Meeting at the SONY Auditorium,

3300 Zanker Rd, San Jose CA 95134-1940

April 19-20, 2005

Local Session Chair: John Woelbern, Phone: +1-408-410-2671, e-mail: john.woelbernATthic.org

Theme: The Future of Data Storage Technologies - from the Home Office to the Enterprise

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Agenda

 

 15:00 - 17:00

 Monday, April 18, 2005

Meeting of the Board of Directors at the Sony facility (Conference Room C on the first floor)
 

 Tuesday, April 19, 2005
  
 08:00 - 08:45 Continental Breakfast, registration  
 08:45 - 09:00 Introduction, announcements  
 09:00 - 09:45 Jim Porter, Disk/Trend, 2030 West Middlefield Road #1, Mountain View, CA 94043-2876. Ph: +1-650-961-6209, e-mail: jporter@disktrend.com, - "A Historical Perspective of the Disk Drive Industry".  
 09:45 - 10:30 Scott Cleland, AMCC Storage, 455 West Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085-3517, Ph: +1-408-523-1079, e-mail: scleland@amcc.com - "SATA RAID Storage"  
10:30 - 11:00

Break
  
11:00 - 11:45 Steve Rogers, Adaptec Corp, 691 S. Milpitas Blvd. Milpitas, CA 95035-5473. Ph: +1-408-945-8600, e-mail: steve_rogers@adaptec.com - "i-SCSI Unified Network Storage"  
11:45 - 12:30 Andy Helland, North Wind Enterprises, 12100 Center Avenue, San Martin, CA 95046-9727, andy@andyhelland.com, Ph: +1-408-316-6739, - "Advances in Distributed Storage Systems"  
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch
  
13:30 - 14:15 Robert Lutz, Iomega Corp., 10955 Vista Sorrento Parkway, San Diego, CA 92130-8699, +1-858-314-7053 e-mail: lutz@iomega.com - "Removable Rigid Disk technology and its Application to Home Office and Small-Medium Businesses"  
14:15 - 15:00 Kevin Gray, Maxtor Corp, 333 South Street Shrewsbury, MA 01545-4171, Ph: +1-508-770-6862. E-mail:kevin_gray@maxtor.com - "SAS Technology & Application Trends"  
15:00 - 15:30

Break
  
15:30 -16:15 Karthik Kannan, Netapp, Ph: +1-408-822-3843, e-mail: Karthik.Kannan@netapp.com- "Storage for compliance applications"  
16:15 - 17:00 Dr Peter Koeppe, Tape Head Development, IBM Systems & Technology Group, 5600 Cottle Rd, San Jose CA 95123-3696, Ph: +1-408-256-6127, e-mail: pkoeppe@us.ibm.com - "IBM tape technology in the sixth decade"  
17:30 - 20:00

 

Reception at the Beverly Heritage Hotel
  
 

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2005
  
 08:00 - 09:00 Continental Breakfast  
Registration  
09:00 - 09:45 Dr. Stephen Baker, Sony Electronics Inc. 3300 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95134-1940. Ph: +1-408-955-6222, e-mail: steve.baker@am.sony.com - "Multi-track recording in helical-scan tape systems"  
 09:45 - 10:30 Roberto Basilio, Hitachi Data Systems, 750 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050-2627, +1-408-970-5990, e-mail: Roberto.basilio@hds.com, - "Disk Technologies in High-End Storage Arrays"  
10:30 - 11:00

Break
  
11:00 - 11:45 Ravindra Neelakant, Cisco Systems, 170 W Tasman Dr San Jose CA 95134-1706, Ph: +1-408-853 3863, e-mail: ravijn@cisco.com - "Virtual SAN Storage Technology"  
11:45 -12:30 Dr Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC-0505, La Jolla, CA 92093-5004. Ph: +1-858 534 5073, e-mail: moore@sdsc.edu, - "Integration of Object-based Storage into Preservation Environments"  
12:30 - 13:15

Lunch
  
13:15 - 14:00 Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates, San Jose, CA. Ph: +1-408-202-5098. e-mail: tom@tomcoughlin.com - "Storage Roadmap Trends".  
 14:10 Assemble for carpooling and drive to SLAC  
   
  The THIC Board of Directors is grateful to Sony for their sponsorship of this meeting, and to Dr Richard Mount and the Office of Community Affairs, SLAC for the guided tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator facility.  
Photos taken at SLAC during the tour are available here, but you will need a username and password. Please contact hariATthic.org if you do not already have them.