Attend this free seminar for the chance to win one of two prizes, an Apple iPod Touch, and a Garmin GPS Navigation System

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Wed. Sept. 17	ONLINE!

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A free online seminar with W. Curtis Preston

Announcing the second annual Advanced Backup School Virtual Seminar.

Attend this live seminar featuring W. Curtis Preston on Wednesday September 17 – from the convenience of your desktop!

At last year’s virtual seminar, thousands of IT pros took advantage of all the information and interaction that you’d experience at our popular traveling seminar. They raved about the convenience, interactivity and the intuitive functionality of the seminar interface – as well as the valuable information you can only get from Advanced Backup School.

This year, we’re back with all new presentations from Curtis Preston, a new and improved seminar interface, live interaction with our speakers and sponsors – and surprises that include exciting giveaways.

What You’ll Learn

Here is a list of some of the all new material that W. Curtis Preston will deliver on September 17

The pros and cons of the different disk-based backup targets

An overview of CDP, data reduction backup and replication-based backup systems

How 10-Gigabit Ethernet really performs in backup servers

What success rates other companies are getting and why

What disk has really done for real companies' backup

Deduplication hardware: who is using it and how is it working?

Using dedupe to backup remote offices: software or hardware route?

Updated explanation of encryption, including tape drive encryption

VMware & backups: friend or foe?

This Virtual Seminar is free to attend and happens live on September 17. Pre-register now and receive a reminder email the day of the seminar.

Keynote Speaker

W. Curtis Preston, VP of Data Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
W. Curtis Preston is the Vice President of Data Protection Services at GlassHouse Technologies. He authored Using SANs and NAS and Unix Backup and Recovery, the seminal O'Reilly book on backup. He has been designing storage systems for more than 10 years and has designed systems for environments ranging from backup systems for small businesses to enterprise storage systems for Fortune 100 companies. His passion for backup and recovery began with managing the data growth of a 24x7, mission-critical environment. Since that time, Preston has been able to help many companies design resilient storage systems, and his client list includes many Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.

US Agenda

9:00 am Doors Open

9:00 - 9:30 am Visit Virtual Vendor Booths and interact with representatives from sponsoring technology providers

9:30 - 10:15 am W. Curtis Preston Webcast : Deduplication

10:15 - 10:30 am Virtual Vendor Booths are open

10:30 - 11:30 am Quantum Webcast

11:30 - 12:30 pm Virtual Vendor Booths are open

12:30 - 1:00 pm W. Curtis Preston Webcast : Protecting Stored Data

1:00 - 2:00 pm HP Webcast with IDC: "How to Reduce the Backup Data Footprint"

2:00 - 2:15 pm Virtual Vendor Booths are open
2:10 Drawing: Free Apple iPod Touch. (Attendees must be in a vendor booth to qualify)

2:15 - 3:00 pm Live Q&A session with W. Curtis Preston

3:00 - 4:00 pm Vendor Webcast

4:00 - 4:30 pm W. Curtis Preston Webcast : Backing Up Virtualized Infrastructure & Remote Offices

4:30 - 5:00 pm Virtual Vendor Booths are open
4:55 pm Drawing: Free Garmin GPS

4:10 - 5:00 pm Virtual Vendor Booths are open

* All times Eastern Standard Time
* The final agenda will be communicated to all registered attendees before the seminar begins

What You Can Expect

Webcasts with W. Curtis Preston, on how to make backup and recovery more reliable and the hot backup technologies you should be considering
Sponsor virtual booths that look and act like a real seminar - you interact with reps from backup technology providers and download demos and product information
Sponsor webcasts where sponsors explain the latest backup technologies and how they can help you solve your backup and recovery challenges
A live text chat with W. Curtis Preston, where you get your questions answered and you see Curtis' responses to the questions posted by your peers
All of this takes place in a slick, easy to navigate interface that provides a virtual seminar experience - right from your desktop!

This Virtual Seminar is free to attend and happens live on September 17. Pre-register now and receive a reminder email the day of the seminar.

Why you should attend:

We understand that backup is not the most exciting part of your job and we know that it shouldn't be the most difficult part either. Preston will provide you with time-tested advice and techniques that will make backup easier.

We encourage you to pre-register for this virtual seminar, and invite your peers responsible for storage, servers, the data center and networks. This highly-interactive and educational event is the perfect venue to address a key initiative that affects so many groups within IT.

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