Boston Seaport World Trade Center

September 22, 2010

9:00am-4:00pm

 PDU, CEU and CPE Learning Credits Issued 

Seminar Overview

With information growth averaging 30-60% per year (while storage budgets have been shrinking), and with the huge impact that server virtualization has had on the storage infrastructure, IT organizations need to re-evaluate and re-optimize the storage infrastructure.  Regulatory compliance issues and the shift of data from DAS to shared network storage (for virtualization and private cloud computing) add additional challenges. At the same time, virtualization has been a huge enabler for Disaster Recovery for many SMB shops, while also creating new best practices for DR and backup/recovery. With pressure on IT to address all these issues and to do more with less, what are the strategic technologies worth spending scarce time and money on, and who are the key partners to consider?

In this seminar you will hear a vendor neutral perspective on the strategic and game changing technologies you should be thinking about. You will also learn about ways to optimize your storage infrastructure to address the key issues and challenges created by compliance, virtualization, DR, virtual/physical data protection and storage growth with shrinking budgets.

 This seminar on one of today's hottest topics will include:

• An opening keynote presentation from Barb Goldworm of FOCUS, one of the leading independent industry experts on virtualization and storage, discussing the Top 10 Storage Trends for 2010 including the impact of server and desktop virtualization on storage, optimizing your storage infrastructure, and how game changing technologies like server and storage virtualization and deduplication allow you to change the paradigm for DR, data protection, storage management and more.
• Explanations and comparisons of various storage technologies and how and where best to use them – including storage virtualization, thin provisioning, iSCSI SANs, clustered storage, and NAS/SAN/unified storage
• Discussions on best practices for backup and recovery of virtual and physical environments
• Insights on the role of data deduplication and how it can and should change the way you manage and protect data, and how to evaluate different methods of deduplication
• The role of virtualization in enabling DR and how to best implement DR in virtual environments
• Discussions of various options for data protection, backup and recovery in the virtual environment including client based, VMware VCB, vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP), change block tracking, file level backup, image level backup, VM snapshots, storage snapshots, replication and more.

PLUS

• An opportunity to network with storage and virtualization thought leaders and your peers
• Time to meet with value added partners representing hardware, software and services in this area in a non-sales, vendor neutral environment

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