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October 22, Monday
12:00 – 14:00

New technologies and new use paradigms are revolutionizing IT and creating challenging technical opportunities. New disk technologies, ranging from slow and inexpensive large SATA drives to very fast and very expensive solid state drives create unique opportunities to improve performance and reduce cost simultaneously. Automatic Tiered Storage is a promising new technology, but it is in its infancy, and a lot of more research is required to explore its full potential. The move to virtual data centers and Cloud, and with that the elimination of the role of the expert storage administrator, requires a leap in how storage systems are managed. Storage systems need to be wise enough to automatically achieve performance goals, be aware of their environments and improve over time. The talk will focus on the new challenges that IT vendors like EMC face today in optimizing the use of the new technologies and addressing the needs of the new users of IT. Another focus is on how academia can help us address these challenges.