11:00 AM- 11:45 AM ET
Opening Keynote Address:
Blades and Storage - Thin Provisioning for Efficiency

As the number of servers in the data center increases in a blade or virtualized environment, the challenge of allocating the right amount of storage to each application increases exponentially. IT is often left with a lot of "dark" storage for few devices and wasted space and money. This keynote session will address the challenges of provisioning in a "JIT" fashion, and examine how the intersection of virtualization and storage is impacting your storage management decisions.

Moderator: Michael Krieger, VP, Market Experts Group, Ziff Davis Enterprise
Speaker: Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, Focus Consulting

1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Panel Discussion:
Information Lifecycle Management

As the amount of information gathered during the course of running a business increases, so does the challenge of determining how long to keep these vital records - and how to keep them as well. Should e-mail messages in Microsoft Outlook folders be kept or discarded? How do regulatory and governance issues play into how long we keep records? And where should this information be kept? Decisions to backup, archive or store information off-site can confound IT and storage managers alike. We'll discuss these challenges and more during this interactive panel discussion.

Moderator: Charlene O'Hanlon, Senior Editor, Virtual Tradeshows and eSeminars, Ziff Davis Enterprise
Speaker: Howard Silver, Vice President of Engineering, X1
Speaker: John Meyer, Senior Solutions Architect, Datacenter Solutions Practice, Dimension Data N.A.
Speaker: Joseph Martins, Managing Director and Analyst, The Data Mobility Group

** Agenda subject to change prior to show dates **