Overview Agenda Virtual Forum Blogs Sponsors   Online Participation This area had been reserved to those who had registered for virtual participation, but has now been made available post-conference. Please check below for items you may be interested in. Video/Audiocast Replays If you missed any of the live webcasts or audiocasts, replays will be available as soon as possible. Furthermore, there will be video replays for all other sessions on the Forum Agenda as well. Stay tuned and look for the links here: Wednesday Keynotes Welcome Sun's Storage Practice Leads welcome attendees to the 20th year of FORUM, the premier storage event for Sun Microsystems. Sun Storage Strategy John Fowler articulates Sun's ongoing commitment to storage and Sun's open innovation strategy. Sun Storage Execution Jon Benson and Victor Walker discuss Sun Storage Execution. Sun's Open Strategy - Executives from around Sun Top executives from around Sun discuss storage technologies for open systems and mainframe environments. Sun's Open Strategy Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems CEO, discusses Sun's Open Strategy. Thursday Keynotes Day 1 Recap Jon Benson provides a 15 minute recap of Day 1. Customer Panel Join a panel discussion and hear from leaders in the storage industry. Special Guest Fred G. Moore, Horison Information Strategies President provides insight and analysis into the latest emerging trends and the key developments in the storage industry. Closing Keynote Jon Benson brings FORUM 2.0 to a close. Track 1: Archive/Backup/Data Protection Open Archive: The Continuing Role of Tape While open storage will have a significant impact to disk storage customers by offering improved cost and better flexiblity, open storage and open source software will also deliver material benefits to tradtional tape customers. This presentation will cover the evolving role and continued advantages of virtual and physical tape storage in the new open storage paradigm. Sun's open architectural appraoch to archive management software will be presented along with other software elements relevant to customers who want to optimize their tape storage infrastructures. (Jim Cates) Integrated VTL: The Power of Virtual Tape This session begins with a quick overview a Virtual Tape system's primary role in the back-up and restore environment and moves on to define the Integrated VTL and compare it to what is typically sold by other technology vendors in today's market. An Integrated VTL is the cornerstone of cost-effective and efficient data protection architecture. Usage of key features such as NDMP 4.0, tape caching and data de-duplication will be highlighted in the conversation. (Dan Albright) Sun Storage Virtual Storage Manager - Solution for Today and Tomorrow This presentation will provide both an overview and update on the industry leading VSM solution from Sun. This session will provide background of how VSM is truly the best integrated virtual tape solution on the market today. The fully integrated disk, tape, and software solution helps solve those ever growing storage challenges. The speaker will also provide a glimpse into our future directions with this product. (Steve Aaker) Tape Library and Drive Update This session will cover what Sun has released since the last Forum in tape libraries and drives = enhancements and new products that helped Sun capture the #1 market share in automated tape (per IDC branded in 2Q 2008). It will also cover what is planned next - innovations that will continue to demonstrate Sun's leadership in tape libraries and drives. (Tom Wultich) Tape - The Ultimate Eco Storage This presentation will provide you with the perspective that disk-only vendors do not want you to know. Find out how tape is an economically responsible storage tier and how having a spare copy of your data on tape can be priceless. (Jay Wallace) Track 2: Primary Storage Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Sun Solutions a Perfect Match Microsoft and Sun Microsystems recently have forged great relationships and solutions for Exchange 2007. From production servers and storage to turnkey solutions Sun and Microsoft with our partners have a great deal to offer. See why our solutions are faster running and more economical to operate than other solutions available. All of our solutions are fully tested and certified and posted on the Microsoft website. (Stephen Marble) Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (a.k.a. Amber Road): Inside the Software, Amber Road, and Sun's Next Generation Open Storage For almost three years, Sun's Fishworks advanced engineering team has been hidden away building our next-generation Open Storage platforms. Mike Shapiro, Distinguished Engineer and lead for the Fishworks team, will introduce and demo the new products and talk about how Sun's Open Storage products deliver innovations and a new kind of storage economics. What's new in Sun Service Scene Meet the VP of Sun's Global Storage Technology Support Center, Sue Zwinger. Receive an update on the current state of Storage service and view the path forward. Session wraps up with Q & A. Designing Sun Modular Storage for Oracle Environments Understanding how Oracle interacts with Sun Modular Storage