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2010 Fujifilm Global Executive IT Summit | February 24 - 27, 2010 | Visit www.tapepower.com/austin2010 to register!

Jon Toigo, Managing Principle, Toigo Partners InternationalHenry Newman, Chief Technology Officer, Instrumental, Inc.Rob Sims, President and CEO, Crossroads Systems, Inc.Greg Schulz, Founder, The StorageIO GroupBrian Monroe, Global Backup and Recovery Analyst, Dell Inc.Gregory Servos, President & COO, Ovation Data Services, Inc.Tab Butler, Director, Media Management, MLB NetworkCindy Grossman, VP Tape and Archive Storage, IBMJohn Menzik, Sr. Technical Director, Enterprise Data Protection Services Operations, AT&TTommy Minyard, PhD, Director of Advanced Computing Systems, Texas Advanced Computing Center, The Univ. of Texas at Austin

Fujifilm is pleased to invite you, our valued customers from North America and Europe to attend our Global IT Executive Summit. This unique event will be focused on critical data protection and the strategic role of advanced nano-technology data tape in a tiered storage environment. Our speaker line-up of distinguished experts and end users will bring you up to date on the latest issues and trends, and share their experiences, best practices and creative solutions to help you achieve your data protection and bottom line objectives. So register now and get the most out of the truly dynamic tape technology of today and tomorrow!

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Fujifilm’s Global IT Executive SummitINTO TOMORROW WITH TAPE STORAGEProtecting the Data... and The Bottom Line!

February 24 -27, 2010 Barton Creek Resort & Spa, Austin, TX


Schedule of EventsWednesday February 24, 2010

7:00pm Welcome Reception and Dinner

Thursday February 25, 2010

Speaker Presentations* - The Forum Amphitheater

9:00am Welcome and Opening Comments - Fujifilm Recording Media USA "You Survived the Great Recession, Now What?"Jon Toigo, Toigo Partners InternationalData storage expert Jon Toigo takes a look at what corporate America’s data centers had to do to simply survive the economic down turn and what they need to do going forward in the critical "c4" areas of compliance, continuity, cost containment and carbon footprint.

"The Evolving Roles of Tape and Disk in the High Performance-Data Protection Environment"Cindy Grossman, IBMData protection, cost, security and efficiency concerns are putting more pressure on managing the day-to-day storage operations of the data center, and it's now more important than ever to understand best practices for backup, long-term storage and data protection. In this session, Cindy Grossman, Vice President, IBM Tape and Archive Systems, will elaborate on current data protection trends, best practices for backup and archive, disk and tape storage strategies, costs of storage, user examples and the future direction for tape storage.

"Library of Congress Case Study: High Reliability Archives, HDD vs. Tape"Henry Newman, Instrumental, Inc.Henry Newman, Storage Architect and www.enterprisestorageforum.com columnist reviews the trade-off between tape and disk for the archive market. The case study he is presenting reviews an actual set of requirements and data from the Library of Congress as part of a workshop the Library held in September on preservation archives.

"The Truth about Tape Storage"Rob Sims, Crossroads Systems, IncThis session provides attendees with simple, yet powerful tips on how to improve an existing storage system. Starting with a brief overview of the history of tape storage, the session quickly provides insight on why tape problems typically solicit finger pointing and not solutions. Instead of resolving tape problems by replacing tape and hoping the problem goes away, this session outlines four specific areas that cause tape problems: human/natural, drives, the systems, and media. What is often considered a hassle can shift to a money-saving exercise that solves defects by addressing the root problem. "Demystifying Storage Hype – Life beyond Buzzword Bingo"Greg Schulz, StorageIOArchive, Backup, BC, Cluster, Cloud, Dedupe, DR, FCoE, iSCSI, IOV, LTO, Object Storage, Optimization, RAID, SSD, Tape, VTL or WAFS among others, do we have a buzzword BINGO yet? Many of these buzzwords, technologies or techniques are fun to talk about, however what’s the business value proposition to your organizations, let alone the caveats? This fast pace session will take a quick look at some common storage hype and realities along with what to keep an eye on today and for the future.


