FORUM 2006

Eula Adams

Senior Vice President of Storage Practice, Global Sales and Services
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Eula has more than 30 years of experience in financial services and accounting. He currently serves as Senior Vice President, Global Storage Practice for Sun Microsystems, Inc. Eula had served as Vice President, Global Services for StorageTek before its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in August 2005. From 1991 to 2003, Eula worked at First Data Corporation, serving as a senior executive vice president from 1998 to 2003. In 2000, First Data appointed him president of First Data Resources and Teleservices, two First Data affiliates. Before joining First Data, Eula spent 18 years with Deloitte & Touche where he became a partner and served in various positions of responsibility.

Eula's formal education includes a bachelor's degree in accounting from Morris Brown College, a master's in business administration from Harvard Business School, and is also a Certified Public Accountant. He is also a director of Solidus Networks, Inc. and NetBank. In August 2002, Fortune recognized him on its list of the "50 Most Powerful Black Executives."

Robert Cecil, Ph.D.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Dr. Cecil received his Ph.D. in Heavy Ion Relativistic Nuclear Physics from Kent State University 1981. While at KSU, he held several computer systems consulting positions including a four-year engagement by the North East Ohio College of Medicine. Dr. Cecil participated in major scientific research efforts throughout the United States including Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Lawrence Livermore. Beginning in 1982 he held the position of Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia where he pursued experimental studies at The Max Planck Institute in Germany.

In 1984, Dr. Cecil joined the CT development group at Picker International in Cleveland Ohio. Between 1986 and 1992, he was the primary architect of the image display and networking hardware and software designs for the Picker "Q" series CT scanners. In the 90's, he became responsible for long-term product planning for PACS and electronic imaging review stations. He was the principle Picker representative in PACS and electronic imaging for ACR/NEMA, the FDA and high technology export licensing through the Department of Commerce.

In June of 1995, Dr. Cecil took a staff position as the Network Director for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the Division of Radiology. In 2002, Dr Cecil was granted a dual appointment to the Department of Cardiology at CCF where he influences the future electronic imaging distribution strategy for the cardiac catheterization lab.

Dr Cecil originated the CCF Enterprise Electronic Imaging Transactional Archive upon his arrival at CCF. The system has grown to encompass more than a dozen medical imaging modalities spanning Radiology and Cardiology across more than a dozen Hospitals and related medical facilities. Each week the current system receives almost 3.0 Tbyte of new data and provides nearly 6.0 Tbyte of imaging for comparison and reference.

Dr. Cecil has 7 patents and a growing list of publications.

Randall L. Chalfant

Distinguished Marketing and Strategy Director, Storage
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Randall L. Chalfant is responsible for marketing strategy and is the chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, Louisville, Colorado.

Chalfant's expertise is represented by over 33 years of experience in business development, storage, mainframes, open system servers, operating systems, applications, and networking solutions.

Chalfant is responsible for a variety of technical, communication, and strategy goals at StorageTek. His responsibilities include driving the strategic sales process, and the analysis and development of advanced storage technologies and business strategies that drive new and emerging opportunities that support StorageTek's core businesses through Information Lifecycle management. Chalfant also acts as an executive speechwriter, corporate evangelist, and visionary, delivering lectures and private executive briefings globally.

A published author, Chalfant's work has appeared in many trade magazines. Chalfant has lectured widely at such institutions as SNW, Interop, SHARE, CMG, Disaster Recovery, DPMA, NASPA, EuroStorage, and CeBit, as well as various user groups and customers globally. He has provided storage planning, consulting, and education services for many corporations throughout Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia Pacific.

Nigel Dessau

Vice President, Storage Marketing & Business Operations
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Nigel Dessau is the Vice President of Storage Marketing and Business Operations at Sun Microsystems based in Louisville, Colorado.

In this role he is responsible for driving the team to deliver high value, high growth solutions around the world's leading Tape, disk and software products, the Sun StorageTek product line.

The team's responsibilities stretch from business strategy through product marketing to business operations. The team also has the responsibility for managing relationships with key partners and enabling channels including Sun's own field practices. The team must work with its corporate partners to enable, marketing communications, field marketing and demand generation. Mr. Dessau joined Sun through the acquisition of StorageTek, where he was the Chief Marketing Officer. Since the acquisition, he has held the role VP of the Tape Business Unit. He was also with IBM for 19 years before that.

