SNIA is a proud sponsor of the Storage Visions Conference, a partner program of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Storage Visions, held in Las Vegas right before CES on January 3-5, 2016, is the place to explore the latest information on the rapidly evolving technology of digital storage and how it impacts consumer electronics, the internet of things, and storage in the cloud.
SNIA will exhibit at Storage Visions on booths 204-208, featuring the latest on Solid State Storage, and certification activities.
Over the next week, the SNIA on Storage blog will highlight the sessions in SNIA Education Day, a pre-conference event on January 3, 2016 that gives Storage Visions attendees vendor-neutral technical education on key storage issues. If you have not registered for Storage Visions, head over to http://www.storagevisions.com for the conference preview and registration.
SNIA Tutorial Privacy vs. Data Protection examines the impact of European Union data protection legislation. Attendees will learn how, after reviewing the diverging data protection legislation in the EU member states, the European Commission (EC) decided that this situation would impede the free flow of data within the EU zone. The EC response was to undertake an effort to harmonize the data protection regulations and it started the process by proposing a new data protection framework. The tutorial will discuss the impacts of this proposal on data handling practices, as it includes some significant changes like defining a data breach to include data destruction, adding the right to be forgotten, adopting the U.S. practice of breach notifications, and many other new elements. Another major change is a shift from a directive to a rule which means the protections are the same for all 28 countries and includes significant financial penalties for infractions.
Tutorial presenter Thomas Rivera has over 29 years of experience in the storage industry, specializing in file services and data protection, and is a Senior Technology Associate with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). Thomas is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), serving as secretary of the SNIA Board of Directors, participating as co-chair of the Data Protection & Capacity Optimization (DPCO) Committee, and is also a member of the Analytics & Big Data Committee, as well as the Storage Security Technical Working Group (TWG).
SNIA Tutorials are an important element of the SNIA Education continuum of Certification, Curriculum, and Tutorials. SNIA Tutorials are educational materials developed by vendors, training companies, analysts, consultants, and end-users in the storage networking industry. They are intended to present technical and business issues covering Information Technology in a fair and unbiased manner, and designed to give a consensus view of particular topics, from the viewpoint of the entire industry or a significant segment. View the entire array of SNIA Education at http://www.snia.org/education.