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Intel is powering the software-defined storage revolution. Our processors, non-volatile memory, and networking technologies are the heartbeat inside today’s intelligent storage solutions from the enterprise to the cloud.

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April 7, 2015

Greetings DSI Attendees,

On behalf of SNIA’s Board of Directors, Technical Council, and Staff, welcome to SNIA’s second annual Data Storage Innovation Conference (DSI).

Intended for IT decision-makers, technology implementers, and those expected to recognize, influence, and support data storage innovation in production IT deployments, DSI will provide insights into new technology areas such as software defined storage, solid state, cloud, and big data, along with many other aspects of data management and network-connected storage.

Our agenda features five tracks of breakout sessions each day, as well an additional track of IDC Analyst Briefings on Wednesday. The breakout sessions cover deployment blueprints, technology innovation, IT case studies, and best practices - offered by industry-recognized experts representing both the IT user and the solution-provider communities. The agenda includes vendor-neutral SNIA Tutorials as well as other analyst perspectives from the Evaluator Group and Demartek.

General sessions will be presented on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. The DSI opening presentation Where to Now? Considerations for Storage in the New Data Center delivered by Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Sr. Analyst, The Evaluator Group, sets the stage for the conference. In addition, don’t miss our other insightful general sessions presented by speakers from Faithlife, the Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation, Microsoft, NEC, Intel, and Blancco. International security and privacy expert Eric Hibbard of Hitachi Data Systems offers his Privacy vs Data Protection overview on Tuesday afternoon and returns on Wednesday to lead a discussion on e-Discovery with representatives of the American Bar Association.

We take this opportunity to thank you and your companies for the time you are committing to spend with us this week. Thank you to our sponsors for helping to underwrite the production of this conference. Please visit their tables in the Innovation Showcase (expo), where we will provide complimentary lunches and evening receptions on Tuesday and Wednesday, and introduce yourselves. Learn more about SNIA by visiting our booth and chatting with representatives of many of our technology communities and workgroups.

We would also like to extend a special thanks to the many subject matter experts, analysts, and others for sharing their valuable experience and insights as speakers. Please take a moment to complete the DSI evaluation surveys which will be e-mailed to you at the end of each day. We take your input very seriously and rely on it as we plan for future events.

Enjoy the Conference.

David DaleChairman,SNIA Board of Directors

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Bill MartinChairman,SNIA Technical Council

Leo LegerExecutive Director,SNIA

Intel is powering the software-defined storage revolution. Our processors, non-volatile memory, and networking technologies are the heartbeat inside today’s intelligent storage solutions from the enterprise to the cloud.

Visit www.intel.com/go/storage, for a look at Intel storage innovation and to learn how we’re driving intelligent storage across the entire ecosystem.

Revolutionizing storage from the inside out.

Copyright © 2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel, the Intel logo, Look Inside., and the Look Inside. logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCETuesday, April 7, 2015Registration Opens .................................................7:30 amContinental Breakfast .............................7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakout Sessions ............................... 8:30 am - 12:20 pmLunch in Innovation Showcase .............12:20 pm - 1:40 pmGeneral Sessions ...................................1:45 pm - 5:25 pmReception in Innovation Showcase ......... 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Wednesday, April 8, 2015Registration Opens .................................................7:30 amContinental Breakfast .............................7:30 am - 8:30 amIntroduction to Day .................................8:30 am - 8:45 amGeneral Sessions ................................ 8:45 am - 12:30 pmLunch in Innovation Showcase .............12:30 pm - 1:40 pmBreakout Sessions ..................................1:45 pm - 5:35 pmReception in Innovation Showcase .......... 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Thursday, April 9, 2015Registration Opens .................................................7:30 amContinental Breakfast .............................7:30 am - 9:00 amBreakout Sessions ................................9:00 am - 12:05 pmConference Concludes .........................................12:05 pm

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iNNoVATioN SHoWCASEThe Innovation Showcase is located in the Grand Ballroom Salons A&B in the convention center. To get there, walk across the hotel lobby toward the convention center. Once you are in the convention center, the Innovation Showcase will be located to the left.