Sara Gates

Vice President of Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sara Gates is vice president of software at Sun Microsystems and has overall responsibility for driving the Sun portfolio business, including vision and strategy, business planning, and portfolio development. She joined Sun Microsystems in December 2003 through the acquisition of Waveset Technologies, bringing over 15 years of industry experience.

Since joining Sun in December 2003, she has been recognized with the Worldwide Marketing Excellence Award and the Chairman's Leadership Award. She was recently recognized by an independent agency as one of the top three most influential people in her industry.

Previously Gates held strategy and development positions at Deloitte Consulting and Microsoft. Gates holds a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Vanderbilt University, where she is currently President of the Board of Directors.

Brian Glowacki

VP/IT Architect Senior, DCS Global Storage Architecture
JP Morgan Chase - Global Technology Infrastructure

Brian Glowacki has been in the IT industry for more than 15 years creating data storage, SAN and backup architectures. His career has spanned numerous roles with CompuServe, several telecoms and ISPs. After gaining considerable experience in this diversified background, Glowacki joined Bank One and established its enterprise mid-range backup team to create ground-up backup infrastructures in core data centers. With the recent merger of Bank One and JPMorgan Chase, Glowacki moved into the role of Global Storage Senior Architect for Backup and Recovery. This position expands his focus to a global market and a backup infrastructure scaled to sizes seen in few companies worldwide.

Greg Hearn

Operations Manager
Las Vegas Valley Water District

Gregory (Greg) Hearn received the Bachelor of Science degree from North Carolina Wesleyan College in 1996 in computer science. From 1986 to 1995 Greg was an Intelligence Systems Specialist for the United States Air Force, where he presented several computer system demonstrations for the National Security Agency and the Pentagon. In 1992 he received the Meritorious Service Medal for his skills and knowledge of combat computer systems and his contributions to Operation Desert Storm from September 1990 to March 1991. From 1995 to 1998 he worked as a contractor and consultant for BDM & TRW on several Department of Defense contracts as a Senior Systems Analyst. In 1997 as a consultant to the NSA he was once again asked to provide a presentation at the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center for yet another combat computer system for DoD. From 1998 to present he has worked for the Las Vegas Valley Water District as a Senior Systems Administrator providing administration on the Districts corporate SAN and UNIX platforms. In 2000 he was awarded the District's highest award, the GM 5 Star Award, for his contributions to improving system reliability and performance for the District's computer operations center. He continues to be a principle contributor in the architectural design of the District's critical server and network infrastructure.

Robert Hughes

Manager, Media and Capacity
Embarq

Robert has 25 years of experience at Embarq, formerly Sprint in IT and Network. Most of his experience has been on the mainframe side writing code, working with applications, and capacity planning. Currently, he is responsible for the mainframe DASD and Tape operations. Robert is active in Rotary and has served as President. He currently serves at the district level working to eradicate Polio in the world today.

Charles Inches

IT Director
Cornèr Bank

Keith Johnson

Product Manager, Stanford Digital Repository
Stanford University Library & Academic Information Resources

Keith Johnson is the Product Manager for the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR), a set of services focusing on maintaining integrity, authenticity, and readability of digital information over long periods of time. In essence, the SDR is a long-term digital archive for Stanford University's digital reference information. Keith built his in-depth knowledge of digital content management and stewardship with 15 years experience in the IT industry supporting the commercial content creation and management process - primarily in publishing but also in television, advertising, and even classical music performance. Keith has become a nationally recognized thinker, collaborator, and speaker on digital preservation issues.

David Kenyon

Senior Director of Product Management for the Data Protection and Archive Business Group, Storage
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

David J. Kenyon is the senior director of product management for the Data Protection and Archive Business Group, within the Storage Business Unit of Sun Microsystems. He is responsible for driving profitable growth, expanding market share, and ensuring customer requirements are met across six major business areas within the group, tape drives, tape automation, virtualization solutions, data protection software, and data management software in both open systems and mainframe customer environments. In this role, Kenyon oversees product and services revenues of more than $2.0B generated by Sun StorageTek's industry-leading tape products and data protection solutions, including the StreamLine SL8500, Virtual Storage Manager, VTL, and Timberline T9840/T10000 Tape Drives.

