2008 Meetings

June 17th
Sponsor: Asempra Technologies
Speaker: Bill Basinas, Asempra Technologies
Topic: Challenges of Continuous Availability and Protection for Exchange Environments

April 15th
Sponsor: Pillar Data Systems
Speaker: Christopher Hill, Senior Manager, Systems Engineering
Topic: Impacts of Server Virtualization on Shared Storage Environments

March 11th
Sponsor: Agami
Speaker: Paul Massiglia, Chief Technology Strategist, Agami
Topic: High Availability and Disaster Recovery for NAS Data

February 12th
Sponsor: Plasmon, LMS
Speaker: Kevin Dennehy, Senior Systems Engineer, Plasmon LMS
Topic: Archiving a Business Imperative

2007 Meetings

November
Sponsor: Akorri
Speaker: Gul Paryani, VCP, Systems Engineer for Akorri
Topic: Delivering Performance with Virtual Infrastructure:
Management Best Practices to Ensure Success

October
Sponsor: Unitrends
Speaker: Rob Walker, Systems Engineer for Unitrends
Topic: Unitrends' Rapid Recovery System

September
Sponsor: Adexis
Speaker: Nick Cellentani, Vice President of Operations and Storage Consulting
Topic: Data Classification / Archiving

June
Sponsor: CommVault
Speaker:
Jim Goodrich, systems engineer
Topic: Singular Information Management

May
Sponsor: EMC & Princeton Softech
Speaker: Robert Monado, Princeton Softech and Kevin Powers, EMC

Topic: Enterprise Data Management: Managing Growth Across the Enterprise.

March
Sponsor: Ngini
Speaker: Stephen Spellicy, Sr.Systems Engineer

Topic: Taming the Digital Landfill--learn how duplicate file data affects your organization and what can be done to address this data manamgenet dilemma.

February
Sponsor: International Computerware, Inc.
Speaker: Ali Bliss, Account Executive
Topic: Virtualization for Server Consolidation,DR, Development and Desktop Manageability

January
Sponsor: Princeton Softech
Speaker: Robert Monaco, Account Manager, New England
Topic: Options for Addressing Enterprise Application Data Growth and Data Privacy

2006 Meetings

December
Sponsor: Data Domain
Speaker: John Shedlosky, Systems Engineer
Topic: Disk-basd Backup 101

November
Sponsor: CCM Services, Inc.
Speaker: Joe Clark
Topic: Compliance Issues

October
Sponsor: Intransa
Speaker: Jake McGill, Director of North American Sales
Topic: High-Performance GRID Storage Using IP SAN& 10gig Ethernet Technology

September
Sponsor: SEPATON
Speaker: Jay Livens, Director of Marketing
Topic: Leveraging Next Generation VTL Technology to Enhance Data Protection & Go Tapeless

July & August: No Meetings

June
Sponsor: SNIA Summer Symposium
Topic: Presentation from Tony Asaro, Sr. Analyst, Enterprise Straegy Group

May
Sponsor: Revivio
Topic: The Design, Architecture and Attributes of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Solutions

April
Sponsor: Plasmon
Topic: Rock Solid Data Protection & Archiving

March
Sponsor: SEPATON
Speaker: Jay Livens, Director of Marketing
Topic: Leveraging Next Generation VTL Technology to Enhance Data Protection & Go Tapeless

February
Sponsor: GlassHouse Technologies
Speaker: Stephen Foskett, Director of Strategy Services
Topic: Storage & Security--Bridging the Gap

January
Sponsor: ExaGrid
Topic: Considerations When Moving to Disk-based Backup

2005 Meetings

December
Sponsor: FilesX
Topic: Making Real Use of CDP Technology

November
Sponsor: LiveVault
Speaker: Geoff Nesnow, Chief Technology Evangelist
Topic: Disaster Recovery for the Masses (John Cleese movie night!)

October
Sponsor: EqualLogic
Speaker: Joe Flaherty, NE Sales and Joe McGinnis, Systems Engineer
Topic: What is iSCSI? And Where Does it Fit?

