We attended the Academy event at the Sheraton Hotel in Rome’s EUR district.

The following topics were covered throughout the day:

Storage Management: From SMI-S to Management Frameworks

Fabio de Ronchis – Senior Pre-Sales Engineer, NetApp

Introduction to Storage Security
, Sandro de Santis—Certified IT Specialist, IBM

Storage Virtualization I: What , Why, Where, and How?
Roberto Salucci – Solutions Consultant, HDS

Metropolitan & Wide Area, Storage Area Networks
, Luca Ferri – Enterprise Sales Engineer, Brocade

Solving the Coming Archive Crisis
, Walter Moriconi – Storage Product Marketing, SUN Microsystems

Virtual Storage Networks
, Luciano Pomelli – Data Center Networking CSE, Cisco

SNIA Software and XAM
, Marco Spoldi—Chairman of SNIA Europe

Information Classification: The Cornerstone of Information Management
Maurizio Paci, End User Liaison, SNIA Europe Italian Committee

In the Vendors area, we met some truly interesting companies and individuals in the fields of storage and storage networking; for example, here are a few:

LeftHandNetwork SAN/iQ

Isilon Storage Cluster

Pillar Data System
features a highly innovative system for distributing data across disk surfaces based on performance requirements, in order to take advantage of the faster access speeds between the outer and inner surfaces of the media.