Leading Financial Services Executives Take On the Importance of Securing Customer Information at Dow Jones Datacenter Ventures Conference

Market Wire, August, 2006

Pia Jorgensen, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Washington Mutual, and Rob Reeg, chief technology officer at MasterCard, will together tackle the issues related to obtaining, storing and securing customer data at this year's Datacenter Ventures Conference, Sept. 20 and 21, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose.

Discussing how they protect their most valuable assets -- customers' private information -- as well as addressing the costs of updating storage data centers, these two financial services executives will be interviewed on stage by Russell Garland, editor of the Venture Capital Analyst: Technology edition.

Datacenter Ventures, now in its fifth year, also features more than sixty chief executives from the most promising start-up companies in storage and security, presenting their business plans to discuss innovations and efficiencies in storage and security.

Attendees also will hear from top executives at EMC and Symantec in keynote interviews that will provide broad industry perspective and identify areas of emerging opportunity for venture-capital investors and start-up companies.

--  Jeremy Burton, senior vice president of enterprise security and data
    management at Symantec, will sit down with Vauhini Vara of The Wall Street
    Journal to give his views on where the market for securing and managing
    enterprise data is heading.
--  David Donatelli, executive vice president of storage platform
    operations for EMC, will be interviewed by Christopher Lawton of The Wall
    Street Journal about networked storage and the emerging opportunities in
    the industry.
    

The conference also includes a presentation from David Mazieres, assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. Prof. Mazieres' research focuses on computer systems and security and he will be discussing his current work on Asbestos, an operating system designed to contain and isolate untrusted code.

For more information about Datacenter Ventures, call (866) 291-1800 or go to http://datacenterventures.dowjones.com/ .

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