Free Admission to the 11th Annual CIFS Plugfest

[Mercurio, Lisa]

Dear Samba Member:

 

The Storage Networking Industry Association is proud to announce the
11th annual CIFS and 3rd annual iSCSI plugfests, taking place at the
2007 Storage Developer Conference - www.storage-developer.org
<http://www.storage-developer.org/> .

 

This event is being held at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose,
California, September 9 - 13, 2007.

 

These plugfests are a great opportunity to identify and fix
implementation problems and issues in a confidential, heterogeneous
environment.  Forums will be provided in which participating companies
can develop compatible CIFS and iSCSI products.  Past contributors have
included IBM, Sun, Network Appliance, EMC, Hewlett Packard, Quantel and
Broadcom.

 

Samba members/participants will be given free admission to the
conference and plugfest.

 

Here are just a few of the featured events at this year's conference:

 

Keynote speakers - Richard Stallman, Founder, GNU Project.  Paul Strong,
Research Scientist, eBay.

Conference Tracks - File & Object Storage, Advanced Technologies,
Storage Management, NFS, Storage Software, Security, iSCSI.

Featured Speakers - Lawrence Rosen, Rosenlaw & Einschlag, Jeff Bonwick,
Sun Microsystems.

Sponsor Showcase - Products and services you need to transform, upgrade
and improve your business.

 

 

Please contact Lisa Mercurio at Lisa.Mercurio at snia.org or (781) 293-9860
for more information on your participation.

For technical questions regarding the CIFS plugfest please contact Chris
Hertel at crh at samba.org <mailto:crh at samba.org?subject=CIFS_Plugfest> 

For technical questions regarding the iSCSI plugfest please contact
Randy Mayhew at plugfest2007-techinfo at comcast.net
<mailto:plugfest2007-techinfo at comcast.net?subject=CIFS_Plugfest> 

For Sponsorship opportunities, please contact Derek Jenkins at (781)
812-2886 Derek.Jenkins at snia.org

 

Looking forward to seeing you in San Jose!

 

www.storage-developer.org
<http://www.storage-developer.org/events/storage-developer/pricing/> 

 

www.snia.org <http://www.snia.org/> 

 

 

Lisa M. Mercurio

Sr. Manager, Conferences & Business Development

Storage Networking Industry Association

Phone:  (781) 293-9860

Fax:      (781) 293-9805

Email:   lisa.mercurio at snia.org <mailto:lisa.mercurio at snia.org> 

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