SNIA CLOUD Storage Summit

Held at the WINTER SYMPOSIUM 2009

There is no doubt that the topic of Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services or Cloud Storage, just to name a few variations, has the attention of many IT professionals, developers, marketeers, press and analysts. Why? Simply because it is rightly or wrongly perceived as a major shift in IT trends. The ability to remotely “borrow” for a fee various IT components, hardware or software, virtualized or real, through a specialized or open interface, is attracting many IT professionals, simple IT users, large corporations or SMB/SME. One can easily foresee the kind of impact it can have on more traditional IT operations in terms of resource management, adaptability and possibly on the benefits for the overall IT spending – but there’s no consensus about what the real benefits are. Storage is amongst the early services proposed by existing Cloud players, services providers and could technology providers, small and very large companies. Many questions already exist about Cloud Storage and other types of Cloud regarding the Enterprise readiness of such solutions, the co-existence of cloud resources with existing assets in the Enterprise, the management of SLA across multiple providers or the integration of different cloud services in a single production environment.

Since our inception in 1997, the SNIA has been addressing some of the hottest storage resource and data management challenges through the development of best practices, educational programs, software and industry standards. Our Winter Symposium was held on January 20-23 in San Jose, CA, representatives of the Storage industry and of the Cloud industry met to discuss and identify key IT industry developments to make Cloud Storage successful in the Enterprise and in other business segments.

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SPECIAL NOTE:  The webex links below will stream playback a recording of the WebEx session presentation, which includes the audio synced with the slides. For some of the webex recordings below it takes a few minutes before you see the slides & hear the audio when you start the playback.

Tuesday 20th January 2008

Time	Topic	Speaker(s)	Slides	Playback
1:00p - 2:00p	Storage Requirements for Cloud Deployments	Clod Barrera, IBM	ppt	webex
2:00p - 3:00p	Security Implications for Cloud Storage	Eric Hibbard, Hitachi	pdf	webex
3:15p - 3:30p	Break
3:30p - 4:30p	XAM and Metadata for Cloud Storage	Mark Carlson, Mark Saussure, SNIA XAM Initiative	pdf	webex
4:30p - 5:30p	Cloud Storage	Jim Zierick, Nirvanix	ppt	webex
5:30p - 6:30p	Cloud Computing Adoption Model	Brett Adam, rPath	ppt	webex

Wednesday 21st January 2008

Time	Topic	Speaker(s)	Slides	Playback
9:30a - 10:30a	Cloud Applications	Raju Vegesna, Zoho		webex
10:30a - 10:45a	Break
10:45a - 11:45a	Software for Building Private Clouds	Philippe Boyon, Active Circle	pdf	webex
11:45a - 1:15p	Lunch
1:15p - 2:15p	SNIA Technical Council Cloud Q&A	SNIA TC Members	ppt	webex
2:15p - 3:15p	Leveraging Traditional Technologies in Non-Traditional Ways	Ben Rockwood, Joyent	pdf	webex
3:15p - 3:30p	Break
3:30p - 4:30p	Cloud Computing Management	Randy Bias, GoGrid	pdf	webex
4:30p - 5:00p	Hadoop	Dhruba Borthakur	pdf	webex
5:00p - 5:30p	Private Storage Clouds	David Slik, Bycast	pdf	webex
5:30p - 6:30p	Cloud Storage	David R. Bernstein, Cisco	pdf	webex

Thursday 22nd January 2008

Time	Topic	Speaker(s)	Slides	Playback
8:30a - 9:30a	The Cloud Storage Market and Trends	Russ Fellows, Evaluator Group	pdf	webex
9:30a - 10:30a	Where cloud storage makes sense for the enterprise (and where it doesn’t)	Andrew Reichman, Forrester	pdf	webex
10:30a - 10:45a	Break
10:45a - 11:45a	Lessons learned from Cloud Storage 1.0 (the SSP days)	John Webster, Illuminata	pdf	webex
11:45a - 1:15p	Lunch
1:15p - 2:15p	Cloud Storage	Jim Baty, Sun Microsystems	pdf	webex
2:15p - 3:15p	Dispersed Storage open source project	Chris Gladwin, Cleversafe	ppt	webex
3:15p - 3:30p	Break
3:30p - 4:30p	Cloud Storage	Sajai Krishnan, Oleg Kiselev and Cameron Bahar, Parascale	pdf	webex
4:30p - 5:30p		Analyst Panel Discussion	N/A	N/A
6:00p - 7:00p	Cloud Storage BOF	Open Discussion and Q&A	N/A	N/A

Key Programs