Featured Speakers
Featured Speakers - Winter 2008 SSIF Storage Security Summit
Keynote Speaker
Steven W. Teppler
CEO, TimeCertain
Steven W. Teppler is an attorney, inventor, and the CEO of TimeCertain, LLC, an information security solutions company. He founded TimeCertain in 1999 after having confronted first-hand the evidentiary issues presented by challenge-prone digital data content. Mr. Teppler, a litigator who has practiced law since 1980, is admitted to the bars of New York, the District of Columbia and Florida. Mr. Teppler is a member of the Information Security Committee of the American Bar Association, a co-author of the ANSI X9F4 trusted timestamp guideline standards for the financial industry, a founding member of the Information Assurance Consortium, and a member of the Sedona Conference Workgroup 1.
Mr. Teppler writes about and lectures to the legal, auditing and information security communities about evolving theories of computer generated information and evolving theories of liability, practice and evidence in an electronic data universe. He also advises private and public sector clients about risk, liability, and compliance issues unique to electronic data generation, alteration, transmission and archiving.
Mr. Teppler is a member of the Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee, and contributed to Advisory Opinion 06-02 (Metadata Mining). Mr. Teppler’s recent publications include: Spoliation in the Digital Universe; The SciTech Lawyer, American Bar Association, Fall 2007, Life After Sarbanes-Oxley – The Merger of Information Security and Accountability (co-author) 45 Jurimetrics J. 379 (2005); Digital Signatures Are Not Enough (co-author); Information Systems Security Association, January 2006; State of Connecticut v. Swinton: A Discussion of the Basics of Digital Evidence Admissibility (co-author), Georgia Bar Newsletter Technology Law Section, Spring 2005; The Digital Signature Paradox (co-author), IETF Information Workshop (The West Point Workshop) June 2005; Observations on Electronic Service of Process in the South Carolina Court System, efiling Report, June 2005. Mr. Teppler is also a contributing author to an upcoming American Bar Association book working titled “Foundations of Digital Evidence” (publication expected February 2008).
Mr. Teppler received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Summa Cum Laude from the City College of New York, Phi Beta Kappa, and received his Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
Featured Speakers
Roger Bouchard, BCSD, BCSM, CISSP, is the Worldwide Security Practice Lead at Brocade. Mr. Buichard has been in the computer industry since 1978 with a wide range of experience from programming, analysis, consulting, education and management. He has taught IT security courses since 1994 and has been focused exclusively on the storage industry since 1996. Prior to joining Brocade in December 2000, he was the Director of Professional Services for the storage practice of a major storage solutions reseller in Canada. Mr. Bouchard has been a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Security for Brocade since 2002. . He has developed and delivered several SAN Security Audits and Hardening engagements across North America and written SAN Security whitepapers.
Roger Cummings is Senior Principal Software Engineer in the Advanced Technology Standards group of the Symantec CTO Technology Group. Mr. Cummings served on the SNIA Technical Council for four years and co-chaired the Security Technical Work Group in SNIA for many years. He was also the primary organizer behind the 1st SNIA Storage Security Summit in 2002. Mr. Cummings is considered one of the foremost experts on the history and current state of data encryption, and his entertaining talks have won many awards, including Top Speaker at the SNW Spring 2007 conference.
At Symantec, Mr. Cummings participates in the development of new technologies and advanced products, and represents Symantec in a number of industry bodies developing standards. He is Chair of INCITS Task Group T11.5, is active in INCITS committee T10, and he also participates in a number of IETF Working Groups and in the Trusted Computing Group.
Prior to joining Symantec (who acquired VERITAS Software in July 2005), Mr. Cummings spent four years at Distributed Processing Technology (DPT) as Director of Emerging Technologies (DPT was acquired by Adaptec in 1999). At DPT, he participated in the development of the industry’s first board-level hardware RAID controller to support both SCSI and Fibre Channel device interfaces. Prior to DPT, he spent seven years at StorageTek, working on the development of new high-speed tape technologies, disk arrays, and optical interfaces. He was also Chair of INCITS Technical Committee T11 (responsible for the standardization of Fibre Channel) from its inception in 1993 thru 1998. Mr. Cummings has as total of more than 30 years experience in the computer industry in the UK, Canada and the United States.