MEDiA AND ANALyST BriEfiNG rooMThe Media and Analyst Briefing room is located in the Bayshore East room just off of the Mezzanine, and is available to registered press and analysts that will be involved in briefings during DSI.

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Solid State Storage(Stevens Creek)

Disaster recovery(San Tomas / Lawrence)

Networking(Winchester)

Security (Cypress)

Storage Management (Lafayette)

8:30 - 9:10

The future of flash in the Data Center: A Crash Course on flash-Based Architectures

and Next-Gen Design

Brian EvansGlobal Director Flash,

HGST

introduction to Data protection: Backup to Tape,

Disk and Beyond

Thomas RiveraSenior Technical Associate,

HDS

Next Generation Storage Networking for Next

Generation Data Centers

Dennis MartinPresident,Demartek

Hackers, Attack Anatomy & Security Trends

Ted HarringtonExecutive Partner,

Independent Security Evaluators

Storage Strategy Development

part 1: Understanding Needs and Developing requirements

Randy KernsSenior Strategist,Evaluator Group

9:15 - 9:55

Application Acceleration Using flash Memory

Saeed RajaDirector of Product Marketing

and Management,SanDisk

Data protection in Transition to the Cloud

David ChapaCTE,

Seagate

Next Generation Low Latency Storage Area Networks

Rupin MohanSenior Manager Strategy and

Planning,Hewlett-Packard

Craig CarlsonSr. Technologist - CTO Office,

QLogic Corporation

Storage Security Best practices

Eric HibbardCTO Security and Privacy,

Hitachi Data Systems

Storage Strategy Development

part 2: Evaluating, planning and Selling the Strategy

Randy KernsSenior Strategist,Evaluator Group

10:00 - 10:40

Accelerating real-Time, Big Data Applications

Bob HansenVP Systems Architecture,

Apeiron Data Systems

Dr in the Cloud

Ashar BaigPresident, Principal Analyst

and Advisor,Analyst Connection

The Continued Evolution of fibre Channel

Mark JonesPresident

FCIA

Securing your Data for the Journey to the Clouds

Liwei RenSenior Software Architect,

Trend Micro

When Data pools Become Data Lakes: Managing and Storing Massive Quantities

of Data

Lance BroellProduct Marketing Manager,

DataDirect Networks

10:40 - 10:55 Break (Mezzanine)

10:55 - 11:35

Solid-State Deployments - recommendations for

poC’s

Russ FellowsSenior Partner,

Evaluator Group

Trends in Data protection

Gideon SenderovDirector Advanced Storage

Products,NEC

SAS: The fabric for Storage Solutions

Marty CzekalskiPresident,

SCSI Trade Association

Greg McSorleyTechnical Bus Dev Manager,

Amphenol, STA Vice President

interoperable Key Management for Storage

Tony CoxDirector Bus. Dev.,

Strategy & Alliances,Cryptsoft

Devops and Storage Management – improving Storage Delivery through Continuous improvement

and Automation

Derek StadnickiPartner,

DiscreteIO

11:40 - 12:20

The SNiA NVM programmingTWG and the

NVM revolution

Walt HubisOwner,

Hubis Technical Associates

vSphere performance

Johnathan PaulSenior R&D Expert,

Siemens Medical Solutions

pCie Shared io

Jeff DodsonHardware Architect,Avago Technologies

implementing Stored-Data Encryption

Michael WillettStorage Security Strategist,

Samsung

How Does the Cloud fit into Active Archiving?

David CerfExecutive President Strategy and Business Development,

Crossroads Systems

7:30 - 8:30 registration opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking (Mezzanine)

tuesday agenda

12:20 - 1:40 Lunch and Networking in innovation Showcase (Grand Ballroom A/B)

1:45 - 1:50 Welcome remarks - David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors

1:50 - 2:15 Where to Now? Considerations for Storage in the New Data Center - Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Sr. Analyst, The Evaluator Group

2:20 - 3:00 More with Less: Hardware and VM orchestration with More Uptime, Less futzing; More performance, Less HardwareRichard Kiene, Principal Engineer, Faithlife

3:05 - 3:45 Software-Defined Storage at Microsoft - Jose Barreto, Principal Program Manager Microsoft

