital invested in storage-ware Virtualisation has seen a dramatic adoption in recent years,
procurement, increased data storage equates to significant and the qualitative benefits of flexibility, recoverability and
energy utilisation, with a corresponding cost and carbon assurance are well known. Exploring the benefits of
footprint burden. In this session, representatives of six of the separating the physical configuration from application, this
leading storage companies in the world will discuss their session explores how virtualisation can deliver benefits to
interpretation of the drive for efficient architecture, how your company across all electronic assets in your global
hardware and running costs can be optimised, and explore network – and seeks to quantify the benefits to your
the hype around cloud computing and emerging technologies organisation in terms of provisioning and cost.
that may radically change the way that business operates. Chair: John Abbott, Chief Analyst, The 451 Group
Chair: Jon Collins, Service Director, Freeform Dynamics Speakers: Jon Hutchings, Senior Systems Engineer,
Speakers: Adam Thew, Storageworks Director for UK&I, HP Network Systems Management Services, Oxford University
Bob Maness, VP Worldwide Marketing, Pillar Data Systems Richard Gough, IT Operations Manager, The Wellcome Trust
Ian Masters, UK Sales and Marketing Director, Steven Shaw, IT Manager, British Horseracing Authority
Double-Take Software Dr Zafar Chaudry, Director of Information Management and
Bob Plumridge, Director Technical Marketing EMEA, Technology, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation trust
Hitachi Data Systems
John Rollason, Product Marketing Manager EMEA, NetApp
Mark Kenealy, Director Technology Solutions, EMC
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