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Get your DR Certification from Toigo's Data Management Institute!

Date	Location
Wed. Mar. 12	Seattle, WA W Seattle
Tue. Mar. 25	London, England Radisson SAS
Tue. Apr. 1	New York, NY Westin Times Square
Tue. Apr. 29	Philadelphia, PA Hilton City Avenue
Wed. Jun. 11	Columbus, OH Doubletree Hotel Columbus / Worthington
Tue. Aug. 12	Chicago, IL TBD
Tue. Sep. 9	San Francisco, CA TBD
Tue. Sep. 16	Toronto, ON TBD
Thu. Sep. 18	Boston, MA TBD

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"Jon [William Toigo] brings a lot of common sense to the DR approach-it is very simple, but very effective."

"It's great to meet other people who do the same things I do in the area. And Toigo's talking about some great information here."

"The honest opinions about the different technologies is what I appreciate the most. There's also a lot of great insight as to what's 'real' and what's not."

When you bring a maverick of the storage world like Jon William Toigo to speak about disaster recovery planning, the one thing that you don't have to worry about is him speaking his mind. Toigo "calls them like he sees them" and as you can tell from the above quotes, this has resonated well with your peers.

This year, Toigo is back with a completely updated seminar that will provide storage managers and DR planners with an inside look at what makes a solid DR plan. Often times disaster recovery plans tend to focus on technology “bolt on’s” designed to replicate data and infrastructure. Little attention is paid to building in recoverability – into business processes and their technological support systems – so to prevent the predominant form of interruption events: those related to data management.

This three part program seeks to reset the focus of disaster recovery and business continuity planning to embrace disaster prevention and to build in recovery from those disasters that cannot be prevented. Toigo will explain the best ways to make sure the data coming into a storage environment has the best chance of being recovered to a usable form, should disaster strike. He'll cover data classification modeling and the rigorous testing schedule companies should apply to all DR plans and systems.

When you leave the seminar you'll have a DR certification from Toigo's Data Management Institute.

North American Attendees Register Online Here.

Attention London Attendees:

We have taken our very successful North American Disaster Recovery seminar and expanded into London! Come see Dennis Szubert, and Clive Longbottom of Quocirca present 'Disaster Recover Planning.' This seminar features all of the highlights of our North American shows, but includes the local expertise and knowledge of two highly respected members of the Disaster Recovery world in Szubert and Longbottom. To learn more about the speakers, please click here.

London Attendees Register Online Here.

Keynote Speaker

Jon William Toigo, CEO and Managing Principal, Toigo Partners International, LLC

Jon William Toigo is CEO and Managing Principal of Toigo Partners International LLC, an independent consultancy and information technology research & analysis firm focused on providing meaningful guidance to IT consumers and decision makers. He is also chairman of The Data Management Institute LLC, a professional development organization he founded for those who design, plan, manage and administer storage infrastructure and data assets.

Jon is a 20-year IT veteran who has worked both as an operative within corporate information systems departments and as a senior consultant with two international systems integrators. He is also a prolific writer with 15 books and thousands of articles in the technology trade press to his credit. His technology columns in seven popular print and on-line media garner a loyal readership of more than 500,000 per month worldwide.

London Keynote Speakers

Dennis Szubert, Principal Analyst for Storage, Servers and Infrastructure, Quocirca

Dennis Szubert is a Principal Analyst at Quocirca, specialising in Server and Storage Platforms and Technical Architectures. Dennis has 18 years of IT-sector experience gained with end-users, as well as the vendor and consultancy arenas. Dennis has wide-ranging experience in IT implementation, both at the application development and service delivery levels. This experience has been built up across a number of industry sectors, including airlines and other transport, finance, utilities, manufacturing and market research, and he is familiar with many organisational structures for IT service delivery.

Most recently, Dennis worked for a management consultancy that specialised in data-driven analysis of clients’ IT operations, where he kept a keen eye on developments in data centre technologies, including mainframe, distributed servers and storage. Dennis’ experience has equipped him with an analytical approach coupled with a business-focus that enables him to see the practical impact of technology products and services on an organisation.

Clive Longbottom , Service Director for Business Process Facilitation, Quocirca

Clive Longbottom is Service Director for Business Processes Facilitation for Quocirca Ltd. In this role, he covers the needs for companies to understand the core processes in their value chains and the technologies that should be utilized to facilitate these processes in the most flexible and effective manner. Within his remit, Clive covers collaborative tools, workflow, business process discovery and management tools, service-based architectures and outsourcing.

Clive has been an ITC analyst for over 10 years. Clive’s background covers a mix of end-user experience as a process engineer in the chemical and research industries and ITC work and project management in large and medium sized organisations. His breadth of experience gives him a solid viewpoint on the pressures and problems impacting today’s businesses -- and keeps him from viewing technology as a solution in itself. Clive is an internationally recognised expert in business and ITC, as well as a regular presenter on public platforms.

Agenda

8:00 am Registration and Breakfast

9:00 am Welcome and Introductions

9:10 am Lesson one: Business Resiliency: The Context for Continuity

10:00 am Vendor Showcase (3 Presentations)

10:30 am Peer Networking/ Refreshment Break

11:00 am Lesson two: Data Protection Techniques

12:15 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Vendor Showcase

2:00 pm Lesson Three: From a Paper Plan to Real World Capability

3:00 pm Q&A, Raffle, Adjourn

Topics include:

Best practices and ways to achieve a cost-effective DR plan
Techniques for protecting data in place and for replicating it for recovery: hype and hope.
Data classification modeling
How to test DR plans and systems

Why you should attend:

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning has become a Front Office front burner issue in many companies as a function of both regulatory compliance requirements around data protection and common sense perception of the need to protect critical business processes and the data that support them. Unfortunately, much of the discussion of planning tends to focus on technology “bolt on’s” designed to replicate data and infrastructure. Little attention is paid to building in recoverability – into business processes and their technological support systems – so to prevent the predominant form of interruption events: those related to data management.

What you can expect

In each seminar in this series, your morning starts out with a full buffet breakfast and ends with a giveaway from our event sponsors. The agenda includes time for Q&A, networking opportunities and tons of valuable information -- and you get it all for FREE.

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