Our Day-Long Seminars Help You Tackle Your Most Pressing ProjectsIntroducing 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 DateLocation
 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
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
eDiscovery - A Storage Decisions Seminar
Recent changes to the Federal Laws of Civil Procedure mandate specific requirements for the management of Electronically Stored Information (ESI). Either you comply, or the data you plan to use in your defense is inadmissible. This means you as a storage manager must be able to produce specific information in specific formats under a short and rigid deadline. Randolph A. Kahn, ESQ., author, educator, and founder of Kahn Consulting is here with this one-day seminar to make sure you survive discovery requests. Kahn will bring you tips on formulating an approach that satisfies not just compliance needs, but data retention demands and overall organizational efficiency. Click here for more details. DateLocation
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. Stephen Foskett, Director of Data Practice at Contoural 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
Advanced SAN School
Advanced SAN School will help storage managers work through many of the issues plaguing SANs today with an eye toward the SAN technologies of tomorrow. Ashish Nadkarni and Bill Peldzus of GlassHouse Technologies will provide advice and insight to help storage professionals manage, grow and optimize SAN technology. A popular presentation at the Storage Decisions conferences, Nadkarni and Peldzus will expand this popular presentation to a full-day of advice and insights to help storage managers to best manage, grow and optimize SAN technology. Click here for more details. DateLocation
Data Protection: Preventing Data and Loss
As a storage-focused IT professional, you've never needed to worry much about security. But as recent headlines attest, there are vulnerabilities under your domain that are being exposed -- causing lost or stolen data and all the headaches that go along with it. Spend a day along with your security team at this 2-track seminar, and you'll walk away with a greater understanding of the overall threat - and you'll have the foundation to build a framework to tighten up your operations. Click here for more details. Click here for more details. DateLocation
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.
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Storage Decisions Seminars
Backup School Hits the Road with W. Curtis Preston
Disaster Recovery Planning with Jon William Toigo
E-Mail and File Archiving with Mark Diamond
Advanced SAN School
with W. Curtis Preston
Storage Virtualization with Stephen Foskett
Vendor Events
DR/Business Continuity
Planning with Jon Toigo
sponsored by CDW
Data Classification with Greg Schulz sponsored by Incentra and HP