Mr. Cummings holds a B. Sc (Eng) from Queen Mary College, University of London, United Kingdom. He has published more than twenty articles in a variety of publications, from Infostor to Laser Focus World, and is the author of two booklets in the SNIA Technical Tutorial Series - Storage Network Security and Storage Network Management.”
Vincent Franceschini is the Chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Assocation and Senior Director of Future Technologies for Hitachi Data Systems, reporting directly to HDS Corporation’s Chief Technology Officer. In the HDS role, he is responsible for defining the future directions of HDS Data Networking solutions on a worldwide basis and for selecting the key future technologies and solutions that HDS will market. Mr. Franceschini is also Hitachi Data Systems' primary representative to leading Industry Associations work groups such as the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), serving as a Board director of SNIA between 2001 and 2005, and elected Vice-Chairman of the Board in 2002 and 2003, Treasurer of the SNIA Executive Committee in 2004, and Chair in 2006 and 2007. Mr. Franceschini now leads a new emerging initiative at SNIA to define the role of the Storage Industry in the Grid solutions space.
Eric Hibbard, CISSP, ISAAP, ISSEP, CISA, is the SSIF Storage Security Summit Chair and currently the Senior Director, Data Networking Technology in the Office of the CTO for Hitachi Data Systems. He is responsible for developing and leading the execution of Hitachi Data Systems’ (HDS) storage security strategy and he serves as the principle storage security architect.
Within SNIA, Mr. Hibbard is the Chair of the Security Technical Working Group (TWG) as well as a member of the Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF), the Data Management Forum (DMF), the Storage Management Initiative Technical Steering Group (SMI TSG), and several TWGs (e.g., Information Lifecycle Management, Management Protocol, and Fixed Content Aware Storage). He is also the Chair of the Security Track for SNIA tutorials and a key author of several SNIA whitepapers and reports, including: “Introduction to Storage Security”, “SNIA Storage Security – Best Current Practices (BCPs) v2.0”, “Encryption of Data At-rest – A Step-by-Step Checklist”, and “Standards Relevant to Storage Security”.
Mr. Hibbard is active in both storage and security standardization, where he is currently the Vice Chair of IEEE P1619 Security in Storage Work Group (SISWG), which focuses on storage-based encryption and key management services, as well as serving as a member of INCITS/T11 (Fibre Channel), INCITS/CS1 (Cyber Security), IETF, W3C, the Trusted Computing Group, and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). In addition, he participates in the IEEE Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC), the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the Computer Security Institute (CSI).
Mr. Hibbard currently holds the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification as well as the Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP), the Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP), and the Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) concentration certifications. He also holds the ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and the Register for the Summit.
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Ethernet Education /forums/esf/education 513
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has an established SNIA Education program offering educational opportunities to end users and the IT industry at large. The Education Committee leverages the strengths of SNIA Member companies, SNIA Education Providers, and the SNIA Technology Center to offer certification programs, a dictionary of terms, workshops and conferences.
Below is a list of some of the ways we can educate the marketplace worldwide:
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has an established SNIA Education program offering educational opportunities to end users and the IT industry at large. The Education Committee leverages the strengths of SNIA Member companies, SNIA Education Providers, and the SNIA Technology Center to offer certification programs, a dictionary of terms, workshops and conferences.
Below is a list of some of the ways we can educate the marketplace worldwide:
- Storage Networking World Events (China, Japan, Australia/New Zealand, North America and Europe)
- Storage Industry Events
- SNIA Datacenter Academy Events in EMEA
- End User Groups
- SNIA Tutorials and whitepapers
- End user case studies and contributed articles
In addition, be sure to check out our ESF Webcasts on the SNIA Community page providing easy access to new and existing SNIA resources: /about/socialmedia/
Knowledge Center /forums/esf/resources 514
The Ethernet Storage Forum is your primary source for resources about Ethernet Storage related technologies. We regularly hold educational webcasts, publish white papers and articles and actively blog on top-of-mind topics related to Ethernet Storage.
The Ethernet Storage Forum is your primary source for resources about Ethernet Storage related technologies. We regularly hold educational webcasts, publish white papers and articles and actively blog on top-of-mind topics related to Ethernet Storage.
Check back on a regular basis as we add new information often.
iSCSI & New Approaches to Backup & Recovery /forums/esf/knowledge/webcasts/new_approaches 515
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Long-Term Retention /forums/dpco/programs/ltr 519
More Information Coming Soon!
