Data Management & Storage Technology

October 2002

The inaugural Business Briefing: Data Management & Storage Technology is designed to provide comprehensive analysis and insight into the challenges and opportunities available within the international data storage sector. The report will focus on issues that corporations worldwide are faced with in today's rapidly changing environment as the amount of data exponentially increases and the need to store and retrieve information becomes essential to gain and maintain a competitive edge.

Business Briefing: Data Management & Storage Technology will focus on the strategic, business, technical and management issues within the global data management and data storage industries, and brings together major industry professionals to discuss and report on the advances in data management and storage technology.

The publication is geared to provide comprehensive information and data while directly linking the suppliers of technology and services to international technical and corporate buyers.

The report includes an exclusive CD-ROM with further in-depth industry articles, resources and sponsorship opportunities containing corporate and marketing material.

 
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The Book Contents

Advisory Panel
Foreword

The Three Aspects of Data Management and Storage Technology
Michael Brackett President, Data Management Association (DAMA) International

Overview

99.999% — A Recurring Nightmare or a Channel Opportunity?
Andrew Batty Chairman, Fibre Channel Industry Association Europe (FCIAE)

Data Management

Data Modelling

A Briefing on Business Processes
Alec Sharp Former President, British Columbia Chapter, Data Administration and Management Association (DAMA)

Metadata

Six Degrees of Separation — Australian Metadata Initiatives and Their Relationships with International Standards
Adrian Cunningham Director, Government Recordkeeping Division Standards and Policy, National Archives of Australia (NAA)

Strategies for Implementation of Operational Metadata in the Data Warehouse
Michael Jennings Contributing Author, Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository, and Architect and Technology Manager, Hewitt Associates

Data Warehousing

New Challenges in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Dr Carsten Bange and Jörg Narr Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Principal Consultant, Business Application Research Center (BARC)

Mistakes to Avoid if your Data Warehouse is to Deliver Quality Information
Larry P English Author, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality and President and Principal, INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc.

Data Security

Security is Essential to Data Management
Michael J Alvarado Chair, Storage Security Industry Forum, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

Technology Overview

Storage Area Network

Implementing Storage Area Network Technology in a Mission-critical Environment
Malcolm Wade Senior Systems Engineer, Australian Stock Exchange

System Area Network Routing Switches — Foundation for the Storage Grid
Steven L Denegri, Robert M Montague and Thomas H Curlin RBC Capital Markets

Fibre Channel — A Stable Workhorse Storage Technology with a Bright Future
Jay Kramer and Tony DiCenzo Former Member, and Chairman, Board of Directors, Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA)

SCSI & iSCSI

Small Computer System Interface — The Perpetual Storage Input/Output Technology
Harry Mason President, SCSI Trade Association

Ethernet and Internet Protocol-based Network Storage
Patrick Khoo Program Manager, Modular Connected Storage Architecture Group, Network Storage Technology Division, Data Storage Institute

Optical Storage

Optical Technology for Storing Computer Data and Images
Dr Susanna Orlic Teaching Assistant, Institute of Optics, Technical University of Berlin

Storage Application Overview

Disaster Recovery & Back-up

Business Continuity Planning — People, Paraphernalia and Paper
Doug Sievers Information Director, Business Continuity Planners Association (BCPA)

Software & Management

Storage Architecture in this Decade
Jack Scott Chairman, Emerging Technology Advisory Group, Association for Information Management and Image Management International (AIIM)

CRM

Customer Analytics Making the Difference in Customer Relationship Management
Mike Schroeck Partner and Global Leader, iAnalytics, PwC Consulting



The CD Contents

The Publication

The contents of the book is reproduced on the CD ROM for convenience.

Reference Section

Using Automation to Streamline Operations and Expand Programming Case Study — HoustonPBS
Jeff Clarke Chief Executive Officer and General Manager, KUHT, HoustonPBS


Six Degrees of Separation — Australian Metadata Initiatives and Their Relationships with International Standards

Adrian Cunningham Director, Government Recordkeeping Division Standards and Policy, National Archives of Australia (NAA)

System Area Network Routing Switches — Foundation for the Storage Grid
Steven L Denegri, Robert M Montague and Thomas H Curlin RBC Capital Markets

Comprehensive Data Archiving, Retrieval, Transfer and Report Generation in Modern High-throughput Drug Discovery Operations
John P Helfrich Author, Raw Data to Knowledge Warehouse in Proteomic-based Drug Discovery

Siege Warfare in the Internet Age
Professor Greg Ganger and Joan Digney Parallel Data Lab (PDL), Carnegie Mellon University

