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Tue. Mar. 3	New York, NY - DoubleTree Metropolitan
Tue. May 5	San Diego, CA Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
Tue. Aug. 18	Chicago, IL
Thu. Oct. 22	Boston, MA

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The management of storage devices is often tedious and time consuming. And as the fragile economy continues to impact everyone this year, we are all going to be required to do more with less. Storage virtualization promises to ease the headaches of increasingly complex storage systems and, ideally, will allow us to still effectively and efficiently do our jobs as IT pros with fewer resources.

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. This seminar will provide the answers to many of the virtualization questions swirling in storage today.

The vision of a true storage area network (SAN) will be realized with storage virtualization. But, the tricky part will be understanding how to complete the puzzle using virtualization. This seminar series with Marc Staimer, CDS of Dragon Slayer Consulting, will take an in-depth look at how storage virtualization is being thought of and deployed today. Staimer will discuss why virtualization is back en vogue with forward-thinking storage and server managers.

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. Staimer will also look at how storage virtualization makes heterogeneous storage compatible, eases data migration and enables consolidation.

Seating for this seminar is free for qualified IT professionals, but extremely limited. To claim your seat, apply today by calling Seminar Manager Annabelle Bozin at (508) 621-5530 or complete our quick online application.

Keynote Speaker

Marc Staimer, CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Marc Staimer is the President of Dragon Slayer Consulting, focused on in-depth, detailed analysis of the storage, SAN, server, and I/O markets, (aka System Area Networks) vendors, users, technologies, and real value propositions. Mr. Staimer has helped guide strategic direction of the enterprise storage industry's top vendors. His expertise encompasses data availability, SAN, NAS, and Storage Virtualization. Previously, Mr. Staimer was the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Polaris Communications. He has also held executive marketing positions with CNT as well as sales positions with Apertus Technologies and McData.

Agenda

8:00 am Registration and Breakfast

9:00 am Welcome and Introductions

9:10 am "The what, where, who, when, how storage virtualization"

10:00 am Vendor Showcase (3 Presentations)

10:30 am Peer Networking/ Refreshment Break

11:00 am "Virtual Storage in a Virtual Server World"

12:15 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Vendor Showcase

2:00 pm "How (and why) to make storage a dynamic online 'on-demand' resource"

3:00 pm Q&A, Raffle, Adjourn

Topics include:

In-band vs. out-of-band vs. hybrid approach
Controller-based, network-based and host-based options
Virtualization architecture options
Improving application availability
How virtualization can increase utilization, reporting and overall performance
Thin provisioning, replication and future applications

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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