is key to designing a database that takes advantage of the storage architecture. In this session, Sun Engineering will walk you through access rate, access time, protection and capacity to increase the accuracy of the storage design. (Grant Sleesman) Shifting Gears with FLASH SSDs This session examines the SSD paradigm shift and offers suggestions on to how to go about re-designing the CPU-storage eco-system. (Dennis Vilfort) Designing Storage Infrastructure for Virtualized Data Centers Understanding how Oracle interacts with Sun Modular Storage is key to designing a database that takes advantage of the storage architecture. In this session, Sun Engineering will walk you through access rate, access time,protection and capacity to increase the accuracy of the storage design. (Said Syed) Track 3: Archive/Backup/Primary Storage Customer Perspective: SSD: Storage, Servitude & Denial, How Flash and Open Storage can free you from 20 years of vendor domination Open Storage and SSD provide the building blocks to end 20 years of storage vendors dictating to customers. Combined, these technologies empower you to buy IOPs not spindles, avoid data hostage situations...even if its on an appliance, and get the features you need, not just the ones you can afford. We'll talk about these and other ways to use Open Storage, SSD, and optionally the Sun Unified Storage System, to put you in the driver's seat of your storage environment. (Jason Williams, DigiTar) Customer Perspective: Redefining Hierarchical Storage Management flexibility and Open Storage in high throughput scientific environments Storage management is no longer about just looking after data. It has become a role that involves understanding the color, shape and nature of data. The Queensland Brain Institute and The Australian Institute of Bionengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland are managing explosive scientific data growth in unique ways, aided by Sun's SAM-FS and ZFS. This session covers the challenges, difficulties and tideal theatre nanotechnology. (Jake Carroll, University of Queensland) BOF with Customer Perspective: Sun's Mainframe Storage into the Future and RBC's Continued Evolution of Mainframe Tape with Dan Ledgerwood of RBC This presentation will give you the background on how Sun has extended the breath and reach of the StorageTek mainframe attached storage based on the STK heritage, the current Sun portfolio, competitive strengths and a glimpse into our directions. Find out why Sun knows mainframes, that Sun provides an end-to-end mainframe storage solutions, and how Sun is enhancing mainframe storage solutions. (Jay Wallace, moderated by Tom Wultich) End-to-End Storage for HPC Come learn what Sun is doing to simplify HPC Systems with compute and storage clusters, delivering extreme storage performance and archiving your data for the long term. (Marc Hamilton) Data De-duplication Choices and Considerations The amount of data generated by an enterprise and the complexity of the data protection are growing at a fast rate every year. De-duplication can provide a solution to these problems. This session will start with an overview of the different de-duplication technologies and approaches and provide pros and cons for each. The benefits of the de-duplication and key points customer need to consider when selecting a de-duplication solution will be discussed. (Jun Jang) Managing Scalable Storage Environments with Solaris Using a freely-available OS can help reduce your overall storage dated to handle new storage protocols environment costs while keeping up with the latest storage developments and and innovations. Why pay for data services and storage protocol support when Solaris provides these capabilities by default. (Lynn Rohrer) Audiocasts Data De-duplication Choices and Considerations Jun Jang and Dan Albright discuss what's new with this innovative concept, and what the future holds for de-dupe in the world of storage. Open Archive - The Continuing Role of Tape James Cates joins host Alex North in a discussion about OpenStorage and its relevancy and benefits to traditional tape customers. Integrated VTL: The Power of Virtual Tape Dan Albright and Jun Jang return to talk about the strengths and virtues of real tape versus virtual tape storage platforms. Other Podcasts (mp3 format): Live from Forum 08 - Part 1 Alex Plant talks with Jason Williams from Digitar, who reflects on the industry-wide excitement of Sun's latest Amber Road offerings. Live from Forum 08 - Part 2 Alex Plant gets some insight on what today's storage customers are looking for from Ray Austin, a member of Sun's OpenStorage Marketing team. Live from Forum 08 - Part 3 Mark Schaeffer lets Alex Plant in on the latest from Sun's Tape Storage & Archive division. Live from Forum 08 - Part 4 Sonny Singh, Senior Product Marketing Manager from Sun, gives Alex Plant his views on the 20th Annual Forum 08 event. Live from Forum 08 - Part 5 Ben Rockwood with Joyent and Jake Carroll from the University of Queensland share their experiences and successes with Sun's OpenStorage technologies, and how they're looking forward to expanding Sun's presence in their respective data centers.

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