3:45 - 4:00 Break (Mezzanine)

4:00 - 4:40 privacy vs Data protection - Eric Hibbard, CTO Security and Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems

4:45 - 5:25 New Approaches to Challenges facing Enterprise iCT- Gideon Senderov, Director Advanced Storage Products, NEC

5:30 - 7:30 Networking reception in innovation Showcase (Grand Ballroom A/B)

performance(San Tomas / Lawrence)

Cloud Storage (Lafayette)

Solid State Storage (Stevens Creek)

Cold Storage(San Tomas)

Security(Lafayette)

file Systems(Cypress)

Hard Drives(Lawrence)

IDC Analyst Briefings (Winchester)

1:45 - 2:25

Creating Higher performance Solid State

Storage with NVMe

J MetzR&D Engineer,

Cisco

yes, Virginia, There is USB Connectivity for an

LTo Tape Drive!

Mauricio del PradoSenior Engineer,

IBM

Encrypted Storage: Self–Encryption versus

Software Solutions

Michael WillettStorage Security

Strategist,Samsung

SMB remote file protocol

(including SMB 3.x)Jose Barreto

Principal Program Manager,Microsoft

The perennial Hard Disk Drive — The Storage industry Workhorse

Edward Grochowski

Consultant

The flash-Based Array Market

Eric BurgenerResearch Director -

Storage,IDC

2:30 - 3:10

3D rrAM: Towards Next Generation High Capacity

Low Latency Storage Systems

Sylvain DuboisVice President of Strategic Marketing and Business

Development,Crossbar, Inc

Tape Storage for Cold Data Archive and future

TechnologiesOsamu Shimizu

Research Engineer - Recording Media Research

Laboratories; and Hitoshi Noguchi

General Managerfrom

FUJIFILM Corporation

A Customer’s point of View to Self

Encrypting Disks Drives and Software Based

Disk Encryption

Douglas SpindlerIT Instructor,City College

San Francisco

NfS, pNfS and fedfS: A Modern Datacenter

Network protocol

Alex McDonaldNetApp CTO Office,

NetApp

rAiDShield: Characterizing, Monitoring, and

proactively protecting Against Disk failures

Ao MaPrincipal Engineer,

EMC

Adoption and Trends in object Based Storage

Amita PotnisResearch Manager,

IDC

3:25 - 4:05

How fast is fast? Block io performance on a

rAM Disk

Eden KimCEO,

Calypso Testers

optical Storage - The future of Long Term

Data preservation

Doug FergusonSenior Solution Consultant,

Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corporation

optimizing the Enterprise, Lessons

Learned from Deploying private Storage Cloud

David ChristelManager,

Unisys

Bringing HyperScale Computing to the

Enterprise: The Need for Enterprises to overhaul

Their iT Systems

Chirag JogVP of Engineering,MSys and Clogeny

Leveraging Ubiquitous Sensors to predict

failures and Discover Data Center flaws

Teague AlgieSoftware Developer,

Cleversafe

Data protection 2015-2025: fundamental

Strategic Transformation

Phil GoodwinResearch Director,

Storage Systems and Software,

IDC

4:10 - 4:50

Considerations to Accurately Measure Solid State Storage

Systems

Leah SchoebStorage Solutions and Performance Manager,

Intel

Archival Disc Technology

Yasumori Hinocom Panasonic Corporation

Jun Nakano Sony Corporation

Hybrid Cloud Storage with StorSimple

Mike EmardSenior Program Manager

StorSimple,Microsoft

TBA Topic and pending Speaker Confirmation

Health Monitoring and predictive Analytics

to Lower the TCo in a Datacenter

Christian MadsenEngineering Manager; and

Andrei KhurshudovSenior Director

fromSeagate Technology

relating information Governance to Storage

Trends

Sean PikeProgram Director for

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and

eDiscovery,IDC

7:30 - 8:30 registration open - Continental Breakfast and Networking (Mezzanine)

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome Back and What Did We Learn from Day one? Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Analyst, Evaluator Group

8:45 - 9:30 Case Study: How the Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation Modernized Backup - Tonia Williams, CIO & IT Director, Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation

9:35 - 10:15 The Storage revolution - Andrea Nelson, Director of Marketing, Storage Group, Intel

10:15 - 10:30 Break (Mezzanine)

10:30 - 11:45 peering into the e-Discovery Legal Looking Glass - Eric Hibbard, CTO Security and Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems, with Representatives of the American Bar Association

11:50 - 12:30 Data End of Life in the Cloud: Why, When and How? - Fredrik Forslund, Director - Cloud and Data Center Erasure Solutions, Blancco

12:30 - 1:40 Lunch and Networking in the innovation Showcase (Grand Ballroom A/B)

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Hot Topics(Cypress)

3:10 - 3:25 Break (Mezzanine)

Cloud Storage (Lafayette)

5:30 - 7:30 Networking reception in the innovation Showcase (Grand Ballroom A/B)

Advanced Dedupe Data(Stevens Creek)

/etc(San Tomas)

Cloud Storage (Lafayette)

Distributed Storage(Cypress)

Green Storage(Lawrence)

4:55 - 5:35

Advanced Data reduction Concepts

Tom SasProduct Manager,Hewlett-Packard

open Source is Changing Entire industries

Nithya RuffDirector - Open Source Strategy,

SanDisk

Things to Consider When planning for file Services in a

Hybrid Cloud Environment

Bernhard BehnPrincipal Technical Marketing

Engineer,Avere Systems

Massively Scalable file Storage

Philippe NicolasSenior Director, Industry

Strategy,Scality

Storage Systems Can Now Get ENErGy STAr Labels and Why you Should Care

Dennis MartinPresident,Demartek

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iNNoVATioN SHoWCASEThe DSI Innovation Showcase will feature sponsors presenting state–of–the–art technology demos and subject matter experts to address your latest IT planning requirements. Many of SNIA’s Technology Communities will be featured. innovation Showcase hours are:Tuesday: 12:20 - 1:40 and 5:30 - 7:30Wedneday: 12:30 - 1:40 and 5:30 - 7:30

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SNiA TUToriALSWhen you see this: Tutorial, that means that you are attending a vendor-neutral presentation. These educational sessions are developed by vendors, training companies, analysts, consultants, and end-users. The SNIA Tutorials are selected through a proposal submission process, and then go through a peer review period which ensures that they are accurate and vendor-neutral.

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Big Data(Lafayette)

Software Defined Storage(Winchester)

Cloud Storage(Cypress)

performance (Stevens Creek)

Distributed Storage(San Tomas / Lawrence)

9:00 - 9:40

Solving Big Data problems: Storage to the rescue?

John WebsterSenior Partner,

Evaluator Group

Using Software-Defined Storage to provide a

Complete BC, Dr and Data protection

Ibrahim RahmaniDirector of Product Marketing,

DataCore

rethink Cloud Strategies for Cost Effective Enterprise

Storage Management

Lazarus VekiaridesCTO and Co-founder,

ClearSky Data

flash Cache in the Data Center-The future is Now

Wayne LamChairman/CEO,

Cirrus Data Systems

Using Leading-Edge Building Blocks to

Virtual Deploy Scale-out Data infrastructure

Craig DunwoodyCTO,

GraphStream Incorporated

9:45 - 10:25

Why Scale-out Big Data Apps Need A New Scale-out

Storage

Rob WhiteleyVice President, Marketing,

Hedvig

Software Defined Storage at the Speed of flash

Carlos CarreroTechnical Product Manager,

Symantec

Rajagopal VaideeswaranPrincipal Software Engineer,

Symantec

Whoever owns the Data owns the Customer

Luke BehnkeVice President Products,

Bitcasa

Lies, Damn Lies, and performance Metrics

Barry CooksVice President of Engineering,

Virtual Instruments

is rAM the future of Enterprise Storage? Using Distributed fault Tolerant

Memory in Virtualized Data Centers

Woon JungSenior Software Engineer,

PernixData

10:25 - 10:40 Break (Mezzanine)

