Cloud storage: A roundtable discussion featuring senior technologists from EMC, IBM, HDS and Iron Mountain the major providers of cloud storage infrastructure

Session Date & Time: Day 2, March 24, 9.15pm EST (6.15pm West Coast) (45min)
Panelists: Mike Karp Ptak/Noel; Mike Feinberg, Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMC Cloud Infrastructure Group; Sesh Murthy VP, Infrastructure Services Architecture, GTS IBM; Pete Gerr, Strategic Marketing Principal, HDS Hitachi Data Systems; Marc French, Director of Platform Product Management,Iron Mountain.
Abstract Abstract It has become increasingly likely that corporate data will move out of the corporate data center and into the cloud. This session presents the views of four major suppliers of cloud infrastructure, looking at their strategy for the cloud, their product pipelines, and where cloud-based services will be heading in the future. It will provide information on what storage services should deployed beyond the data center, on whether to choose public or private clouds, and on where the dangers (and opportunities) lie.

Bio: Mike Karp is vice president and principal analyst at Ptak Noel Associates, and founder of Infrastructure Analytics. Although Mike has been an industry analyst for the last nine years, he has spent most of his 30-year career in the real world, working at large firms and startups that include Prime Computer, Symbios Logic, and Bellcore. Much of his interest, writing and research focuses on driving efficiency into data center operations, on digital archiving, and on reducing the agonies associated with managing complex systems. Mike also has been known to look at the impact of technology on both technologists and on society at large, and often considers technology’s relationship with the social infrastructure. His writing on storage and how storage delivers value to the business process is widely available on the web. He tweets as StorageWonk.