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Register now and reserve your seat at this free seminar! Attend this event for the chance to win one of many giveaways throughout the day, including 5 $100 Amazon giftcards.

 

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Thursday, August 13	Online!

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Over the past 4 years, the thousands of IT pros attending this seminar in cities across the US and Canada gave the program and its keynote speaker, Jon William Toigo, a 99% approval rating.

Find out why – from the convenience of your own desktop – as Toigo tackles today’s most pressing disaster recovery planning challenges in this virtual seminar.

Best of all, you don’t need to wait for the seminar to travel to your area. You’ll “attend” in a user-friendly, interactive and intuitive online format. Via our easy-to-navigate virtual seminar interface, you’ll experience all the learning and interaction you’d experience if you physically attend this seminar:

• 3 distinct presentations by independent technology expert Jon William Toigo, addressing different aspects of the DR issues you face today
• Video webcasts, live interaction, and Q&As with our expert speaker
• Sponsor “booths” include detailed product information to be downloaded in a variety of interesting formats, plus live interaction with sponsor reps to answer your questions
• Sponsor webcasts where you can learn and ask questions about the latest DR planning technologies
• Plus 5 exciting giveaways including $100 Amazon.com Gift Cards and $100 iTunes Gift Cards!

What You’ll Learn

Planning for an unthinkable disaster is never a pleasant task – but one that is very necessary in today's business environment.  Now, more than ever, businesses are relying on mission-critical systems to be up and running at all times.  Any downtime at all can spell disaster when organizations are already working with depleted resources and there are many elements only adding to the challenge:

• Obtaining and keeping buy-in from the executive suite in wildly uncertain economic times
• Accounting for evolving technologies and often-disruptive innovations like virtualization and deduplication
• Figuring out how to build efficiencies into existing systems
• Fighting perceptions that a DR plan is “nice to have”
• Planning and executing testing procedures that ensure the plan will ultimately work

Amid all these moving parts, leading storage expert and disaster recovery planner extraordinaire Jon William Toigo will deliver 3 live presentations and answer your questions as he cover the following topics:

• The business case for strategic continuity planning
• New mission and tasks for the DR/BC planner
• A functional overview of the planning process
• A tested planning methodology
• The central role of data management in strategic business continuity
• The three elements of effective data protection strategy
• Techniques for classifying the data asset
• Techniques for protecting data in place and for replicating it for recovery: hype and hope
• The role of intelligent archiving in business continuity
• Challenges to (and solutions for) managing complexity in data protection and replication processes
• Infrastructure “wrappers” and other failover strategies

Plus, you’ll hear about the latest DR technologies in short demo presentations from our sponsors.

The result is a day of extensive, current, practical information that you can use right away. Take a minute today to register and ensure your access to this special online experience!

Keynote Speakers

Jon William Toigo , CEO and Managing Principal of Toigo Partners International LLC

Jon Toigo is a consultant, author and writer with 25 years of experience in IT operations and data storage management. He is the founder of the Data Management Institute (DMI), an organization for those who create, manage and protect their organizations’ most irreplaceable assets: their data. DMI has more than 7000 members, most of whom have completed DMI Certification courses in disaster recovery, data management and data security.

Toigo is a prolific author has written 15 books, including 5 covering the topic of disaster recovery planning. He has also produced thousands of articles for the trade press and his blog, DrunkenData.com, is read by over 120,000 visitors each month.

As part of his global consulting practice, he has developed, tested, and in some cases assisted with the implementation of, disaster recovery plans for more than 100 companies in the US, Europe, Africa, and Australia.

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