Our Day-Long Seminars Help You Tackle Your Most Pressing Projects

Introducing Storage Decisions seminars, day-long training and informational sessions that will help solve your most pressing storage challenges.

Each of these seminars incorporates the same high quality information and independent expert point-of-view that make the Storage Decisions conference the best three days you can spend out of the office. But these seminars focus on just one topic – allowing the expert presenter to drill deep into the issue and ensure that you walk away with thorough, actionable information that you can put to use the very next day.

And each seminar features more than a dozen solution providers in that specific market in the exhibit area with information about their products. So you not only get objective information on how to tackle the specific challenge -- you also get a complete view of the product landscape.

Backup School Hits the Road
Data Deduplication
Disaster Recovery Planning
Storage Virtualization
Email and File Archiving

DateLocation
Thu. Mar. 12 Boston, MA
Tue. Mar. 17 Chicago, IL
Thu. Mar. 19 Kansas City, KS
Tue. Apr. 21 Seattle, WA
Thu. Apr. 30 Los Angeles, CA
Thu. May 14 Raleigh, NC
Tue. May 19 Dallas, TX
Thu. Jun. 18 Minneapolis, MN
Tue. Jun. 23 London, UK
Thu. Jun. 25 The Netherlands
Thu. Jul. 23 San Francisco, CA
Tue. Jul. 28 Phoenix, AZ
Thu. Jul. 30 Atlanta, GA
Thu. Aug. 6 San Diego, CA
Tue. Aug. 18 Cleveland, OH
Mon. Aug. 31 Denver, CO
Tue. Oct. 20 Columbus, OH
Tue. Oct. 27 Houston, TX
Thu. Oct. 29 Washington, D.C
Thu. Nov. 5 Orlando, FL
Thu. Nov. 12 Philadelphia, PA
Thu. Dec. 10 New York, NY

Backup School Hits the Road

If you're looking to make backup operations easier to manage and more reliable, join author and Storage Decisions speaker, W. Curtis Preston for Backup School Hits the Road. Preston has written "Using SANs and NAS and Unix Backup and Recovery," the seminal O'Reilly book on backup and has been designing storage systems for more than 10 years. His clients run the gamut, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies. With his experience, we guarantee it will make backup less of a headache. Click here for more details.

DateLocation
Thu. Mar. 26 San Francisco, CA
Wed. May 6 London, UK
Thu. Jun. 11 New York, NY
Tue. Aug. 11 Boston, MA
Tue. Nov, 10 Los Angeles, CA

Disaster Recovery Planning

New approaches to disaster recovery planning can make a huge difference in recovering data more efficiently and in a useable form. Uncovering these approaches is quite possibly the leading expert in DR, Jon William Toigo. He is a 25-year veteran of disaster recovery planning and a consultant on business automation issues for both vendors and consumers of information technology. A prolific author, journalist and IT industry speaker, Toigo has written over 1,000 articles covering varied aspects of storage, infrastructure and business automation. Click here for more details.

DateLocation
Tue. Mar. 3 New York, NY
Tue. May 5 San Diego, CA
Tue. Aug. 18 Chicago, IL
Thu. Oct. 22 Boston, MA

Storage Virtualization

During this one-day event you will hear how virtualization has progressed from vaporware to an actual concept storage managers are using to minimize the amount of machines needed to manage, centralize data and change the economics of storage. Marc Staimer, CDS of Dragon Slayer Consulting, will also look at how storage virtualization makes heterogeneous storage compatible, eases data migration and enables consolidation. While virtualization is still a burgeoning technology for storage, the merits are many. Understanding the benefits and drawbacks of virtualization can help streamline your storage environment. Click here for more details.

DateLocation
Tue. May 19 Washington, DC
Tue. Jul. 21 New York, NY
Wed. Sept. 2 Lodon, UK
Tue. Sept. 29 San Francisco, CA
Thu. Nov. 12 Dallas, TX

Email and File Archiving

At this seminar with independent experts and Storage Decisions speakers Mark Diamond and Bill Tolson of Contoural, find out how an email and file archiving strategy can help you deal with the issues resulting from the explosive growth of email and files. Learn how you can reduce storage, quickly respond to litigation

and compliance problems, increase IT productivity and reduce backup and restore time. Diamond is a noted speaker and CEO of Contoural, a leading independent business and technological consulting service. His company helps numerous Fortune 500 companies reduce risk, ensure compliance and lower costs in complying with new requirements for saving email. An author with an extensive knowledge on email and file archiving, Tolson has more than fifteen years experience in the storage industry including storage solutions like email archiving, file archiving, enterprise content management, and information lifecycle management. Click here for more details.

DateLocation
Tue. Feb. 17 St. Louis, MO
Thu. Feb. 19 San Antonio, TX
Thu. Feb. 26 London, UK
Thu. May 7 Birmingham, AL
Thu. May 21 Miami, FL
Wed. May 27 Milwaukee, WI
Thu. May 28 Pittsburg, PA
Thu. Jun. 4 San Jose, CA
Thu. Aug. 13 Irvine, CA
Thu. Aug. 20 Rochester, NY
Tue. Aug. 25 Hartford, CT
Thu. Aug. 27 Memphis, TN
Wed. Sept. 9 Las Vegas, NV
Thu. Sept. 10 Tampa, FL
Thu. Oct. 8 Charlotte, NC
Tue. Oct. 13 Detroit, MI
Thu. Oct. 15 Salt Lake City, UT
Tue. Nov. 3 Louisville, KY
Tue. Dec. 8 Reston, VA
Tue. Dec. 15 Albuquerque, NM

Data Deduplication

The Data Deduplication Seminar is for storage pros like you who are looking to fight the rising tide of data growth by using data reduction technologies, like data deduplication.

But while deduplication is a great idea and a fairly straightforward concept, choosing and deploying it as a solution is complicated at best.

So to help, we’re bringing W. Curtis Preston -- the world’s leading expert on backup technology and practice – to conduct a half-day seminar to answer all your questions about this exciting storage trend.

Attend and be adequately prepared to implement data deduplication in your storage environment. And to reap the benefits associated with the more efficient use of disk space that results.Click here for more details.