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

Date	Location
Thu. Mar. 26	San Francisco, CA - Le Meridien
Wed. May 6	London, UK Hilton London Metropole
Thu. Jun. 11	New York, NY Westin New York
Tue. Aug. 11	Boston, MA Newton Marriott
Tue. Nov. 10	Los Angeles, CA

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During lean times, it is easy for organizations to slash, downsize or delay “non-essential” initiatives like disaster recovery planning.

But you know how essential a well-planned and tested DR plan is. So we’re bringing to you a free seminar that will (a) provide information to help you firm up your existing plan, (b) examine the process in different ways – and (c) help you prove the inherent value to the C-suite.

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 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. Toigo delivers sessions focusing on the following topics:

• Business resiliency
  Data protection techniques
  Moving from a paper plan to real world capability

Seating for this seminar is free for qualified IT professionals, but extremely limited. To claim your seat, apply today by calling Seminar Manager Steve Hart at (508)621-5540 or complete our quick online application.

Keynote Speaker

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

Jon Toigo is a consultant, author and writer with 25 years of experience in IT operations and data storage management.  He is the founder of the Data Management Institute, an organization for those who create, manage and protect their organizations’ most irreplaceable assets:  their data.  DMI has more than 7000 members, most of whom have completed DMI Certification courses in disaster recovery, data management and data security.

Toigo is a prolific author has written 15 books, including 5 covering the topic of disaster recovery planning.  He has also produced thousands of articles for the trade press and his blog, DrunkenData.com, is read by over 120,000 visitors each month. 

As part of his global consulting practice, he has developed, tested, and in some cases assisted with the implementation of, disaster recovery plans for more than 100 companies in the US, Europe, Africa, and Australia.

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.

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.

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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