Keynotes

		Mike Gustafson, President & CEO, BlueArc Gustafson has over 15 years of experience in the storage, computer, and IT industries, joining BlueArc in June 2004 as president, and adding the CEO role in May 2005. He served as Senior VP at McData, where from 1998-2004, he had responsibility across worldwide sales, services, and marketing. He was a key member of the management team that led McData's IPO, global sales expansion, and partnership strategies, helping McData gain industry-leading share in the enterprise-level SAN market. Prior to McData, Gustafson worked at IBM, where he ran sales for various divisions, including both direct and channel sales. He sits on the board of Inphase Technologies, a pioneer in holographic storage development.
		Karen Johnson, Regulatory Compliance Officer, Ascension Health, Central Region (St Vincent Health) Karen is responsible for the development and maintenance of the information security compliance programs. In her eight years with St. Vincent Health she also served as the Enterprise Service Technical Manager, responsible for all network server and storage platforms including database administration. Prior to joining Ascension Health, Karen worked for 13 years for the U.S. Department of Defense as a Quality Assurance Specialist supporting Nuclear Submarines and Aircraft Carriers. She worked as a Project Manager developing and corrolating data collection and documentation for quality control inspections during refit and update projects. Karen is a Certified HIPAA Professional as well as a former Novell Systems Engineer and Certified Novell Instructor.
		David H. Webster, Manager, IT Architecture & Strategy, Yahoo! David manages the Architecture and Strategy team for Yahoo's IT Infrastructure. He is responsible for technology and process planning as well as IT standards across Yahoo's heterogeneous environment. Prior to his current role, he led the operations teams responsible for thousands of servers and multiple petabytes of data, which ran the internal infrastructure at Yahoo. He has over 10 years of IT management experience in the technology industry. David was Director of IT at Redback Networks during the company's explosive growth period. Other experience includes managing IT and release engineering at Cygnus Solutions, open systems security at Wells Fargo Bank, and UNIX Systems Administration at Tandem Computers.