Please be sure to review the LTR TWG tutorial on the long-term preservation of digital information.
2011 Tutorial Archive /education/tutorials/2011 521
SNIA Tutorials /education/tutorials/2011/spring 522
Call for Proposals for SNW SNIA Tutorials
Spring 2011 Tutorials
| The Business Case for Clouddownload (274 KB) | ||
| Trends in Application Recoverydownload (729 KB) | ||
| The File Systems Evolutiondownload (374 KB) | ||
| Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE)download (2 MB) | ||
| SNIA Storage Security Best Practicesdownload (1 MB) | ABCs of Data Encryption for Storagedownload (601 KB | Cryptography DecipheredView Abstracts
Solid State Storage Joseph White, Track Manager
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| The Benefits of Solid State in Enterprise Storage Systemsdownload (5 MB) | Are SSDs ready for Enterprise Storage Systems?download (678 KB) | Apples to Apples, Pears to Pears in SSS Performance BenchmarkingView Abstracts
Storage and Storage Management Marty Foltyn, Track Manager
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| Writing Storage RFPs in 2011download (756 KB) | Implementing Large Scale Storage Management Infrastructuresdownload (481 KB) | Get Ready for SupportView Abstracts
Virtualization/Applications Josh Tseng, Track Manager
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| Virtualization I -Who, What, Why When?download (662 KB) | Three Virtualization Management Myths Busteddownload (553 KB) | ||
2010 Fall Tutorials /education/tutorials/2010/fall 525
Call for Proposals for SNW SNIA Tutorials
Some of the SNIA Tutorials have corresponding videos—be sure to watch for the video icon 
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| Cloud Storage Client download(3 MB) view video | The Role of WAN Optimization in Cloud Infrastructuredownload (561 KB) | Cloud Storage Security with a Focus on CDMI download (153 KB) | |
| Deploying Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Computing View Abstracts Data Protection and Management Michael Fishman, Track Manager
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| Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond download (367 KB) | Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies download (2 MB) |
Deduplication's Role in Disaster Recovery View Abstracts Executive Rob Peglar, Track Manager
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| Data Center Transformation - Beyond the Hype download (775 KB) |
File Systems: What They Are and Why You Care View Abstracts File Systems and File Management Paul Massiglia, Track Manager
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| The File Systems Evolution download (684 KB) |
File Systems for Object Storage Devices |
| PCI Express Impact on Storage Architectures and Future Data Centers download (746 KB) |
IP Storage Protocols iSCSI View Abstracts Professional Development David Deming, Track Manager
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| Strategies to Success: Part 2 Now What? download (1 MB) |
Leveraging Social Media to Your Advantage View Abstracts Security Gianna DaGiau, Track Manager
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| Data Encryption and Key Management - Part I & IIdownload (507 KB) | Legal Issues Relevant to Storage View Abstracts Solid State Storage Neil Ekker, Track Manager
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| Accelerating Applications and File Systems with Solid State download (1 MB) |
Latency: The Heartbeat of a Solid State Disk View Abstracts Storage and Storage Management Brandy Hammack, Track Manager
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| Understanding High Availability in the SAN download (327 KB) |
Storage Management Best Practices and Tips download (3 MB) |
Open Source & Standards: A Marriage Made in IT Heaven download (1.1 MB) |
Optimizing Disk Drive Performance in Storage Networks /education/storage_networking_primer/stor_devices/optimizing 527
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SNIA 2011 Winter Symposium /events/wintersymp2011 542
January 24 - January 27, 2011
San Jose, California
Don't miss our Winter Symposium where you and your colleagues can join together for networking, working group meetings, informative keynote sessions, and other unique programs designed for SNIA members.
January 24 - January 27, 2011
San Jose, California
Don't miss our Winter Symposium where you and your colleagues can join together for networking, working group meetings, informative keynote sessions, and other unique programs designed for SNIA members.
