Fred Moore President, Horison, Inc. The Perfect Storm

Fred will illustrate the disruptive trends that are redefining the storage industry from his unique perspective as a leader in innovation for over twenty-five years. Storage Administrators and Capacity Planners are faced with a bewildering set of new storage technology that is emerging which has the potential to reshape the industry by lowering the cost of storage services, while at the same time boosting the performance of storage subsystems and improve their manageability. Face the future of networked storage with Fred as your guide.

Storage virtualization is about implementing a dynamic link between data that is logically presented to a host computer and the physical storage where the data resides. The demands of rationalizing storage management policies and procedures across heterogeneous platforms demands that this link be "virtualized" so that data can be managed on physical disk independent of the capabilities of the host platform. This is not a new idea; there are numerous precedents for storage virtualization in mainframe storage, including IBM's DFSMS volume pooling software and the StorageTek Iceberg's virtual disk hardware capability. In today's world of interconnected open systems that use just-in-time file allocation policies and fixed block I/O, storage virtualization technology has an added role to play. This session will explore the scope of storage virtualization technology for open systems and where it is headed in the near future.

Aside from skilled personnel, data is an organization's most irreplaceable asset. However, data itself is a moving target from the standpoint of disaster recovery planning. This pair of one-hour sessions will familiarize attendees with the concepts, strategies and best practices in data disaster avoidance and recovery. Session 1 will establish the context, discussing the scope of disaster recovery planning and describe how evolving storage technology is challenging traditional DR planning. Session 2 focuses on the state of current storage technology, describing the reality most organization face with mixed topologies, heterogeneous platforms, and the quagmire of multiple protocols.