10:40 - 11:20

Scaling Splunk Log Analytics without the Storage Headaches

Veda ShankarTechnical Marketing Manager,

Red Hat

Deploying VDi with Software-Defined Storage and Hyper-convergence

Michael LetschinDirector of Product

Management Solutions,Nexenta

overcoming the Challenges of Storage Scale and Cost

Rob McCammonDirector of Product

Management,Cleversafe

The Buzz About flash Storage and Why

performance Testing is Critical:

How to implement SNiA flash Storage Testing

Methodologies for real-World Environments

Peter MurrayMarketing Director,

Load DynamiX

Next Generation Data Centers: Hyperconverged Architectures impact on

Storage

Mark OConnellDistinguished Engineer,

EMC

11:25 - 12:05

protecting Data in the Big Data World

Thomas RiveraSenior Technical Associate,

HDS

Take a Technical Deep Dive into Hyper-convergence and Learn How it Can Simplify iT and Support Various Virtual

Workloads

Kiran SreenivasamurthyDirector of Product

Management,Maxta

object Storage – Key role in future of Big Data

Anil VasudevaPresident and Chief Analyst,

IMEX Research

Utilizing VDBench to perform iDC AfA Testing

Michael AultOracle FlashSystem Consulting Manager,

IBM

Untangled: improve Efficiency with Modern

Cable Choices

Dennis MartinPresident,Demartek

12:05 Conference Concludes

7:30 - 9:00 registration opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking (Mezzanine)

object Storage(Cypress)

TUESDAyWhere to Now? Considerations for Storage in the New Data CenterCamberley Bates, Managing Director and Sr. Analyst, The Evaluator GroupIn the last year we have accelerated, converged, and deconstructed software from hardware, to name some of the changes being implemented in the data center. Where are we headed and what should be considered given the new storage technologies? Where do

flash, hyperconverged, and big data fit — just to name a few. We will take a look at these changes and important planning strategies to keep you ahead of the curve for 2015–16.

More with Less: Hardware and VM orchestration with More Uptime, Less futzing; More performance, Less Hardware richard Kiene, principal Engineer, faithlifeFaithlife was an early adopter of OpenStack in 2013, operating 150+ nodes, but an outage in November, 2014 triggered a set of decisions that have led to improved uptime and performance with less hardware and lower management costs. Struggles with OpenStack had us

looking for alternatives before the outage. One of those alternatives was Joyent’s SmartDataCenter, the open source, Mozilla licensed free software that Joyent uses to run their public cloud. We’d put SmartDataCenter through some tests in the lab, but the outage forced us to ask an interesting question: would it be faster to recover the existing stack, or rebuild it on SmartDataCenter?

This session will detail what we learned from that experience, from building and operating our own private cloud across multiple data centers, and what we’d have done differently if we knew then what we know now.

Software-Defined Storage at Microsoft Jose Barreto, principal program Manager, MicrosoftThe storage industry is going through strategic tectonic shifts. We will walk through the Microsoft’s Software Defined Storage journey – how we got started, what our customers are telling us, where we are now, and how cloud cost and scale inflection points are shaping

the future. We will explore how Microsoft is channeling learnings from hosting some of the largest data centers in the planet towards private cloud storage solutions for service providers and enterprises. We will also cover storage scenarios enabled by the next version of Windows Server around low cost storage on standard hardware, Storage Replica for disaster recovery, Storage QoS, cloud scale resiliency and availability enhancements.

privacy vs Data protection Eric Hibbard, CTo Security and privacy, Hitachi Data SystemsThe terms “privacy” and “data protection” are often used interchangeable, but in reality they can have very different meanings, depending on the jurisdiction or market sector. Some countries use the term “privacy” when they may mean the same thing or refer to the same principles

as what other countries identify as “data protection.” In contrast, “data protection” may be used to mean “information security,” encompassing security measures that protect PII as well as confidential or valuable information, trade secrets, know-how, or similar information assets. Further complicating the situation is the data storage industry’s use of data protection to describe measure such as backups, replication, DR/BC, etc.

As the draft data protection legislation in the European Union (EU) winds its way through the approval process, organizations will be under pressure to understand what is meant with the different flavors of data protection as well as the potential obligations. This session will explore the various facets of data protection and use the new EU General Data Protection Rules as a case study to explore some of the more important requirements and obligations.