Kenyon holds an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School and a BBA in Finance and a BA in Economics from Loyola Marymount University.

Dave Kereliuk

Senior Manager, Technical Services
First Canadian Title

Steve Marchesano

Senior Director of Product Management for Primary Storage and Infrastructure, Storage
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Steve Marchesano is the marketing director for Sun's Disk, NAS, and SAN Infrastrucutre products and has been with the Sun storage organization for the last 4 years. Steve joined Sun as part of Sun's acqusition of Pirus Networks, where he served as Director of Strategic Marketing responsible for corporate strategy and product planning. A 10-year veteran of the storage industry, Steve has managed marketing and product development programs for a variety of storage solutions, including RAID controllers, disk storage systems, block/file convergence, storage vitualization, and storage software.

Jeroen Meijer

Senior Project Manager
KPN

Jeroen Meijer is a senior project manager at KPN (Royal Dutch Telecom, www.kpn.com). In 2005 Jeroen was program manager for the IT Infrastructure Consolidation Program. The ITIC program was aimed at identifying cost reduction, consolidation and standardization opportunities, prioritizing them and executing the related change initiatives. One of the initiatives of ITIC was storage consolidation, and as a part of that initiative the Storage SLA adjustment project was executed.

Fred Moore

Web visionary and author of Storage SPECTRUM

In 1998, Fred Moore founded Horison Information Strategies, an information strategies consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado, that specializes in marketing strategy, industry analysis and business development for the IT industry. Fred began his 21-year career at StorageTek as the first systems engineer and concluded as corporate vice president of Strategic Planning and Marketing. Fred served as Storage Editor for West World Productions and has written numerous books, articles and reports for the storage industry. He is a 1989 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award and a 2004 recipient of the Arts and Science Scholar-In-Residence Award at the University of Missouri where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in computer applications in physical geography. A sought-after IT speaker, motivator and writer worldwide, Fred completed the Berkeley Executive Program in 1997. He currently serves on a few select boards in the storage networking industry.

Alex North

Group Manager, Tape Drives, Product Management
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Alex North is Sun Microsystems' Tape Drives Group Manager and oversees product management of Sun StorageTek branded enterprise tape drives (T10000, T9940 and T9840), OEM-sourced midrange (LTO and SDLT), and low-end (DAT) tape drives as well as tape devicelevel encryption. Alex joined StorageTek in 1998 after six years with Andersen Consulting's Communications Industry Group. Since joining StorageTek/Sun, Alex has held management positions in the areas of removable media, new product launch, program management, and midrange tape drives and automation. Alex received a BA in Business Economics from Colorado College and an MBA in Finance from the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Harriet Pea

Senior Director, Storage Technology Service Center
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Harriet Pea is Global Customer Services' senior director for Sun's Storage Technology Service Center. As a 23-year veteran of technical services delivery, including a lengthy tenure as an IT customer, Harriet brings a unique customer-centric approach to the Global Customer Services business.

As head of the Storage Technology Service Center, Harriet and her staff are intently focused on driving the exceptional customer experience across the global storage community - through technical excellence and ongoing improvements in customer satisfaction and operational efficiency, as well as direct alignment across Sun's global storage business.

Harriet joined Sun's Services organization in 2004 following the corporation's acquisition of StorageTek. Pea has been a key force in the Services integration of Sun and StorageTek, leveraging best practices of both organizations to drive enhancements in customers' overall service experience with Sun Microsystems.

Mark Peters

Host and emcee for all General Sessions

Having hosted Forum in 2004, Mark is familiar with the conference and the needs of its attendees: combining this with his 20+ years of experience in the general IT world, and the storage business in particular, he is very happy to return to host this years Forum.

Prior to his current role as a professional corporate MC and moderator, Mark's career was in sales, marketing and customer-care roles within the IT business. His early career was in sales and sales management, working for Xerox and Memorex-Telex in the UK. He then joined StorageTek, and served in both sales and marketing management, as well as business development and customer advocacy, on both sides of the Atlantic; he worked both in 'the field' with real customers (!) as well as in European and US headquarters-based roles.