Schedule of EventsThursday February 25, 2010

5:00pm End of Thursday Speaker presentations7:00pm Dinner Reception

Friday February 26, 2010

9:00am Speaker Presentations* - The Forum Amphitheater

Backup and Recovery at Dell— lessons learned"Brian Monroe, Global Backup and Recovery Analyst, Dell Inc.After a 7 year stretch with the University of California, Davis as a Sr. network administrator, Brian joined the Dell team in 2006 right in the middle of its attempt to migrate the entire backup and recovery operation in Austin from a tape library backup solution to a disk-to-tape backup solution. Listen in while Brian unfolds the story of why the decision was made in the first place, the bedlam that ensued, the lessons learned, and how Dell restored peace and order to its backup universe.

"Data Tape Migration, Who, What, When and Why"Gregory Servos, Ovation Data ServicesThis session will provide a thought provoking look into some of the issues, problems, benefits and ways to manage the information life cycle more efficiently, and how to better prepare for the inevitable; a complete data migration. With over 20 years of experience in data migration and data preservations, Gregory Servos will discuss the 5 golden “Ws” that every business should be aware of.

"Our National Pastime All The Time – Archiving for Future Generations"Tab Butler, Major League Baseball NetworkTab Butler, Director of Media Management at MLB Network discusses the challenges of capturing, cataloging, searching, and storing huge amounts of digital video content. With a rigid launch date of 1/1/09, and 50 million households watching, the MLB Network went on the air...but that was only half the story. The bigger challenge was managing up to 10 TB of new and unique digital video content per day, as we recorded the history of the 2009 MLB Season. Tab Butler shares his experiences and creative solutions in solving these challenges.

"Fine Tuning and Finding the Data Storage Sweet Spot "John Menzik, AT&T A return speaker from last year, John will update the group on what has occurred within AT&T with the task of deploying de-duplication, targeted tape usage, VTL, encryption, archiving and large data replications since last year. He will discuss specifically data class and how tape and de-dup are a certainty to be used together with data class being key on getting the most of both solutions and finding the data storage sweet spot.

"Managing Terascale Computing Systems and Petascale Data Archives"Tommy Minyard, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Speaker Panel Discussion and Q&Amoderated by Mark Ferelli, Freelance Journalist, former Editor-in–Chief, Computer Technology ReviewThe Summit will wrap up with the opportunity to engage the speakers in Q&A and address additional topics related to the Speaker presentations.


Schedule of EventsFriday February 26, 2010

12:45pm Individually Selected Afternoon Activities * Golf/Tennis/Spa or * Texas Advanced Computing Center Tour, University of Texas-Austin

7:00pm Farewell Reception and Dinner

Saturday February 27, 2010

8:00am Breakfast and departures

* Speakers subject to change


Guest Speakers Jon William Toigo

Managing Principle, Toigo Partners InternationalJon Toigo is the advocate of the technology consumer and a fanatic for IT products and architecture that deliver on their fundamental business value proposition. Jon is CEO and Managing Principal of Toigo Partners International LLC, an independent consultancy and technical research & analysis firm focused on providing strategic guidance to IT decision makers, and chairman of The Data Management Institute LLC, a professional development organization for those who design, plan, manage and administer storage infrastructure and data assets. He is a 25+ year IT veteran who has worked both as an operative and manager within corporate information systems departments and as a senior consultant with two international systems integrators.

Toigo is also a prolific writer with 14 books and over 2000 articles in the technology trade press to his credit. His technology columns in popular print and on-line media garner a loyal readership of more than 500,000 per month. His presentations are always entertaining and well received.

Cindy GrossmanVice President Tape and Archive Storage Systems, IBMCindy Grossman is vice president for IBM's Tape and Archive Storage Systems, and IBM Tucson Senior Location Executive. She is responsible for all aspects of the tape and archive storage business within IBM including profit and loss, product portfolio investments; go-to-market strategy and execution and customer support. As Senior Location Executive, Ms. Grossman provides leadership to ensure that site and community activities are aligned closely with IBM's strategic initiatives, and spearheads initiatives to improve workplace climate. She also works with state and local elected and appointed officials to execute key priorities of IBM's Governmental Programs department.

Henry NewmanChief Technology Officer, Instrumental, Inc.Mr. Henry Newman has over 28 years of advanced systems architecture and performance analysis expertise in solving the most complex challenges for customers in government, scientific research, and industry around the world. This comprehensive experience includes hardware and software requirements analysis and design; file system and HSM design and optimization; system performance analysis and optimization; storage system architecting; high-performance networking; capacity planning; and hierarchical storage management with the focus on high performance computing and complex UNIX, Linux and Windows environments. Prior to joining Instrumental, Mr. Newman worked at Cray Research in a variety of capacities for over 11 years. His last position was International Technical Support responsible for performance and tuning issues. Mr. Newman has been with Instrumental, which he helped found, since 1992.

