Meeting at the SONY Auditorium,

3300 Zanker Rd, San Jose CA 95134-1940

February 28 - March 1, 2006

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

Theme: “Data Storage Technologies – meeting the Challenges of Tomorrow’s Applications”

 

 

 

 

Final Agenda

 

 

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
 
08:00 - 08:45 Registration, Continental Breakfast  
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome, Introduction  
09:00 - 09:40 Erhard Schreck, Maxtor, 500 McCarthy Blvd, Milpitas CA 95035-7908, Ph: +1-408-894-5221, FAX: +1-408-894-4876, e-mail: erhard_schreck@maxtor.com - "Head-Disk-Interface (HDI) Diagnostic in Disk Drives" (4,576,578 bytes)  
09:40 - 10:20 Jim Wheeler, QStar Technologies, Inc, 2175 West Hwy 98, Mary Esther FL 32569-1450, Ph: +1-850-243-0900/+1-800-568-2578, FAX: +1-850-243-4234, e-mail: jwheeler@qstar.com - "Trends in Archive Storage Management" (573,826 bytes)  
10:20 - 10:40

Break
 
10:40 - 11:20 Ravindra Neelakant, Cisco Systems, 170 W Tasman Dr San Jose CA 95134-1706, Ph: +1-408-853 3863, e-mail: ravijn@cisco.com - "Advances in SAN intelligence" (3,561,195 bytes)  
11:20 - 12:00 Abbott Schindler, Hewlett-Packard Co, 6311 Galway Dr, Colorado Springs CO 80918-7010, Ph: +1-719-590-1047, e-mail: abbott.schindler@hp.com - "Storage Grids - Current Approaches, Relationship with other Grids, Possible Directions" (641,944 bytes)  
12:00 - 13:00

Lunch
 
13:00 - 13:40 Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates, San Jose, CA. Ph: +1-408-202-5098. FAX: +1-408-370-4609, e-mail: tom@tomcoughlin.com - "Storage Architectures Driven by New Applications and Economics" (2,018,793 bytes)  
13:40 - 14:20 Roberto Basilio, Hitachi Data Systems, 750 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050-2627, FAX: +1-408-970-5990, e-mail: Roberto.basilio@hds.com, - "Trends in Design and Application of Tiered Storage" (1,935,937 bytes)  
14:20 - 15:00  Robert Lockhart, Neoscale Systems Inc, 1655 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas CA 95035-7415, Ph: +1-408-473-1369, E-mail: rlockhart@neoscale.com - "Storage Security and Encryption Key Management"  (1,513,040 bytes)  
15:00 - 15:30

Break

Drawing for Camera
 
15:30 - 16:10 David Anderson, Seagate, M/S SHK233, 1280 Disc Drive, Shakopee MN 55379-1863, Ph: +1-952-402-2991, e-mail: david.b.anderson@seagate.com - "Full Disk Encryption - A Trend in Data Protection" (465,641 bytes)  
16:10 - 16:50 Fred Zlotnick, Sun Microsystems, Inc, 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA 94025, phone: +1-650-786-5006, FAX: +1-650-786-3246, e-mail: fred.zlotnick@sun.com - "ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems" (1,282,101 bytes)  
17:30 - 19:30

Reception for THIC attendees at the Beverly Heritage Hotel, 1820 Barber Ln, Milpitas CA 95035-7422.

Please RSVP support@thic.org so that we may have an accurate head count.

 
   
 

 Wednesday, March 1, 2006
 
08:00 - 09:00  Registration, Continental Breakfast   
 09:00 - 09:45 Professor Al Hoagland, C/o Computer History Museum, 1401 Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View CA 94043-1311, Ph: +1-408-554-4032, e-mail: ahoagland@scu.edu - "Project RAMAC update" (14,829,103 bytes)  
09:45 - 10:30 Dr Mike Russak, Komag, Inc, 1710 Automation Parkway, San Jose CA 95131-1873, e-mail: mike.russak@komag.com- "Technical and Manufacturing Considerations for Perpendicular Recording Media" (4,569,525 bytes)  
10:30 - 11:00

Break
 
11:00 - 11:45 

Alan Powers, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, MS 258-6, Moffett Field CA 94035-1000, Ph: +1-650-604-3991, FAX: +1-650-604-1777, e-mail: powers@nas.nasa.gov - "Project Columbia Data Management Overview" (3,647,260 bytes)

There are two video clips, one showing the buildup of Columbia (11,402,900 bytes, mp4), and one showing visualizations from complex computations (165,114,208, mpg)

 
12:30

Lunch
 
13:45 Assemble in parking lot of Sony facility to carpool to the Computer History Museum, Mountain View CA, for a tour. Professor Hoagland will be our guide.