IBM Technical Edge
Agenda
Monday – June 4th
Time Title of Session / Speaker(s) 8:00am – 10:00am General Session
- Welcome: Deon Newman, VP Marketing, Systems and Technology Group, North America
- Smarter Computing in a New Era of IT: Rod Adkins, Senior Vice President, Systems and Technology Group, IBM
- A New Approach to Storage:
Brian Truskowski, General Manager, Storage and Networking, IBM;
Yoni Cohen, CEO, Snowball VFX;
Rick Haverty, Director of IT Infrastructure, University of Rochester Medical Center
10:00am – 10:30am Analyst Interviews
- Dave Vellante and Guests
10:30am – 12:00pm Executive Edge Main Tent
- Executive Edge Welcome: Phil Guido, General Manager, North America, IBM
- Efficient by Design: Ed Walsh, Vice President, Portfolio Strategy and BLE Solutions, System Storage, IBM;
Ian Rimmer, Senior IT Architect, iBurst - Self-optimizing Storage: Bob Cancilla, Vice President, Enterprise Disk BLE, IBM;
Andreas Himmelreich, CEO, IHK-Gfi
12:00pm – 1:00pm Analyst Interviews
- Dave Vellante and Guests
1:00pm – 2:15pm IBM Cloud Storage Architectures
- Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Strategist, IBM
2:15pm – 2:30pm Analyst Interviews
- Dave Vellante and Guests
2:30pm – 3:45pm IBM Total Storage Productivity Center 5:1: New Features and Functions
- Mike Griese, Tivoli Storage Software Product Management, IBM
3:45pm – 4:15pm Analyst Interviews
- Dave Vellante and Guests
4:15pm – 5:30pm What's New with IBM XIV Storage Solutions
- Brian Sherman, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
Tuesday – June 5th
Time Title of Session / Speaker(s) 8:00am – 8:45am Data Center Storage Study Presentation
- Barry Beck, Manager, Global Storage Services and Enablement, IBM
9:00am – 10:15am What's New with DS8000
- Charlie Berger, Certified Consulting I/T Specialist, System Storage Advanced Technical Support (ATS), IBM
10:30am – 11:45am Business Continuity: Data Collection, Risk Analysis and Planning Objectives
- Jon Toigo, Toigo Partners International
11:45am – 2:30pm Analyst Interviews
- Dave Vellante and Guests
2:30pm – 3:45pm Storage and Data Governance with ISSC
- Laura Richardson, Senior Technical Staff Member, Storage Services Solutions, IBM
4:15pm – 5:30pm What's New for IBM SONAS and V7000 Unified in 2012
- Stephen Edel, Storage Portfolio Management, IBM
- John Sing, Executive IT Consultant – Scale Out NAS, HA – DR – Business Continuity, IBM
Wednesday – June 6th
Time Title of Session / Speaker(s) 8:00am – 9:00am IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
9:00am – 10:15am Architecture and Performance Consideration to Design Enterprise Storage Platform Using Intel® Xeon® Processor
- Pankaj Kumar, Chief Architect and Principal Engineer Storage Group, Datacenter Connected System Group, Intel Corporation
10:15am – 10:30am IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
10:30am – 11:45am Disaster Prevention: Part 2 - Protecting the Assets
- Jon Toigo, Toigo Partners International
11:45am – 1:00pm IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
1:00pm – 2:15pm Introducing VMware vSphere Storage Features
- Stephen Foskett, Foskett Services
2:15pm – 2:30pm IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
2:30pm – 3:45pm IBM Storwise V7000 Unified: A Comprehensive Product Overview
- Norman Bogard, Technical Sales Specialist – Storwize V7000 Unified, IBM
3:45pm – 4:15pm IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
4:15pm – 5:30pm Introducing the IBM XIV Multiplex Enterprise Cloud Systems
- Aviad Offer, Storage Solutions Engineering, SSE Manager, IBM
Thursday – June 7th
Time Title of Session / Speaker(s) 8:00am – 9:00am IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
9:00am – 10:15am Storage for IBM PureFlex Systems
- Kevin Powell, Storage for PureSystems, IBM
10:15am – 10:30am IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
10:30am – 11:45am Global Technology Services SIO Study Analysis
- Steve Will, IBM
- Barry Becker, Manager, Global Storage Services and Enablement, IBM
- Uraine Browne-Armstrong, Market Segment Manager: Data Center Services: Storage, IBM
11:45am – 1:00pm IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
1:00pm – 2:15pm Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server Database Integration with IBM XIV Storage
- Glenn Fujimoto, World-Wide XIV Database Integration Lead, IBM
- Jason Cataline, Senior Unix Administrator, Fossil
2:15pm – 2:30pm IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
2:30pm – 3:45pm Storage Cloud
- George Contino, Consultant – Global Cloud Services – Storage, IBM
3:45pm – 4:15pm IBM Social
- Scott Laningham and Guests
4:15pm – 5:30pm Duplication: It's Not Magic, It's Math
- Ron Herrmann, Executive Technical Storage Specialist – ProtecTIER, IBM
Friday – June 8th
Time Title of Session / Speaker(s) 8:00am – 10:00am General Session
- Welcome: Deon Newman, VP Marketing, Systems and Technology Group, North America
- Smarter Computing in a New Era of IT: Rod Adkins, Senior Vice President, Systems and Technology Group, IBM
- A New Approach to Storage:
Brian Truskowski, General Manager, Storage and Networking, IBM;
Yoni Cohen, CEO, Snowball VFX;
Rick Haverty, Director of IT Infrastructure, University of Rochester Medical Center
10:00am – 10:30am Analyst Interviews
- Dave Vellante and Guests
10:30am – 12:00pm Executive Edge Main Tent
- Executive Edge Welcome: Phil Guido, General Manager, North America, IBM
- Efficient by Design: Ed Walsh, Vice President, Portfolio Strategy and BLE Solutions, System Storage, IBM;
Ian Rimmer, Senior IT Architect, iBurst - Self-optimizing Storage: Bob Cancilla, Vice President, Enterprise Disk BLE, IBM;
Andreas Himmelreich, CEO, IHK-Gfi
12:00pm – 5:00pm Summary of Sessions
IBM Cloud Storage Architectures
- Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Strategist, IBM
What's New for IBM SONAS and V7000 Unified in 2012
- Stephen Edel, Storage Portfolio Management, IBM
- John Sing,Executive IT Consultant – Scale Out NAS, HA – DR – Business Continuity, IBM
Introducing the IBM XIV Multiplex Enterprise Cloud Systems
- Aviad Offer, Storage Solutions Engineering, SSE Manager, IBM
Storage for IBM PureFlex Systems
- Kevin Powell, Storage for PureSystems, IBM
Storage Cloud
- George Contino, Consultant – Global Cloud Services – Storage, IBM

