SNW Proposal Submission Information

• Call for Proposals for SNIA Tutorials
• Call for SNW Proposals

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Call for Proposals for SNIA Tutorials at SNW

Conference Dates: April 12 – 15, 2010
Location: Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel, Orlando, Florida USA

You are invited to submit a proposal to present a SNIA Tutorial at the upcoming SNW Conference, April 12 – 15, 2010, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel, Orlando Florida USA. Produced and co–owned by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), SNW is the largest and most proven educational forum for IT End–Users involved in storage networking, enterprise infrastructure, and data center management.

Important Dates:

• Proposal Submissions: December 12, 2009
• Notification of Proposal Acceptance/Rejection: January 11, 2010

SNIA TECHNICAL TUTORIALS

Developed by SNIA member participants, all SNIA Tutorials are peer–reviewed by members of the SNIA. Submissions are typically (but not exclusively) made by SNIA members, including vendors, training companies, analysts, consultants, and end–users. Given the technical education nature of these sessions, some topics may be covered in multiple, successive sessions with increasing complexity. Organized by track, SNIA Tutorials are vendor–neutral and are designed to give a consensus, industry view of particular topics of contemporary concern to the industry and its customers. Tutorials are jointly owned by the SNIA and the author and are produced, branded, and delivered by the SNIA.

SNIA Tutorials selected for SNW are presented in the following track categories:

Cloud Storage and Emerging Technologies
Data Management and Data Protection
File Systems and File Management
Green Storage
Networking
Security
Solid State Storage
Storage and Storage Management
Virtualization

Topics: What are we currently looking for?

We are looking for submissions that present technical and business issues in a fair and unbiased, vendor–neutral manner, with particular interest in the following topics:

• Green Storage and conservation/minimization of resources associated with storage
• Methods and techniques associated with information preservation and retention
• Cloud–based storage infrastructure, process, and practice
• Storage management best practices, including strategies and tactics, from a user perspective and also from an implementer’s perspective (VAR, integrator, etc.)
• Best practices and storage management disciplines in organizations of any size
• The future of storage management, including new implementations of storage management and how they fit in with current strategies and operations; and exploring SNIA members’ vision of topics like advanced SMI–S, storage management in small-medium enterprises and businesses, storage management integration with virtualization, storage management and security, storage management and data protection, etc.
• File systems and file management Application Usage of Virtual Infrastructure, especially in hypervisor and virtual storage environments
• Solid State Storage usage and application

Speaker Requirements

Before submitting your proposal, please note the following:

• All presentations must be vendor neutral.
• Presentations are prepared using the SNIA Tutorial PowerPoint template. References to vendor names, products, services and/or brand names are prohibited.
• Proposals are reviewed and evaluated by the SNIA Education Committee, Tutorial Chair, Tutorial Track Managers, and existing Tutorial authors.
• Acceptance is contingent upon completion of the following electronic signed agreements:
  • Copyright Agreement (authors and co–authors)
  • Speaker Information Audio/Video Agreement
  • FAQ for SNIA Tutorials. The FAQ addresses general questions and provides information related to developing, reviewing and presenting SNIA Tutorials. All participants must agree and adhere to these policies.
• Review the latest SNIA Tutorials at www.snia.org/education/tutorials.

Proposal Submissions

Click on this link to submit your proposals:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=QBSosOgKoXpkbqpylO0shQ_3d_3d

Additional SNIA Presentation Opportunities . . .

The SNIA Storage Developer Conference (SDC), September 20 – 23, 2010, Santa Clara, California. Watch for details coming soon!
To review SDC 2009 visit http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2009/

Please direct all inquiries to the SNIA Education Program Manager.
Thank you in advance for your proposal submission.

The SNIA Education Committee

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Speaking Proposals for SNW Spring - Deadline December 4th

Submit Your Proposal to Speak at SNW Spring 2010
April 12-15 in Orlando, FL

Please consider proposing a presentation for the upcoming SNW Spring 2010 (April 12–15, 2010, at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida).

Produced by IDG’s Computerworld and co–owned by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), SNW is the largest and most proven educational forum for IT End–Users involved in information management, storage networking, enterprise infrastructure, and data center management.

Delivered in a vendor–neutral/product–agnostic environment, case studies or technology update sessions focus on real–world deployments and/or methods and best practices to evaluate new, existing or future solutions. We are accepting case study proposals from both IT end–user executives and managers, as well as commercial–free technology update sessions from vendor executives and industry analysts. To encourage contemporary content, we request that all proposals discuss fresh deployments not yet presented at other events.

Once received by deadline, presentation submissions are scored, ranked and selected by the SNW Agenda Committee based on suitability and adherence to submission guidelines. At the conference, all presentations are made available (with the permission of the presenter) on the SNW Website.

SNW case studies can be proposed in the track areas below and submitted online at
http://presenters.computerworld.com/2010/SNW/

Deadline is December 4, 2009

Vertical Technology Topics:
• Business Continuity: Protection, Archiving, Backup and Recovery
• Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing
• Cloud Service Providers / Managed Service Providers
• Converged Data Center Networks
• Data Archiving and Digital Preservation
• Data Center / IT Infrastructure
• Data Governance / Regulatory / Compliance / E–Discovery
• Data Lifecycle Management
• Data Storage–as–a–Service (DaaS) and Cloud
• Data Security / Data Encryption
• Data Tagging and Search
• Emerging Technologies and Services
• Green Storage / Energy Efficient IT / Green Computing
• Enterprise Content Management / Document Management
• High Performance Computing
• Information and IT Security
• Information Management
• Managing Complexity
• Mobility Management
• Networking
• Prosumer / SoHo and The Enterprise
• SaaS and Data Migration
• Solid State Storage
• Storage Resource Management
• System Integration / Corporate IT Architecture / SOA
• Virtual Data Center / Outsourcing / Hybrid Cloud
• Virtualized Environments and Storage / Server Virtualization

Hot Technology Topics:
• Consumerization of Technology
• Data Center Design and Consolidation
• Optimization / Automation
• Private / Public Cloud
• Virtualization (especially Desktop Virtualization and Management/Security of Expanding Virtualized Compute/Storage)

Hot Management Topics:
• Aligning IT Strategy with Strategic Business Directions
• Crisis Management After Data Loss/Theft
• Data and IT Infrastructure TCO / ROI
• Global Economic Shifts and IT Resources
• Homegrown Solutions and Open Sources to Save the Bottom Line
• Managing Unbridled Information Growth
• Off shoring / Outsourcing / Virtualized Data Centers and Data Ownership
• Procurement, Vendor Selection, and Managing for Results

Interested in submitting a proposal for a SNIA Tutorial?
You may also submit a proposal to the SNIA to prepare and present a SNIA Tutorial at SNW. For information please see http://www.snia.org/about/calendar/snia_events/snw_call/ Deadline is December 12th.

Thank you for your support of SNW and the SNIA. We look forward to receiving your proposal.