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7:00 am - 7:15 am Transportation from Hotel Sofitel to Executive Briefing Center (shuttle transportation provided for guests) 7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast - Executive Briefing Center (All Sun Executives Invited) 8:30 am - 8:45 am Welcome - Storage Practice Leads      (Welcome address and all Keynotes in Crossroads - MPK11) 8:45 am - 9:45 am Keynote - John Fowler - Sun's Storage Strategy  9:45 am - 10:45 am Keynote - Jon Benson and Victor Walker - Sun Storage Execution  10:45 am - 11:15 am Break - Foyer MPK 11 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Keynote - Sun's Open Strategy - Executives from around Sun (Moderator: Graham Lovell)  12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch - Executive Briefing Center (All Sun Executives Invited)   Track 1: Archive/Backup/Data Protection Jupiter - EBC Track 2: Primary Storage Embarcadero - MPK 11 Track 3: Archive/Primary Disk/Primary Storage Crossroads - MPK 11 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Open Archive - The Continuing Role of Tape  (Jim Cates) Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Sun Solutions a Perfect Match  (Stephen Marble) Customer Perspective: SSD: Storage, Servitude & Denial, How Flash and Open Storage can free you from 20 years of vendor domination  (Jason Williams, DigiTar) 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Integrated VTL: The Power of Virtual Tape  (Dan Albright) Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (a.k.a. Amber Road): Inside the software, Amber Road, and Sun's Next Generation Open Storage  (Mike Shapiro) Customer Perspective: Redefining Hierarchical Storage Management flexibility and Open Storage in high throughput scientific environments  (Jake Carroll, Univ. of Queensland) 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break - Foyer MPK11 and Jupiter 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Sun Storage Virtual Storage Manager - Solution for Today and Tomorrow  (Steve Aaker) What's new in Sun Services Scene  (Sue Zwinger) BOF with customer perspective: Sun's Mainframe Storage into the Future and RBC's Continued Evolution of Mainframe Tape with Dan Ledgerwood of RBC  (Jay Wallace, moderated by Tom Wultich) 5:10 pm - 6:00 pm Keynote - Jonathan Schwartz - Sun's Open Strategy  6:15 pm Transportation from Executive Briefing Center to Hotel Sofitel (shuttle transportation provided for hotel guests) 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Customer Reception and Dinner - Sofitel (All Sun Executives Invited)

7:00 am - 7:15 am Transportation from Hotel Sofitel to Executive Briefing Center (shuttle transportation provided for guests) 7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast - Executive Briefing Center (All Sun Executives Invited) 8:30 am - 8:45 am Day 1 Recap - Jon Benson      (Recap and all Keynotes in Crossroads - MPK11) 8:45 am - 9:45 am Keynote - Customer Panel (Moderator: Lisa Sieker)  9:45 am - 10:45 am Keynote - Special Guest - Fred Moore, Horison Information Technologies  10:45 am - 11:15 am Break - Foyer MPK11   Track 1: Archive/Backup/Data Protection Jupiter - EBC Track 2: Primary Storage Embarcadero - MPK 11 Track 3: Archive/Primary Disk/Primary Storage Crossroads - MPK11 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Tape Library and Drive Update  (Tom Wultich) Designing Sun Modular Storage for Oracle Environments  (Grant Sleesman) End-to-End Storage for HPC  (Marc Hamilton) 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch - Executive Briefing Center (All Sun Executives Invited) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm BOF: Open Archive (Jennifer Feng, Hernando Gonzales) Shifting Gears with FLASH SSDs  (Denis Vilfort) Data De-duplication Choices and Considerations  (Jun Jang) 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Tape - The Ultimate Eco Storage  (Jay Wallace) Designing Storage Infrastructure for Virtualized Data Centers  (Said Syed) Managing Scalable Storage Environments with Solaris  (Lynn Rohrer) 3:10 pm - 3:30 pm Closing Keynote - Jon Benson  4:00 pm - 5:30 pm LTUG Information and Update Session (Crossroads) 5:45 pm Transportation from Executive Briefing Center to Hotel Sofitel (shuttle transportation provided for hotel guests)

*Note: Content and Agenda are subject to change