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Keynote Luncheon

Tuesday, August 29, 2017
12:30pm – 2:00pm

Grand Ballroom, Third Floor

“Data Storage at the Edge and Beyond” Mark Re

Biography: Mark Re is Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Research and CTO and SVP R&D
Development at Seagate Technology. He is responsible for driving research on new technologies Seagate Technology
while also overseeing the hard disk drive component research and development teams. Over the Fremont, California
course of a 14 years career at Seagate, Re has held many different leadership roles, including: SVP
of R&D Media, Media Operations, Design Centers, and Heads R&D.

Prior to joining Seagate, Re served as SVP of Research and Development at Read-Rite in Fremont,
California. Earlier career highlights include management positions at IBM in San Jose, California,
and Yorktown Heights, New York, where Re’s primary focus was magnetic recording heads.
During this time, Re was named an IBM Distinguished Engineer in 1997.

Re holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a
bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.

Abstract: It’s no surprise that our world will be awash in data in 2025, but what is startling is
volume of data. IDC estimated that we will generate163 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. This is a
ten-fold increase over what was created in 2016.

In this talk, Dr. Re will summarize where this data is coming from within the framework of Core,
Edge and Endpoint devices. The Edge will become more sophisticated with autonomous vehicles,
drones, robotics and IoT devices that will collect and generate data that needs to be processed
and stored in real time. Effectively, these devices will be like “data centers” in a distributed
compute/storage infrastructure.

In this timeframe; around 60% of storage capacity will still need to come from the HDD industry
and 30% from solid-state technology. Dr. Re will share the hard disk drive (HDD) roadmaps
addressing the capacity and performance challenges for designing and manufacturing storage
products for the data explosion at the Edge and beyond.

Finally, to keep up with the 163 zettabyte growth at the Edge and beyond, hard disk drive
companies need to immediately launch new component and drive technologies like Heat Assisted
Magnetic Recording (HAMR). Dr. Re’s talk will cover HAMR accomplishments and productization
timeline.

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