New Approaches to Challenges facing Enterprise iCTGideon Senderov, Director Advanced Storage products, NECToday’s approaches to managing and exploiting information and communication technology (ICT) are forcing new solutions to deal with the strategic issues of volume, distance and time. Join NEC to explore new approaches for managing more devices, greater distances,

virtualized management of consolidated and cloud environments.

Approaches discussed will encompass software defined infrastructure with policy automation and device abstraction through virtualization techniques. We will also discuss value creation through big data analysis by analyzing not only currently available data but also not-yet surfaced data that can and will be collected from real world sources such as phones, satellites, personal devices, and medical equipment and point of sale data collection.

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WEDNESDAy Case Study: How the Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation Modernized Backup Tonia Williams, Cio & iT Director, Housing Authority of the Cherokee NationThe Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation (HACN) is dedicated to helping all Cherokee citizens with housing needs, overseeing $28.5 million in federal programs that aid Cherokee citizens with low-income rental housing, senior housing, rental assistance, college housing and

more. HACNs non-federal New Home Construction program helps build affordable homes for Cherokee families. In 2012, when the Housing Authority became a separate entity from the Cherokee Nation, it was faced with the challenge of rebuilding its IT infrastructure from the ground up.

In this informative end-user case study, CIO and IT Director Tonia Williams will discuss how modernizing its backup strategy helped HACN develop an IT infrastructure that would support the current and future needs of the organization, while being mindful of the limited staff and resources available to the team.

As a result of attending this session, attendees will learn about the challenges an organization like HACN faced in attempting to rebuild its IT infrastructure from the ground up. Attendees will also learn why HACN identified a modernized data protection strategy as the starting point and backbone of the rebuild effort, and why organizations faced with a similar challenge should consider doing the same. Lastly, perhaps and most importantly, as a result of attending this session, attendees will learn about the time and cost savings HACN realized as a result of its modernized backup strategy.

The Storage revolution Andrea Nelson, Director of Marketing, Storage Group, intelThere is a storage revolution happening! From the first quantum leap in performance with solid state technology and efficiencies in capacity optimization to creating more intelligent storage through the means of virtualization and software defined storage, the storage industry is drastically

changing and optimizing new products and technologies to consume. How has Intel been helping? Through processor innovations, non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies, and network and fabric. Intel is able to accelerate the move to software-defined storage. Learn more about how the industry is moving to new ways to move and storage data and what Intel is doing with new innovations to support it.

peering into the e-Discovery Legal Looking Glass Eric Hibbard, CTo Security and privacy, Hitachi Data Systems, with representatives of the American Bar AssociationLed by Eric Hibbard, this discussion is sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence (EDDE) Committee of the Section on Science and Technology Law, and consists of legal and technology experts as well as a member of the judiciary. The goal is to continue the cross-pollination between the legal community and the data storage industry by exploring a range of topics that include electronic discovery, current and emerging forms of digital evidence, and legal implications of emerging technology (IoT, cloud computing, software defined solutions, etc.). DSI attendees will have an opportunity to participate in the discussion by offering comments and/or questions.

Data End of Life in the Cloud: Why, When and How?fredrik forslund, Director - Cloud and Data Center Erasure Solutions, BlanccoSecuring client data from day one to end-of-life is crucial for cloud service providers, data centers, system integrators and other stakeholders that are storing or migrating customer data. After a brief regulatory overview on industry leaders, this session discusses how to overcome

challenges with identifying and measuring security in new virtual environments and external and internal cloud providers throughout data lifecycle. The session will also cover when and how secure data erasure can be carried out for diligent data housekeeping in active storage environments at end-of-life, and present a case study of a cloud client using automated data erasure to provide enhanced security for its clients.

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Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Storage solutions designed with Intel® architecture processors meet the needs of enterprise IT, cloud service providers, telco service providers, as well as HPC solutions. Intel architecture processors from the Intel® Atom™ processor C2000 family to the Intel® Xeon® processor family are ideal solutions for intel-ligent storage of all kind. For more information about Intel’s storage solutions, visit www.intel.com/storage.

intel is also participating in DSi as a Contributing Sponsor as an underwriter of our conference shirts.

