Pub Talk

POWER PUB: TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2004
"AUTONOMIC DATA MANAGEMENT: ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYHOW….IS IT A REALISTIC EXPECTATION, EVEN TODAY?"
Pub Master: Mr. Collin Bruce, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Solid Information Technology
5:00 p.m.: Networking & Registration
5:30 p.m.: Pub Exchange
6:30 p.m.: Networking
7:00 p.m.: Pub Closes!
Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
Pre-registration is highly encouraged. Registration information below.
This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.

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We have become accustomed to picking up the telephone and always having a dial tone, whether we are at home or on the road. Turning on a radio and hearing a traffic report or having it pushed down to the DVD player in our car. Switching on the TV and seeing our favorite show or start our TiVo and watch at our leisure . . . without all the advertising! Clicking on an icon and always getting access to the Website we want.

Now we want more! The networks and the infrastructure that have to manage so many diverse devices are getting more and more complex, but are they ready for it? As bandwidth increases we expect our applications to be richer, always available, always accurate and accessible from any device we own, anywhere, anytime; is it all as simple to operate as a toaster? Is the infrastructure prepared for this? Are the applications content rich enough? Are we there yet, or what 's stopping us from getting there? Is autonomic data management ready for what we are asking of it?

GUIDING QUESTIONS FOR THE PUB EXCHANGE

• Data management is at the heart of today's "soft switched" infrastructures/environments. But how do we manage them for high availability -- 99.999% and better -- and still cover every device from the data center with its terra bytes of data to diskless mobile devices (your cell phone or Blackberry)?
• As I develop my distributed application, how do I keep all parts synchronized as I move from device to device or place to place?
• How do I recoup development time if I have to manage the infrastructure or the fundamental processes required for a complex multi-media application?

ABOUT COLLIN BRUCE

Collin Bruce is the Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Solid Information Technology headquartered in Mountain View, California. He recently joined Solid after a time back in sales for CIC where he focused on selling to major financial institutions like Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Prudential Insurance, HSBC and F500 institutions. Prior to that, he held various executive positions at Chordiant Software, Amdahl, SCO and Memorex.

ABOUT SOLID INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Solid Information Technology Corp (http://www.solidtech.com) is the first provider of an Autonomic Data Management Platform that supports the development of applications that are self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-protecting.

Solid provides a data management foundation for embedded and distributed applications that ensure that the data takes care of itself. This dramatically reduces development time and cost, reduces time to market, reduces total cost of system ownership, and provides a robust and flexible foundation for the development of new products and features.