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Introducing the Storage Decisions Virtual Seminar: Disaster Recovery Planning.

Since 2005, thousands of storage-focused IT professionals across the US and Canada have raved about the education, networking and technology information they’ve received at this popular one-day seminar.

On March 27, 2008, IT professionals of every stripe have the opportunity to gain advice on how to research, plan, deploy and test a plan that will ensure quick and complete recovery after any interruption.

Best of all, you don’t need to wait for the seminar to travel to your area – you’ll attend from the convenience of your desktop. Via our easy-to-navigate virtual seminar interface, you will experience all the learning and interaction you’d experience if you physically attend this seminar:

• Video webcasts with independent technology experts
• Live interaction and Q&As with our expert speakers
• Sponsor “booths” include detailed product information to be downloaded in a variety of interesting formats, plus live interaction with sponsor product experts
• Sponsor webcasts where you can learn and ask questions about the latest DR planning technologies
• Plus 2 iPhone giveaways during the seminar

Keynote Speakers

Mark Schlack, VP Editorial, Storage Media Group

Mark Schlack is Vice President of Editorial for the Storage, Windows and Data Center Media Groups at TechTarget. Mark has covered the use of technology in business for 22 years, concentrating on computer technology for the last 15 years. He began his high-tech career as Network Editor at Datamation, where he later became Editor. Following that, he was the Editor-in-Chief of BYTE magazine, where he was responsible for both print and Web versions of the magazine, both domestically and internationally. He also served as VP/Content for EarthWeb and VP/Editorial for ITworld.com. Mark founded Storage magazine in 2002.

 

Leo A. Wrobel, President and CEO of B4Ci Inc.

Leo A. Wrobel has three decades of experience in emerging network technology, disaster recovery planning, and technical training. A nationally renowned technical futurist, Wrobel is CEO of Dallas-based b4Ci Inc., where contingency planning constitutes a large portion of his company's practice. Wrobel is the author of several books, including The Definitive Guide to Business Resumption Planning and Writing Disaster Recovery Plans for Telecom & LAN. He holds degrees in Telecommunications Systems Technology, Electronic Systems Technology and Business and Public Policy.

 

Bill Peldzus, Vice President of Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.

Bill Peldzus is Vice President of Data Center Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery at GlassHouse Technologies. He is responsible for the strategy and development of DC, BC & DR services, supporting sales and overseeing customer engagements. Bill brings more than 20 years' experience working in technical positions at Imation Corporation's Storage Professional Services and StorageTek's SAN Operations business group, as well as running multiple IT groups at CNA Insurance and Northern Trust Company. Bill often serves as a content expert in storage and disaster recovery and business continuity presentations.

 

Chris Wolf , Senior Analyst, Burton Group

Chris Wolf is a senior analyst for Burton Group's Data Center Strategies service. Wolf provides Burton Group's enterprise clients with practical research and advice about server virtualization, data center consolidation, business continuity and data protection. He authored Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise, the first book published on the topic, and has published dozens of articles on advanced virtualization topics, high availability, and business continuity. Chris has logged over 14 years in the IT trenches and has focused on enterprise virtualization since 2000.

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 has become one of the most important initiatives in corporate IT. Once, only the largest companies paid attention to disaster recovery, and that meant having a backup data center close by. Today, every organization needs to ensure the continuity of their applications and network, the integrity and retention of your data, and you need to do it in a way that protects against both the largest disasters and common disruptions.

This imperative has been gaining in importance since 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. With added pressures from compliance programs, and with the opportunities presented by new technologies and new data center construction, disaster recovery is something that IT organizations are putting atop your to-do list.

The Disaster Recovery Virtual Seminar is a unique online event that will help IT managers accomplish a key business goal: bring back the applications that are fundamental to the business. In order to do that, IT must formulate coordinated disaster recovery plans for the three key areas they control: servers, networks, and storage.

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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