Microsoft has both real public cloud scale experience and a deep understanding of your traditional infrastructure. That’s the perfect combination to provide the right cloud solution for you. We can adapt to your cloud roadmap and meet your business needs for compliance, security, and high availability. Our hybrid cloud lets you extend your IT team’s existing skills from running on-premises datacenters to Microsoft Azure or a hosting service provider’s datacenter. Our experience in datacenters and cloud enables us to offer a hybrid cloud that gives you the best of both worlds.

You can deploy reliable, high-performance storage infrastructure based on Microsoft technologies by building software defined storage solutions with industry-standard hardware and products like Windows Server or deploy hybrid cloud storage with Microsoft Azure StorSimple to manage data growth while reducing costs and complexity of storage infrastructure.

Ultimately, you need a partner who can run your legacy assets, as well as new cloud assets, on an enterprise level and at enter-prise standards. Only Microsoft has the hard-earned experience and expertise across the enterprise cloud landscape that you can bet your business on.

NEC Corporation of America (NEC) is a leading technology integrator providing solutions that improve the way people work and communicate. We deliver one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of technology solutions and professional services, including server and storage infrastructure, unified communications, optical network systems, microwave radio communications and biomet-ric security. At DSI, NEC will be demonstrating its innovative HYDRAstor scale-out grid storage and SAN storage solutions. Visit NEC booth #P1 or www.necam.com/storage to learn more.

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GoLDCirrus Data Solutions, Inc. (Cirrus Data) is a privately-held developer of enterprise-class technology solutions for automated data management and optimization. Founded in 2011 by brothers Wai and Wayne Lam, storage experts with decades of innovation and success in backup and data recovery, the company employs an elite team of R&D, engineering, and management professionals to drive its vision. Cirrus Data develops market-leading plug-and-play solutions such as the Data Migration Server (DMS) and Data Caching Server (DCS) and holds 21 patents. Powered by unique patented Transactional Data Interface (TDI) technology, Cirrus Data solutions install within minutes for fast, simple, uninterrupted data management with zero downtime to help customers achieve their data optimization goals.

DDN is a leader in massively scalable storage solutions for big data in the cloud. Our unique storage solutions make the ideal Internet infrastructure for high performance, geo-distributed content origins; low-TCO managed services; and secure private clouds. Visit us for the most scalable, intelligent, integrated web and cloud storage solutions.

MSys Technologies is the fastest growing software services company based in Alpharetta, Georgia. MSys provides technology services in storage, cloud computing, big data analytics, internet of things, DevOps, embedded systems, software product development, and quality assurance engineering. In 2014, MSys made a critical leap forward with the acquisition of a strong cloud services company called Clogeny Technologies based in Pune. Clogeny is one of the leading service provider of De-vOps services , Bigdata Analysis and Cloud Computing to start up and product companies.

MSys provides software development services in the storage domain, including software-defined storage, data protection, storage virtualization, file systems, and QA engineering. Storage clients that MSys has served include NetApp, Nimble Storage, DDN, Tintri, Panasas, LSI, etc.

Contact us to learn more on www.msystechnologies.com or write to us on info@msystechnologies.com.

SiLVErOur simple yet powerful software – combined with Dell hardware and services – provide scalable, integrated solutions to drive value

and accelerate results. Whether it’s Windows infrastructure, the cloud and mobile computing, or networks, databases and business intelligence, we dramatically reduce complexity and risk to unlock the power of IT. www.dell.com/software

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Irvine, California, Netlist is the leading provider of high-performance modular memory subsystems to the world’s premier OEMs. Netlist’s patented memory subsystem technologies overcome density, performance, and cost limitations, effectively blending commodity components with their inherent deficiencies into highly reliable, optimized memory solutions.

SMART Modular Technologies is a leader in the design, manufacture and supply of specialty memory and storage solutions provid-ing standard and custom products to today’s leading global OEMs crossing all major electronic industries. These industries include computing, networking, mobile, telecom, printer, storage, automotive, communications and industrial electronics markets.

