The audience for this conference comprises the IT storage development community -- primarily storage software and hardware developers, storage product and solution architects, storage software engineers, product managers, storage product quality assurance engineers, product line CTOs, storage product customer support engineers, and in-house IT development staff. In addition to software and hardware vendors, end user IT managers/directors and staff will find the expertise required to select, implement and then support storage and information management applications.

The SDC agenda offers world-class industry updates, education, and our acclaimed Hands-on-Lab for Developers (HoLD) covering critical areas of interest within the storage development, networking, data security, and information management topic areas. The content addresses the technical and knowledge needs of our targeted audience—delivered and demonstrated at SDC—in order to equip attendees from vendors, to large enterprises and organizations, to small and medium businesses with the insight and expertise they require to do their jobs efficiently.
The following is an example of topics that will be addressed:

• CIFS/SMB/SMB2
• Common Internet File System (CIFS)
• iSCSI
• eXtensible Access Method (XAM)
• Green Technologies
• Network File System (NFS)
• Fibre Channel Protocols
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• Storage Ready for Virtualization Platforms
• Storage for Grid/Utility Computing
• Open Source
• Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S)
• Information and Data Management Technologies
• Storage Security
• Enterprise, Small and Medium Business Solutions
• Emerging Storage and Data Technologies