Updated Abstract for Keith Parris talk:


If you can make it to New York City, you don't want to miss a talk by
Keith Parris on "Storage Industry Trends" at the HP offices there
(full description below) This is a Local User Group event that follows
an HP Alpha/Itanium roadshow; To sign up the the LUG event, please go
to the HP event webpage below and sign up there, which will get you in
the door. You do not have to be a member of the local user group to
attend either the morning or the afternoon events:

http://www.hp.com/large/events/2004/ev7z/


For move info on the NYMLUG event, please visit the YahooGroups page
below - no registration is required to read the posts.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYMLUG/

Thanks,
Gary McCready
President, Encompass New York Metro Local User group
NYMLUG (at) McCready.com


2:00 - 3:15pm:
Industry Trends in Storage

Keith Parris
Systems/Software Engineer
HP Services - Multivendor Systems Engineering
Hewlett-Packard


This talk will provide an overview of the most-active areas of
development in and identify likely future directions for the storage
industry.

We'll look at disk drive trends, including capacity, performance, and
the shift from parallel to serial disk interfaces, including SATA,
SAS, and FATA, and the areas where each is best suited. We'll look at
the battle between Fibre Channel and Ethernet for dominance in storage
networking, and the interesting combinatorial technologies FCIP and
iSCSI, with the accompanying technologies TOE and RDMA and iWARP.

I'll provide an introduction to the emerging Fibre Channel
technologies for VSANs, LSANs, and Fibre Channel Routing, as well as
discussing advances in remote data replication, SAN extension, and
storage virtualization. We'll talk briefly about the SMI-S storage
management standard, and we'll discuss how all of these developments
will likely affect customers' storage configurations in the future.

Keith Parris is a Systems/Software Engineer for HP on the Multivendor
Systems Engineering team within HP Services, doing fly- and-fix work
and consulting for mission-critical HP customer sites. He frequently
speaks at HP user group meetings around the world. He has provided
telephone support at the Customer Support Center in Colorado, worked
as an engineer in the VAXcluster Systems
Engineering group, worked on OpenVMS Cluster code as a developer
within OpenVMS Engineering, worked on RAID software within Storage
Engineering, and then worked for 6 years as an independent consultant
before rejoining his former Digital colleagues just in time for the HP
acquisition.

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