Rob SimsPresident and CEO, Crossroads Systems, Inc.As an international storage and data protection veteran with in-depth engineering expertise, Rob joined Crossroads Systems' development and operations team in 1999. Given his recognized success and leadership, Rob rose quickly to the position of President, CEO and Board member. Rob currently leads the Crossroads corporate vision and growth strategy. An accomplished speaker and technologist, Rob brings more than 20 years of hands-on experience in IT design, development and manufacturing, operational management, and engineering. Among his numerous accomplishments, Rob is a recipient of the Technology Industry's 2008 Most Valuable Performers Award and has been honored with numerous industry recognitions including the Stevie Award Top Executive finalist. Prior to joining Crossroads, Rob managed the advanced manufacturing and product test organizations at Kentek Corporation. Rob also managed the manufacturing, engineering and quality organizations at Exabyte. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.


Guest Speakers Tab Butler

Director, Media Management, Major League Baseball NetworkTab Butler joined the Major League Baseball Network in June of 2008 as part of the Engineering and IT Department, chartered with the facility build-out and the January 1, 2009 MLB Network launch. Currently, Tab manages the Media Management team for the MLB Network, and oversees MLB Network Post Production. Tab presents his unique approach to problem solving and convergence within the broadcast media space, with over 20 years of experience in Network TV Broadcast Operations, and 11 years of Sales and Marketing Management. He specialized in sales to Broadcast Networks, Station Groups, Government, and Global 2000 clients. Tab spent 18 years at the NBC Network. He worked for NBC News, NBC Sports, and NBC Operations and Technical Services, and has won two Emmy Awards. Tab has also worked in various capacities for Tektronix (Grass Valley Group), EMC, VideoBank, SeaChange International, and IBRIX.

Greg SchulzFounder, The StorageIO GroupGreg Schulz is founder of the Server and StorageIO, an IT industry advisory and consultancy firm 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, server/storage architect and capacity planner for various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO. In addition to his analyst research and advisory consulting duties, Schulz has published over a thousand articles, tips, reports and white papers and is a sought after popular speaker at events around the world. Greg is also author of the books Resilient Storage Network (Elsevier) and The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC). His blog is at www.storageioblog.com and be found on twitter @storageio.

Gregory G. ServosPresident & COO, Ovation Data Services, Inc.Gregory G. Servos, is President and COO of Ovation Data Services, Inc, a technology service company, based in Houston, Texas, specializing in Digital Data Management, Data Migration and Data Preservation. He previously held the position of Operations Manager for many years, as well as, other areas of responsibility within the company over the past 20 years.

Tommy Minyard, Ph.D. Director of Advanced Computing Systems, Texas Advanced Computing Center - The University of Texas at AustinDr. Minyard is the director of the Advanced Computing Systems group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. His group is responsible for operating and maintaining the center's production systems and infrastructure; ensuring world-class science through HPC leadership; enhancing HPC research using clusters; performing fault tolerance for large-scale cluster environments; and conducting system performance measurement and benchmarking. Dr. Minyard holds a doctorate in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, where he specialized in developing parallel algorithms for simulating high-speed turbulent flows with adaptive, unstructured meshes. While completing his doctoral research in aerospace engineering, Dr. Minyard worked at the NASA Ames Research Center and the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering. After continuing his research at UT Austin as a post-doctorate research assistant, he joined CD-Adapco as a software development specialist to continue his career in computational fluid dynamics. Dr. Minyard returned to UT Austin in 2003 to join the Texas Advanced Computing Center.


REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Please visit www.tapepower.com/austin2010 to complete registration. Registration deadline is Wednesday, December 16th, 2009. All reservation requests for this seminar must be processed through www.tapepower.com/austin2010.

A fee of $3,000.00 will cover all costs of the seminar (round-trip air transportation, airport transfers, accomodations at Barton Creek, breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, 1/2 day recreation and all tax and service charges).

FEE FOR TAPEPOWER PETABYTE MEMBERS: $1,500

TAPEPOWER EXABYTE MEMBERS: FREE

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Fujifilm’s Global IT Executive SummitINTO TOMORROW WITH TAPE STORAGEProtecting the Data... and The Bottom Line!

February 24 -27, 2010 Barton Creek Resort & Spa, Austin, TX

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