AGENDA
Monday, June 4, 2018
Evening Welcome Reception
This will be an opportunity to pick up registration badges and then network with other attendees.
Location: The “Gallery”
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Registration and Breakfast
Attendees can pick-up their registration bag and
Location: Celebrity #3
Analyst Keynote - A Look to the Future of IT
Frank Berry will set the stage by discussing the current and future industry and technology trends.
F. Berry
IT Brand Pulse
Location: Celebrity #1/2
CEO Keynote - Innovation Now and Always
CEO Nelson Nahum will offer welcoming words, state of the business and announcements.
N. Nahum
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Zadara Vision and Roadmap
A deeper look at Zadara’s vision and roadmap, and how it influences and responds to industry and market trends
O. Kellner
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Morning Break
Coffee and snacks available in ballroom reception area
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Industry Keynote - Intel’s New Compute Platform
Intel will describe the technology used in Zadara’s
R. Sardo
Intel
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Customer Experience Panel
Solution Sales VP Doug Jury will host a panel of customers to discuss their use cases and the reason they choose Zadara technology
Moderator: D. Jury
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Lunch
Location: Celebrity #3
Industry Keynote - AWS on Cloud and Storage
AWS will provide a perspective of IT moving to the cloud and an overview of AWS services, with a focus on Enterprise services and Zadara’s value-add
D. Cliche
AWS
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Zadara’s Flashy New Offering
Zadara's coming new offering of all-flash VPSA® optimizedY. Hershko
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Partners Panel: Winning with Zadara
Kerry Telling hosts a panel of partners to discuss their customers’ storage business needs and the solutions they built with Zadara technology
Moderator: K. Telling
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Afternoon Break
Coffee and snacks available in ballroom reception area
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Industry Keynote - Google Cloud Platform is Here
Google will cover its GCP strategy and offerings, and zoom in on storage and how Zadara fits into the picture
Manvinder Singh
Google
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Industry Keynote - Western Digital
Western Digital will go over trends in storage media, including nonvolatile memory and helium-filled HDDs, as well as its partnership with Zadara
M. Alexenko
Western Digital
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Cloud Update - Zadara has its Head in the Clouds
Cloud General Manager Noam Shendar will discuss Zadara’s public cloud strategy and differentiation. Topics will include unique features, cloud partnerships, edge clouds and multi-cloud.
N. Shendar
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Intel Proudly Sponsor Zadara Event
Bar, Music, Food, and Networking
Location: Napoleon Piano Bar Paris Hotel
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Breakfast
People mingle about and catch up on conversations from previous 2 days. Those not familiar with Zadara technology are welcome to join the Zadara 101 session.
Celebrity #3
Zadara 101: Chow Down and Learn
Details: Optional Session for those not familiar with Zadara products
D. Jury
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Announcement - A New Way to Secure Files
Details: VPSA Built-in Anti-Virus and ransomware protection
H. Young
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Unlock Troves of Value in your VPSA®
Details: VPSA advanced features that no one knows about. (Clones,
G. Lopez
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Morning Break
Coffee and snacks available
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Customer Case Study - To the Cloud and Back
Details: Steven Beardsley from Stoel will share his journey to the cloud that ended up with hybrid model with Backup to the cloud
S. Beardsley
Stoel Rives
LLP
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Object Storage: Why Should I Care?
Details: Why Object Storage? Benefits and use cases of this storage type. Latest additions to Zadara OS offering
O. Kellner
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Lunch
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Smarter Storage with Containerized Applications
Details: Using Docker containers to expand the storage functionality, and improve IO intensive applications
G. Lopez
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Customer Case Study - Zadara Container Services for the Win
Details: Mike and John will describe the Lumentum use case of
John Cecil
M. Cowburn
CenturyLink
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Partner Case Study - High-Margin Services
Details: Henry from SANDZ will share his experience building DR as a Service and Compliant Archiving using Zadara storage
E. Velasco
SANDZ
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Tutorial - Monitoring System Health
Details: New Monitoring tools for VPSA Health, Capacity, and Performance
L. Strugano
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Afternoon Break
Coffee and snacks available
Meet the Zadara Team - Roundtable Discussion
Details: Roundtable discussions
O. Kellner
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Tutorial - Matching Storage Solutions to Business Needs
Details: Storage configurations to meet the workload requirements
S. Costigan
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Behind the Scenes - Zadara Operations
Details: Command Center and other tools used by Zadara and customers to manage and control the storage clouds
S. Avihou
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Zadara Gala Dinner
Dinner with live music
Location: Melrose #3/4
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Breakfast
People mingle about and catch up on conversations from previous 2 days and bond with Partners and ClientsLocation: Celebrity #3
Customer Case Study: Multi-Cloud Approach to Genomic Big Data
Details: Anton from NRGene will describe their hybrid and multi-cloud solution for Big Data processing in genomic research
A. Mishel
Stay Calm and Be Compliant: On Security and Risk Management
Security Officer Oded Kellner will discuss Zadara’s security policy and certifications, including GDPR readiness
O. Kellner
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Tutorial: Automation Makes Storage Work for You
Details: The ability to automate processes using REST API’s
E. Donaldson
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Morning Break
Coffee and snacks available
Behind the Scenes: Customer Care from Zero to Production
What does
V. Popovski
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
The Era of Data Privacy
McAfee’s Andrew Logan will discuss data privacy in light of the EU GDPR and the Facebook data leak scandal
Andrew Logan
McAfee
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Closing Remarks
N. Nahum
Zadara
Location: Celebrity #1/2
Lunch
Location: Celebrity #3