| here --> On-line registration for the SNIA Winter Symposium is now closed. However, individuals may register on site at the Sainte Claire. Hotel Information
| Ballroom | ||
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Refreshments available (session breaks as determined by Chairs) | Grand Ballroom Foyer & Sainte Claire Foyer | |
| 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | SNIA Staff Management Team Meeting (private) | Boardroom | |
| 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Green Storage TWG sub-group Meeting: Power Supply | Santa Vesta | |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | SNIA Website Editors Workshop - Learn about the new Drupal public frontend and how it will affect you. | Boardroom | |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Introducing the SNIA and the Symposium Experience: A Brief Orientation and Q&A | Ballroom | |
| 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | BoF: File Systems - The Next Steps for the SNIA | Ballroom | |
| 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | SNIA Staff Session - Part I (private) | Santa Cruz | |
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 |
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| 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | Ballroom | |
| 7:45 AM - 3:00 PM 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
Registration | Grand Ballroom Foyer | |
| 8:15 AM - 9:20 AM | Welcome and Opening Comments by Wayne Adams, SNIA Chairman KEYNOTE: Larry Freeman, author of "Evolution of the Storage Brain: A history of transformative events, with a glimpse into the future of data storage" |
Ballroom | |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Cloud Storage TWG | Sainte Claire | |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Green Storage TWG | Santa Vesta | |
| 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | SMI-S Technical Track (managed by SMI TSG) | Courtyard Room | |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Solid State Storage (SSS) TWG | Saratoga | |
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Security TWG | Boardroom | |
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | 2011 Storage Developer Conference (SDC) Taskforce | Santa Cruz | |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Refreshments available (session breaks as determined by Chairs) | Grand Ballroom Foyer & Sainte Claire Foyer | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Long Term Retention TWG | Boardroom | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch provided by SNIA | Courtyard Atrium | |
| 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and SMI TSG joint | Courtyard Room | |
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Refreshments Available (session breaks as determined by Chairs) | Grand Ballroom Foyer & Sainte Claire Foyer | |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | SNIA Staff Session - Part II (private) | Santa Cruz | |
| 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | SNIA Membership Recognition Awards and Reception | Courtyard Atrium | |
| 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | BoF: SNIA Technology Center - The path to Green | Courtyard Atrium | |
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
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| 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | Ballroom | |
| 7:45 AM - 5:00 PM | Registration | Grand Ballroom Foyer | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:20 AM | Spotlighting SNIA's Cloud and Green Initiatives - Updates from CSI & GSI | Ballroom | |
| 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Green Storage Initiative (GSI) | Santa Vesta | |
| 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM | Cloud Storage TWG | Sainte Claire | |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Data Protection and Capacity Optimization (DPCO) | Boardroom | |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | SMI-S Technical Track (managed by SMI TSG) | Grand Suite 631 | |
| 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) | Saratoga | |
| 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | SNIA Staff Session - Part III (private) | Santa Cruz | |
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | SNIA Technical Council (private) | Courtyard Room | |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Refreshments available (session breaks as determined by Chairs) | Grand Ballroom Foyer & Sainte Claire Foyer | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) 2011 Activites Kickoff | Ballroom | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch provided by SNIA | Courtyard Atrium | |
| 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) | Courtyard Room | |
| 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Green Storage Initiative Marketing Committee | Santa Vesta | |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | SNIA Staff Session - Part IV (private) | Santa Cruz | |
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Refreshments available (session breaks as determined by Chairs) | Grand Ballroom Foyer & Sainte Claire Foyer | |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Cross Marketing Committee | Sainte Claire | |
| 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | BoF: Archive Preservation in the Cloud | Ballroom | |
Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
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| 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | Ballroom | |
| 7:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration | Grand Ballroom Foyer | |
| 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | SNIA Dictionary Production Team Meeting | Boardroom | |
| 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Cloud Storage TWG | Sainte Claire | |
| 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM | SMI-S Technical Track (managed by SMI TSG) | Courtyard Room | |
| 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Data Integrity TWG | Santa Vesta | |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) NFS Special Interest Group Meet & Greet | Saratoga | |
| 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Ethernet Storage Forum (ESF) | Saratoga | |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Refreshments available (session breaks as determined by Chairs) | Grand Ballroom Foyer & Sainte Claire Foyer | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch provided by SNIA | Courtyard Atrium | |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | SNW Hands On Lab Planning Meeting | Courtyard Room | |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | XAM Initiative (XAMI) 2011 Planning Meeting | Sainte Claire | |
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Refreshments available (session breaks as determined by Chairs) | Grand Ballroom Foyer & Sainte Claire Foyer | |
* NOTE: Thursday meetings may end before 5pm, depending on the group's individual agenda.
Solid State Storage /education/tutorials/2009/spring/solid 543