VARTA Microbattery is one of the world’s leading battery manufacturers. With production facilities and sales subsidiaries worldwide, we supply high-quality battery products to our customers in more than 100 countries. The company is headquartered in Ellwangen, Germany. We develop and produce batteries for all major electrochemical systems and cell geometries. As a global system sup-plier, we are in a position to fulfill our customers’ requirements all over the world.

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CoNTriBUTiNGFor over 70 years, Samsung has been dedicated to making a better world through diverse businesses that today span advanced technology, semiconductors, skyscraper and plant construction, petrochemicals, fashion, medicine, finance, hotels, and more. Our flagship company, Samsung Electronics, leads the global market in high-tech electronics manufacturing and digital media.

SNiA TECHNoLoGy CoMMUNiTy pArTNErSThe Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) promotes cloud storage adoption with open standards that provide vendors and end users with choice, interoperability, and portability. CSI leads as an industry neutral authority on cloud storage environments and is committed to educating vendor and end user communities on cloud storage & industry standardization benefits. Whether you are interested in public clouds, private clouds or hybrid clouds the CSI is interested in hearing from you and invites you to join our growing list of members.

The Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) is responsible for driving the broad adoption of Ethernet-connected storage networking technologies and solutions by creating vendor neutral education materials on Ethernet-connected storage networking technologies, driving market awareness and positioning of the various Ethernet storage technologies, providing industry experts and thought leadership on Ethernet-connected storage networking technologies, and leveraging SNIA and industry events, activities and end-user outreach programs around the globe.

The Green Storage Initiative (GSI) is dedicated to advancing energy efficiency and conservation in all networked storage technologies and minimizing the environmental impact of data storage operations. The GSI’s mission is to establish and maintain the SNIA Emerald™ Program for SNIA Emerald™ Energy Efficiency Measurement and conduct training of SNIA Emerald ™ testers and industry stakeholders; educate the IT industry, vendor community and regulatory bodies on techniques to conserve energy for enterprise storage environments; and provide external advocacy and support of the technical work of the SNIA Green Storage Technical Working Group (TWG).

The Green Storage TWG acts as the primary technical entity for the SNIA to identify, develop, and coordinate technical matters related to energy and cooling of storage networking products.

The Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) is leading the way in understanding and quantifying SSS device and system performance, and is dedicated to fostering the acceptance and growth of Solid State Storage (SSS) in the marketplace. SSSI provides education, performs market outreach, and influences / promotes standards.

The Solid State Storage System Technical Work Group (S4 TWG) was created for the purpose of addressing the unique performance behavior of solid state storage systems. The TWG creates specifications which provide guidance to accurately measure the performance of enterprise arrays as oppose to devices. These specifications are vendor agnostic and support all the solid state storage system technologies of member companies.

The Storage Management Initiative (SMI) unifies the storage industry to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies and aggressively promote them to the storage, networking, and end user communities. SMI gathers and prioritizes industry requirements that help guide SNIA Technical Work Groups to cooperatively develop the Storage Management Initiative Specification - SMI-S - the international storage management standard implemented in over 500 products.

The Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF) has a mission to provide a Conformance Testing Program for the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) and other security related standards of relevance to the Storage Industry. As resources permit, the SSIF also researches, markets and promotes adoption of standards-based storage security solutions, best industry and customer security practices for networked storage infrastructures.

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S4 Technical Work Group

and Green Storage Technical Work Group

www.necam.com/HYDRAstor

• Seamless Scalability from 1 to 165 nodes

• 4 PB/hr Performance & >100PB Capacity

• Erasure-coded Data Resiliency

• Adaptive Multi-generation Grid

• WAN-optimized Replication for DR

Scale-out Deduplication StorageHigh Performance for Backup, Archive and Long Term Data

Visit NEC Booth #P1 for a Live Demo!

www.necam.com/Storage

M-Series SAN Disk Array FamilyFlexibility, Functionality, Rock-solid Reliability, and Support To Meet Today’s Demanding Business Needs!

• Market Leading Energy

Conservation

• Tiered Storage

• SSD

• Advanced Data Protection

• Virtualization

• Scalability

• Easy Installation &

Management

Visit NEC Booth #P1 for a Live Demo!