Chris Petillo

Director, PACS
NYU Medical

Chris Petillo is the Director of PACS for NYU Medical Center. The PACS is seen as a true utility at NYUMC and incorporates any "ology" that creates and stores images. As such, Chris is part of the Medical Center IT group and works closely with all the other hospital systems. Prior to working for NYUMC, Chris was part of the PACS and Angio Divisions at Siemens Medical Solutions. He has been involved with Medical Systems since 1987 and Medical IT since 1997 and has several articles on PACS implementation, management and vision in magazines such as Diagnostic Imaging, Network World, Health Imaging, and Medical Imaging.

Alan K. Powers

NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
NASA Ames

After graduating with a B.S. Computer Science from Eastern Washington University in 1985 Alan worked at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) and studied for his Masters in Computer Science at the University of Idaho and in 1987 played a key role in setting up the lab's first Cray supercomputer and later it's first internet connection (NSFnet/Westnet). Alan has been working with the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) division at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) since 1992 and has been very involved with the evolution of the facility's supercomputing center. One of his first major projects was setting up archive software (DMF) on the Crays, after a major upgrade problem with the NAStore (local archive software) system and later replaced NAStore, due to Y2K issues, with DMF on SGI's Unix. His most recent accomplishment was leading a team through the installation of Project Columbia (20 single system image nodes with 512 processors each for a total of 10,240 Intel's Itanium 2 processors) making it one of the fastest HPC systems in the world and quickest installation- to-production of any large HPC deployment. Currently responsible for both Columbia's compute and archive systems at NAS and involved in planning its future replacement.

Todd Rief

Senior Director of Global Storage, Professional Services
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

For the past two years, as the senior director of Global Storage Professional services for Sun, Todd has been leading a worldwide team focused on selling and delivering Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) consulting in the areas of data protection, archive, compliance, security, primary storage productivity, disaster recovery, and business continuity. In addition, the team delivers implementation, training, and data center infrastructure services. The business is around $180 million in annual revenue. He also oversaw all integration activities from StorageTek's practice into Sun.

Before taking the role in Global Services, for three years Todd was the senior director of corporate strategy and marketing for StorageTek. In this role, he was responsible for driving market- and technology-based strategic planning activities and decision making for the $2.2 billion company, and led a team of 22 strategy and marketing personnel for the CMO, CEO, and executive team. That team developed an ILM strategy that was unveiled to Wall Street, industry and financial analysts, and customers and became the instigator for a re-organization of the company, which Todd was asked to lead, and a major new storage trend for the industry.

Todd holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina, focused in finance and strategy, and a BS in Systems/Industrial Engineering, with a minor in Economics from the University of Virginia.

Jonathan Schwartz

CEO and President
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jonathan Schwartz is chief executive officer and president of Sun Microsystems. He became Sun's CEO in 2006, succeeding the Company's co-founder and current chairman of the board of directors, Scott McNealy.

Schwartz was promoted to president and chief operating officer in 2004 and managed all operational functions at Sun - from product development and worldwide marketing, to global sales and manufacturing. An inveterate blogger, Schwartz has led Sun's drive toward transparency and openness in everything the organization stands for.

A leader behind many of Sun's open source and standard setting initiatives, from the open sourcing of Sun's flagship Solaris operating system and UltraSPARC microprocessor, to the Liberty Alliance, a cross industry effort to drive royalty free standards for secure network identity, Jonathan's been an outspoken advocate for the network as a utility with more than just value for the computing industry - but as a tool for economic, social and political progress.

From 2002 to 2004, Schwartz served as Sun's executive vice president for software and revolutionized the Company's software strategy with the introduction of Java Enterprise System and launch of the Java Desktop System. Prior to that he directed the company's long-range planning and corporate development activities, including mergers and acquisitions and Sun's venture capital portfolio, as the senior vice president of corporate strategy and planning.

Schwartz received degrees in economics and mathematics from Wesleyan University.

Ken Sibley

Senior UNIX Manager
Accor North America

Ken Sibley has worked with many flavors of Unix for over 15 years. The last seven years at Accor North America have been spent executing growth of the Unix environment through migration, acquisition, and general growth. Ken is responsible for defining the overall storage and backup architecture as well as working with the Solaris environment for the Accor North America Data Centers.

