Conference: Storage Track

Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 31-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is a member of the SNIA Board of Directors, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a nine-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University's Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization.

Patty Then is senior product marketing manager for CA's Recovery Management solution. Patty has more than 25 years of IT industry experience and has worked in various capacities including technical systems engineering, management, sales and education.

Sheila Childs Director, Software Product Marketing EMC Information Management Software Group Sheila Childs is a Director of Marketing in EMC?s Content Management Software Group, a worldwide leader in the development and delivery of enterprise content management and archiving solutions. Sheila has held technical and management positions in product strategy, product development, product management and customer support/services. She has delivered value-focused storage management software for backup/recovery, HSM, remote device access, device and media management, SAN management and most recently, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). Sheila has been involved with the Storage Networking Industry Association as a participant in technical working groups, on various committees and as a Board member. She co-chaired the Interoperability Committee from 1999-2001, which has brought successful interoperability demos to a number of Storage Networking World conferences, and initiated the SNIA-Conformance Test Program (SNIA-CTP). She has been active in many initiatives including the startup of the Technology Center and the SNIA Storage Management Initiative. She has been a member of the Board of Directors for four years; her elected positions include a year as Vice Chair and two years as Chairman. She chaired the SNIA Data Management Forum in 2005.