Dave Hitz, NetApp's Founder and Executive Vice President, to Deliver Keynote at Business Development Networking Event
SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - January 4, 2010) - NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) co-founder and
executive vice president, Dave Hitz, headlines a list of NetApp events will
attend in January 2010 with his keynote address at The Business Development
Networking Event (TheBDEvent). NetApp will also sponsor a workshop at the
16th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer
Architecture.
TheBDEvent
Dave Hitz, cofounder and executive vice president at NetApp, will deliver a
keynote at The Business Development Networking Event (TheBDEvent), an
exclusive industry-insiders only business development event designed to
jump start 2010's strategic business development activities early in the
new year. The event will be limited to 200 storage, networking, security
and virtualization, and cloud executives and provide high-quality education
and networking opportunities for vendor companies. TheBDEvent takes place
January 26-28, 2010, in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit:
www.thebdevent.com/.
HPCA Workshop
NetApp is one of the sponsors of a half-day workshop focused on emerging
storage and memory technologies at the 16th IEEE International Symposium on
High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) event. The International
Symposium on HPCA provides a high-quality forum for scientists and
engineers to present their latest research findings on all aspects of
high-performance computer architecture. The HPCA 2010 takes place January
9, 2010 in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit:
www.cse.psu.edu/hpcl/hpca16.html.
Recent Industry Activity
In December 2009, Val Bercovici, NetApp Office of the CTO, presented a
Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) webcast on data center
transformation and cloud computing. In this webcast, Bercovici discussed
how to use existing infrastructure with new technologies such as
virtualization, data deduplication, and cloud Storage to maximize ROI. To
view the webcast, visit: www.brighttalk.com/webcasts/7950/play.
Recently, several NetApp employees were appointed leadership positions
within the SNIA. Denise Ridolfo, Office of the CTO and Industry and
Standards Operations manager at NetApp, was elected to the SNIA Europe
Board of Directors as secretary and marketing chair for EMEA. The Board of
Directors works to deliver on SNIA Europe's mission to promote the
acceptance, deployment, and confidence in open storage-related
architectures, systems, services, and technologies, across the IT and
business community. For more information, visit: www.snia-europe.org.
Alan Yoder, office of the CTO at NetApp, was elected to the SNIA Storage
Management Initiative (SMI) Governing Board as a member at large. The SMI
Governing Board sets the SMI's business and strategic direction, assures
its fiscal health, and oversees the operations of its subcommittees and
projects. The SMI Governing Board is also responsible for the SMI Strategic
Plan Overview, the overall budget for SMI, and all business conducted by
the Initiative. For more information about SNIA, visit: www.snia.org/.
For more information about NetApp industry standards efforts to help rapid
application deployment, smooth integration into customers' existing
infrastructures, and improve interoperability with other vendors' solutions
by utilizing and supporting open standards, visit
www.netapp.com/us/company/leadership/industry-standards.
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