Sandy (Alexander) Stewart

Engineering Manager, Encryption
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Alexander (Sandy) Stewart is a 30-year veteran of the magnetic peripheral industry developing both disk drives and high-end tape drives. During 18 years of senior management experience in tape drives, he has successfully brought more than 12 different products to market and has seven patents either granted or in process. At Sun, Sandy is responsible for the development of the T10000 Encryption System that provides the industry's first complete standalone encryption solution for tape comprising the Key Management Station, embedded encryption in the tape drive, and a flexible key transmission solution. He graduated with honors in physics from Aberdeen University in Scotland and was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

John William Toigo

Founder, CEO and Managing Principal
Toigo Partners International

Jon William Toigo is a 25+ year IT veteran, CEO of an international IT consulting and advisory firm, Toigo Partners International, and founder of the Data Management Institute, a professional organization for those who manage and protect an organization's most important asset: data. Toigo is the author of 14 books, including The Holy Grail of Network Storage Management and Disaster Recovery Planning: Preparing for the Unthinkable, 3rd Edition. He is a columnist in seven trade press publications and the author of more than 2000 articles, whose work is read by over a half million IT professionals monthly. He is widely recognized as a storage industry watchdog and consumer advocate.

David S. Trupkin

District Senior Systems Administrator
Las Vegas Water District

David Trupkin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Charter Oak State College. He is working on a Master’s degree in Information Security at Capella University. David holds MCSA and MCSE certifications from Microsoft and CISSP certification from (ISC)2 . He currently works for the Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) as a Senior Systems Administrator. His responsibilities include Intel-based server administration (including the district’s VMware infrastructure), antivirus, and network-attached storage. In 2003 he received the General Manager’s 5 Star Award as recognition of his service to LVVWD.

Ian White

Sr. Vice President, Global Customers Services
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Ian White, Senior Vice President -Global Customer Services is a pivotal leader in Sun's unified Global Sales and Services organization. White leads a team of over 6000 professionals worldwide who deliver key strategic and operational services for Sun customers, and significant revenues and profit for Sun Microsystems.

White's seventeen year career at Sun is highlighted by significant executive leadership positions in sales and services, most recently as Vice President Sun-Services Americas. White has served as Vice President - International Americas, Vice President - EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Director U.K. Installed Base Sales & Sales Support, and Director U.K. Customer Service Operations & Customer Education.

Chris Wood

Director and Chief Technology Officer for Storage Practice - Client Services Organization
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Chris Wood, director and chief technology officer for Sun's Data Management Storage Practice - Client Services Organization, is responsible for identifying and delivering the best technologies available that can address our customers' complex data management problems. Prior to that, Mr. Wood was the Director of Technical Sales and Marketing - Global Network Storage Sales, and was responsible for delivering technical support, education, and interface into Network Storage product development, as well as architecting solutions for Sun's customers' storage management problems. He joined the Network Storage Division (NWS) of Sun Microsystems when MaxStrat was acquired by Sun early in 1999.

Mr. Wood graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York in 1970 with degrees in Economics and Electrical Engineering. He currently holds three patents in the area of RAID design and very large data object storage architecture and is a member of the Executive Board of the IEEE Mass Storage Technical Committee (MSTC), SNIA Data Management Forum, and numerous other professional organizations.

David Yen

Executive Vice President, Storage
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

David Yen, brings over 26 years of technology know-how, engineering vision and strong business management expertise to Sun Microsystems, Inc. As Executive Vice President of the company's Storage Group, David Yen is responsible for driving growth of Sun's overall Storage business and strengthening its ability to deliver comprehensive, storage solutions and end-to-end information management solutions to a growing $65 billion market.

Prior to leading the Storage organization, Yen was EVP of Sun's former Scalable Systems Group, where he successfully refreshed the companies SPARC server line, and the introduction of the world's highest throughput systems. Under Yen's leadership, the company unified Sun's microprocessors, enterprise systems and SPARC-based volume systems initiatives, and drove product development, strategy, marketing and overall business management.

Leon Ziolkowski

Technical Team Lead Open Systems Backup
Nationwide Insurance

Leon has been in the IT industry for more than 25 years. His experiences for the past 11 years have represented the design and support of various NetBackup environments. Leon’s current assignment is leading a technology team at Nationwide Insurance, supporting the backup and disaster recovery solutions. His vast career spans roles at Ingersoll Rand, Datalink, and JPMorgan Chase in managing data centers and designing new data storage and backup architectures.