A Peer-to-peer Mobile Storage System
Dr Randolph Wang, Nitin Garg, Yilei Shao, Elisha Ziskind, Sumeet Sobti, Fengzhou Zheng, Junwen Lai and Arvind Krishnamurthy Princeton University

The Significance of Abstraction and Metadata for the Computer-based Patient Record — Applied in Structured Data Entry
Astrid Maria van Ginneken Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University

Procurement Data Warehousing — How to Navigate Within Global Procurement
Kirsten Lei Hansen and Thomas Skjøtt-Larsen Management Consultants, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Strategies for Implementation of Operational Metadata in the Data Warehouse

Michael Jennings Architect and Technology Manager, Hewitt Associates

Putting CRM Technology to Work: Decision-making in an Unstable Environment
Ruud W G Koreman Senior Business Consultant, The Customer Care Company

Making Documents Intelligent and Secure Using XML
Alexander Korzyk Assistant Professor, Department of Business, College of Business and Economics, University of Idaho

Fibre Channel — A Stable Workhorse Storage Technology with a Bright Future
Jay Kramer and Tony DiCenzo Former Member, and Chairman, Board of Directors, Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA)

Integration of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Systems in Hospitals
Dr Richard Lenz and Klaus A Kuhn Research Assistant, Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Marburg

Customer Relationship Management
Mark Nielson National Bourd of Directors, American Electronics Association

Current Trends in Web Engineering — The Challenge of New Ideas
Dr Oscar Pastor Head, Computation and Information Systems Department, Valencia University of Technology

Storage Architecture in this Decade
Jack Scott Chairman, Emerging Technology Advisory Group, Association for Information Management and Image Management International (AIIM)

Advancing the State of Data Integration in Healthcare
Joyce Sensmeier Director of Professional Services, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

The Five Waves of Customer Relationship Management — How CRM Functionality and Architecture Have Evolved
Patricia B Seybold Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Patricia Seybold Group and Author, customer.com

NAS Aggregation — File-sharing and Storage Consolidation sans Aggravation
Dan Tanner Director, Storage Research, Aberdeen Group, Inc.

Optical Data Links for Mobile Systems
Dr Eberhard Zeeb Head, Optical Interconnects and Optical Sensors Department, DaimlerChrysler Research Center

Directory of Contacts

Events and Conferences


Technology and Services Section

3M Telecommunications
3M Volition Network Solutions in Storage Area Networks

Adaptec, Inc.
iSCSI Delivers Storage Over Ethernet

CreekPath Systems, Inc.
The Need for Policy-Based Management Software in Storage Area Networks

EDS
Agility, Innovation and Excellence — How the Leading Global Services Company Delivers

Hewlett-Packard Company
Storage Virtualisation and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array

Hitachi Data Systems
Towards a New Era of Storage Management

I3 solutions
New Ways to Improve and Manage Data Availability

Infinity I/O
The Impact of the Certification Wave on the Technology Supply Chain

Intel
Rightsizing Fibre Channel in Direct-attached Storage/Storage Area Network Solutions

Network Appliance, Inc.
Nearline Storage Solutions — The New Paradigm for Data Back-up and Recovery

Newcom Information Systems B.V.
Increasing the Business Value with a Data Warehouse Assessment

OnStream Data BV
OnStream’s 60GB and 120GB Digital Tape Drives — Providing Ultimate Back-up Solutions for Server Back-up

Pirus Networks, Inc.
Intelligent Storage Switching — Convergence Towards an Intelligent Infrastructure

Princeton Softech, Inc.
Active Archiving and Storage Technology

Promise Technology EMEA
Promise Technology — The Arrival of Serial-ATA

Sun Microsytems Ltd
Data Storage — Understanding the Real Costs

Tricord Systems, Inc.
High-availability Network Attached Storage Fundamentals

VERITAS Software Corporation
What is Storage Virtualization?


Sponsor Section

3M Telecommunications
Adaptec, Inc.
Amphenol Interconnect Products Corporation
CreekPath Systems, Inc.
Data Matters BV
EDS
European Banking Technology Fair
FCIA
FCIA Europe
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hitachi Data Systems
I3 solutions
IBM
Infinity I/O
Intel - Storage Components Division
IRM UK / DAMA International / Information Impact International
IT-Data B.V.
Network Appliance
Newcom Information Systems B.V.
OnStream Data
PERFECTUS Technology Inc.
Pirus Networks
Princeton Softech
ProAct IT Group AB
Promise Technology EMEA
Quantum Corporation
SCSI Trade Association
SONY Business Europe
Sun Microsystems
Tricord Systems, Inc.
VERITAS Software Ltd.
VERITAS Software Corporation
Zycko Ltd.


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