DISKCON USA 2009 - Santa Clara, CA
September 23 - 24, 2009 - Conference and Tradeshow, Santa Clara Convention Center/Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA
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KEYNOTE DINNER, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009. Register now to hear David Hitz, Founder and Executive Vice President of NetApp speak about Key Trends Affecting the Storage Industry: Flash, Virtualization and Cloud
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The DISKCON USA 2009 Conference will spotlight "New Growth Through Innovation"
HDD and SSD sales are rolling again, ahead of the recovery in the global economy. New technology challenges, evolving market forces, and renewed growth in storage are the leading topics for IDEMA’s DISKCON USA Storage Industry Conference. “New Growth Through Innovation” is the theme for this year’s two-day event, which will offer unparalleled insight on business and technology issues for 2010 and beyond.
Don’t miss the innovative session structure — leading storage industry analysts will be co-chairing each session and providing their outlooks for the industry -- that will augment innovative presentations from Seagate Technology, Samsung, Western Digital, NetApp, Intel, Sun Microsystems/Oracle, Pillar Data, SanDisk, and many others!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Exhibit Hall Open 10:00am - 5:00pm
Registration opens at 7:30am
Session 1, 9:00am: "SSDs, HDDs, and Enterprise Storage"
Co-Chairmen: Jim Handy, Semiconductor Analyst, Objective Analysis and John Chen, Senior Director, TRENDFOCUS
Speakers include:
Kevin Crow, Senior Analyst, Intel and David Stutznegger, Enterprise SSD Product Line Analyst, Intel: SSD TCO - Are SSD's Right for You?"
Thad Omura, Vice President, Marketing, SandForce: "Overcoming the Barriers to Mass Enterprise SSD Adoption"
Michael Cornwell, Lead Technologist,Flash, Sun
Esther Spanjer, Director, SSD Technical Marketing, SMART Modular: SSD Performance Benchmarking
Dr. Mike Workman, Chairman & CEO, Pillar Data Systems: Are SSDs Ready for the Enterprise?
Dean Amini, Director, Enterprise Market & Strategy, Hitachi GST: Positioned for Success: Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise SSDs
Scott Stetzer, STEC: SSD's in the Enterprise Drive Market
Lunch - 12:00noon-Terrace Court, Hyatt Regency
Session 2, 1:00pm: "Applications in Mobile Markets"
Co-Chairmen: John Monroe, Research Vice President, Storage Markets, Technology and Service Provider Research, Gartner and Greg Wong,President, Forward Insights
Speakers include:
Don Barnetson, Senior Senior Director of Marketing, SSD, SanDisk: NAND Flash in Entry Level Computing
Arun Kamat, Vice President, Marketing, Hynix: The Role of Memory in Mobile Applications
Maciek Brzeski, Vice President, Marketing, Storage Device Division, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.
Session 3, 3:20pm: "Trends in External Storage/Small Office/Home Office"
Chairman: Krishna Chander, Principal Analyst, Chander Consulting
Speakers include:
Dr. Ho Seong Lee, VP of Marketing, Storage System Division, Samsung Electronics:New Paradigm in the External Hard Disk Drive Business
Melissa Kutrubes, Manager, Product Marketing, Seagate Consumer Solutions Division: The Changing Face of Consumer Storage
Jim Welsh, Vice President/General Manager Branded Products, Western Digital
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Exhibit Hall Open 10:00am - 4:00pm
Registration opens at 7:30am
Session 4, 9:00am: How Cloud Storage is Changing the Building Blocks of Traditional Enterprise Storage
Co-Chairmen: John Rydning, Research Director, Hard Disk Drives, IDC and Rick Villars, Vice President for Storage Systems & Executive Strategies, IDC
Speakers include:
Val Bercovici, Cloud Czar, Office of the CTO, NetApp:Examining the Current Solid State Storage Ecosystem
Siamak Nazari, Principal Engineer, 3PAR
Mike Chenery, President and Co-Founder, Pliant Technology
Robert Ober, LSI Fellow, LSI
Session 5, 10:45am: "Best of Intermag"
Speaker:
Dr. Roger Hoyt, Technology Consultant: Best of Intermag
Lunch 12:00noon-Terrace Court, Hyatt Regency
Session 6, 1:00pm: Future Technologies: "Where Capital Investment Will Go"
Chairman: Dr. Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates
Speakers include:
Paul Hofemann, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, HDD and Emerging Markets, Molecular Imprints, Inc.: Getting Ready for Next Year's Patterned Media Pilot Lines
Dr. Steven Hetzler, IBM Fellow, Manager, Storage Architecture Research, IBM: The Economics of Storage Production
Dr. Sang il Park, Chairman and CEO, Park Systems: Dimensional Inline Metrology with the Crosstalk Eliminated (XE) Atomic Force Microscopy
Dr. Mark Re, Senior Vice President of Recording Media Operations, Seagate Technology: Has HAMR Reached a Critical Mass?
Dr. Don Chernoff, President, Advanced Surface Microscopy: Nanometers and Picometers: Roadmap to Success with 20 Terabit/in² Patterned Media
Charles Barnes, Founder and CTO, DataSlide: "The New Hard Rectangular Drive™ - Will This Breakthrough Technology Lead the Way to the High Performance Green Datacenter of the Future"
Bill Shade, Vice President, Marketing and Engineering, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions: 0.1 Micron Airborne Particle Counting Technology and Applications
Dean Dawson, Senior Director of Marketing for the AFM Product Group, Veeco Instruments: Advanced Dimensional Metrology for DTM/BPM Technology
Poster Session
The poster Session will be held in Ballrooms E,F,G on September 23 from 10am - 5pm and September 24 from 10am - 4pm
Dr. K.C. Ee, Design and Analysis Engineer, Magnecomp: Optimization of Baseplate Hub Design for Swaging Operation
Alexander Taratorin, Principal Scientist, Integral Solutions International: Advanced Ferromagnetic Resonance Measurements of TMR Sensors and Characterization of Perpendicular Recording Heads Using Inductance Measurements
Linlin Hu, Jeff Roberts, Iris Bloomer, n&k Technology, Inc. and Zhenpeng Su, Sha Zhu and Shih-Fu Lee from Seagate Technology: Ultra-Sensitive Optical Metrology for Patterned Media with Extremely Small Pitches and Depths
Exhibitors:
Advanced Surface Microscopy, Inc., Booth 516
Dexter Magnetic Technologies, Booth 205
Flexstar Technology, Booth 107
Glide/Write, Booth 104
Hitachi High Technologies America, Booth 207
Hyperion Catalysis International, Booth 103
IDEMA
Innovative Organics (Saint Gobain), Booth 101
Intevac, Booth 106
JDC Inc., Booth 209
KLA-Tencor, Booth 115
Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, Booth 404
Magnecomp Group, Booth 211
Millennium Automation, Booth 203
Molecular Imprints, Booth 208
Motion Control Systems, Inc., Booth 202
MRA Tek LLC, Booth 204
n&k Technology, Booth 102
Nanocyl S.A., Booth 307
Nanounity, Booth 506
Obducat, Booth 309
Park Systems, Booth 311
Photonics Media, Booth 306
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. Booth 302
Seagull Solutions, Inc., Booth 310
Shinmaywa Industries, Ltd., Booth 206
SNIA, Booth 402
Storage Visions,Booth 305
TSI, Incorporated, Booth 514
Veeco Instruments Inc., Booth 109
Xyratex, Booth 303
Yield Engineering Systems, Booth 308
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