Speakers

		Joseph Egan, Network Analyst, Children's Hospital Central Cal Joseph Egan has been a Network Analyst at Children's Hospital Central Cal, in Madera, Calif., for nearly 10 years. There he has designed and implemented storage and recovery systems including high availability, tape backup, disk backup, mirroring, and disaster recovery for clinical and non-clinical systems across Netware, Windows, Linux, and Unix. Joe has made it a mission to stay informed on all of the industry's changing technologies.
		Eran Farajun, Executive Vice President, Asigra Farajun is responsible for overseeing sales, marketing, business development, and long-term market strategy activities of Asigra’s remote-office/branch-office backup and recovery solutions. He also manages strategic relationships with third-party storage vendors. He played a key role in the launch of the company’s enterprise software products and in establishing Asigra as a leader in the new segment of utility backup/recovery software solutions designed for geographically dispersed environments. Farajun has spent nearly 10 years marketing utility storage software technologies. He holds a law degree from the University of Sheffield in the U.K.
		John Greiner, CTO, Legal Services of New York City Greiner is responsible for improving the quality and delivery of legal services through effective application of information and communication technologies. He led the planning and development of services that dramatically increased communication, resource sharing, and collaboration among LSNY’s 17 offices and sister organizations. Before LSNY, he led the Illinois Technology Center for Law in the Public Interest, which develops and manages leading legal information resources and tools for legal advocates, volunteers, and Illinois residents. Greiner also served as a federal executive making the small business regulatory enforcement environment fairer, as an Indiana Legal Services staff attorney and technologist, and as a state and Congressional legislative aide.
		Thomas Z. Isakovich, Founder, President & CEO, Nimbus Data Systems Prior to founding Nimbus in May 2003, Thomas founded TrueSAN Networks, raising $34 million in financing and overseeing the company’s development of a storage operating system for managing Fibre Channel SANs. At Oracle spinoff Network Computer (now Liberate Technologies), he was instrumental in bringing thin-client computing to the market. While at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, he developed new technologies for simplifying and enhancing human-computer interaction. A frequent speaker on technology and entrepreneurship at universities and industry events, Thomas earned a BA with Honors in Political Science and Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
		Niall O'Driscoll, Vice President of Engineering, Alexa Internet Niall O'Driscoll is Vice President of Engineering at Alexa Internet, responsible for the gathering, storing, mining, and serving of 300 terabytes of data across Alexa's farm of Linux servers. Niall co-founded, managed software development for, and eventually sold Rubicon Technology, which used expert systems with hypertext interfaces to automate the task of troubleshooting robots and other manufacturing equipment. Before joining Alexa in 1996 as Manager of Client Engineering, he was a software development manager at Wonderware Technology. Niall holds an MBA from University College Dublin, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.
		Sujal Patel, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Isilon Systems Sujal is the chief architect of Isilon's network storage system. Prior to founding Isilon, he spent five years at RealNetworks, in part as chief architect behind the company's second-generation core media delivery system, which is still in use today by leading streaming content providers. At RealNetworks he also managed the engineering teams for the company's primary infrastructure products. Sujal has been an active member of the open-source software development community, including working as a developer on the FreeBSD operating system. He holds a number of patents and pending patents, including those for the Isilon OneFS™ distributed file system and for the RealNetworks network-adaptive SureStream™ technology.
		James Reaney, Director, Research Markets, BlueArc Dr. Reaney has fifteen years of experience as an IT Manager and computing/networking/storage analyst with various HPC research environments. Prior to joining BlueArc, he was Network and Server Operations Manager for the Life Sciences at Harvard University. His experience provides him with a solid working knowledge of research customers' day-to-day operations, the challenges faced by local IT staff, how to better meet the fiscal requirements of research administrations, and how BlueArc's products help accelerate research performance.
		Miklos Sandorfi, Chief Technology Officer, Sepaton Miklos is responsible for Sepaton’s product vision and roadmap. He has an extensive background in the development of enterprise-class storage systems. He served for more than a decade at EMC, where he was responsible for many technological advances in product categories including client/server, mainframe, and Open Symmetrix. Miklos worked closely with industry leaders to help develop the Fibre Channel protocol in its infancy and was instrumental in bringing Fibre Channel connectivity to EMC products. Most recently, he was responsible for the FICON architecture and implementation in Symmetrix. He has 10 granted and 10 pending patents for inventions in the Fibre Channel and disk subsystem I/O technology space.
		Albert N. (Chip) Copper III, PhD, Solutioneer, Brocade Copper tracks the SAN market and serves as a resource that is available to customers, partners, and integrators. He and the Solutioneer team are responsible for helping Brocade's customers solve real business problems through SANs. With over 20 years of experience in program management and information systems, he has a broad technical background that includes designing and building microprocessor-based controllers, designing operating systems, developing custom languages, producing compilers, specifying and deploying both telecommunications and IP networks, and developing and writing distributed applications on a range of platforms from simple processors to supercomputers. Copper has consulted to the financial industry and managed projects from initial concept to deployment.
		Nicholas Schoonover, Solutions Architect - Database Specialist, Double-Take Software Nicholas is a Solutions Architect and Database Specialist for Double-Take Software. He has designed and implemented Availability solutions for more than 8 years that protect the Microsoft Windows Server platform and applications such as SQL Server, Exchange, and IIS. In previous roles, Nicholas has worked with large scale Web Data Mart applications for Behavioral Analysis and Target Marketing applications for the Internet’s largest sites. Nicholas attended The Ohio State University and has obtained a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification. He currently lives in Northern California and spends much of his time outside of work playing Poker and writing music.
		Ron Totah, Director of Technical Marketing, BlueArc Ron is responsible for technical analysis and positioning for BlueArc's high-performance network storage solutions, including the company's flagship product, Titan. He helps drive future requirements and features by close interaction with customers and by bringing his 16 years of experience in NAS, SAN, LAN, and WAN industries. Prior to BlueArc, he held similar Technical Director positions at Brocade Communications and Tasman Networks. Early in his career, he was involved in early efforts in proprietary storage networks for the medical imaging and satellite telemetry markets.
		Adrian M. Wojnowski, SAN Architect, QLogic An eleven-year IT veteran, Adrian is responsible for working with Global 2000 IT organizations, providing guidance for the deployment of SANs and insight into future technologies. Previous experience includes serving as Senior Systems Engineer at Storage Technology Corp. in Toronto, where he focused on designing and implementing large-scale enterprise solutions. In 2003, he relocated to California for a role as a Consulting System Engineer with a primary focus on designing and coordinating the implementations of large-scale enterprise storage infrastructures. In 2005, Adrian joined Troika Networks in order to work with end users on designing and implementing storage virtualization solutions along with next-generation storage infrastructures.