September
Sponsor: Avamar
Speaker: Mitch Wolf, District Sales Manager
Topic: Object Oriented, Disk-Based Backup

July & August: No Meetings

June: SNIA End User Social

May: Meeting Cancelled

April
Sponsor: NeoPath
Speaker: Marcus Smiley, Sr. Systems Engineer
Topic: Data Characterization & Placement--Implementing a Tiered Storage Model

March
Sponsor: Signiant, Inc.
Speaker: Richard Vining, Director of Strategic Marketing
Topic: Necessary, but Not Evil--Compliance is a Business Opportunity for Improved Data Management

February
Sponsor: XOSoft
Speaker: Chris Crocker, Sr. Systems Engineer and Eric Jackson, Vice President of Products
Topic: High Availability

January
Sponsor: Cloverleaf Communications
Speaker: Steve Breault
Topic: Moving the Intelligence to the Storage Network

2004 Meetings

December: No Meeting

November
Sponsor: Plasmon
Speaker: Shawn Klein
Topic: A Technical Crash Course in Optical Storage

October
Sponsor: DataStorage Corporation
Speaker: Dave Bresler, Vice President
Topic: The Fragility of Tape as a Storage Medium

September
Sponsor: Veritas Software
Speaker: Bob Waters, Eastern Region Sales Engineer, Veritas SMB Windows Solutions
Topic: Moving Towards More Efficient Backups

August: No Meeting

July
Sponsor: Diligent Technologies
Speaker: Tom Grave, product manager
Topic: A Comparison of Virtual Tape and D2D Offerings

June
Sponsor: TriAxis, FalconStor and Diligent Technologies
Speaker: Dan Tanner
Topic: Virtual Tape

May
Sponsor: SNIA End User Day

April
Sponsor: Permabit
Speaker: Tom Martin, VP of VAR Sales
Topic: Best Practices for Compliance

March: No Meeting

February
Sponsor: Aberdeen Group
Speaker: David Hill, Vice President of Storage Research
Topic: Storage Trends for 2004--What They Mean for You

January
Sponsor: Veritas
Speaker: Jeff Lundberg, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Topic: Data Lifecycle Management

2003 Meetings

December
Sponsor: XIOTech
Speaker: Joe McGinnis, Program Manager
Topic: Microsoft's Volume Copy Shadow Service

November
Sponsor: EMC
Speaker: Wayne Adams, Manager, Office of the CTO
Topic: An Overview of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and its Key Initiatives

October
Sponsor:
AppIQ
Speaker:
John Kelly, Director of Product Marketing
Topic:
Standards Based Storage Management

Sponsor: StorAge
Speaker:
Mark Jedraszek, Solutions Architect
Topic:
SAN Environments

September
Sponsor:
CreekPath
Speaker:
Ken Marcks, Eastern Director
Topic:
Improving Business Agility via Storage Operations Management

Sponsor: Intransa, Inc
Speaker:
George Lukon, Systems Engineer
Topic:
IP-SANs—Cost Effective Enterprise Class Storage

August
Sponsor:
KOM Networks, Inc
Speaker:
Dan Tanner, Vice President of Business Development
Topic:
Information Lifecycle Management

July
Sponsor:
NavigateStorage (formerly NaviStor)
Speaker:
Richard Ghastin, President and COO
Topic:
Email Archiving for Microsoft Exchange

June
Sponsor:
Unitrends
Speaker:
Skip St. Pierre, Vice President of Business Development
Topic:
Bare Metal Crash Recovery and Data Protection

May
Sponsor:
ADIC
Speaker:
Jeff Eckard, Product Manager
Topic:
Storage Networking Library Architecture, Functionality and Benefits

April
Sponsor:
Network Appliance
Speaker:
Derek Kelly, Consulting Systems Engineer
Topic:
NetApp Distributed Data, Internet Access and Security Solutions

March
Sponsor:
IS 360
Speaker:
Gary Zasman, President and Principal Consultant
Topic:
Storage Management Taxonomy

February
Cancelled due to snowstorm

January Inaugural Meeting!
Sponsor:
Network Appliance
Speaker:
Kevin Ng, Systems Engineer
Topic:
Fabric Attached Storage: Block and File Access on a Single Platform