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9:00am-10:00am
Visions for the
Continuity Industry
– The Future is in
the CARDS
John Jackson, Former
Vice President, IBM
Business Resilience
and Continuity
Services
Jackson |
The Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
industry has never been more in vogue, as
corporate governance, terrorism and data
security capture the news on a daily basis.
But, as Bob Dylan said, ‘the times, they are a
changin’, and today’s times are changing how we
address this important issue. Disaster
Recovery, Business Continuity, High
Availability, and Security are coming together
as never before, into a whole new focus on
Resilient Architectures, which is the future of
the recovery industry. Attendees need to
understand and embrace this direction, and
consider how it fits in their own organization.
In addition, a whole under-addressed topic
called ‘Interdependencies’ is coming of age, and
needs to be better understood and addressed.
Attendees will learn how the trends and
directions will impact their planning efforts
and actual recovery efforts, and how Disaster
Recovery and Business Continuity’s role is
changing in the corporate and IT organization.
Many of the ideas presented will equip the
attendees with the ability to better communicate
the value of their efforts, and their program,
to executive management.
10:00am-10:30am - Break
10:30am-11:30am
Building
a Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity
Plan to Cover Your IT Infrastructure
John Gibson, System Engineer, Symantec
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Gibson |
Many events affect businesses today. Some
are threats causing business disruption;
others add, modify, or delete technology
within the business. The difficulty is not
that one or two of these affect a business,
but that dozens may affect a business at the
same time. Proactively managing change or
disruption is the key to a successful
business. So what does this mean? IT
professionals must create a resilient
infrastructure which can quickly address the
various dimensions of business risk. There
must be proactive measures for security and
backup processes to keep a business up,
running, and growing.
Information that is available
but not secure is suspect – and information
that is secure but not available is useless.
To win this battle, we must change our
strategy!
Attendees will learn the following:
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How to change your business continuity
strategy when conditions warrant
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Create an adaptable and resilient
infrastructure to address various
dimensions of business risk
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How to implement proactive measures for
security and backup processes
11:30am-12:30pm
Implementing DR/BC Best Practices: Working
Outside the IT Box
Moderator:
Irene Rozansky, President, R&A Crisis
Management
Panelists: Joe Vetrano, Former CIO, Cosi
Restaurants
Paulette Hradnansky, Director, Information
Security Operations, Motorola
Fernando Martinez, Director of Technology,
Zebra Technologies
Stuart R. Paddock III, Assistant Vice President, Manager of Technology and
Process, Daily Herald
Miguel Salazar,
Sr. Manager, Managed Network Services, Computer
Sciences Corporation
Rozansky |
There are four critical components which,
together, ensure business resilience: technology
recovery, business continuity, incident
management and security. Our panelists will
discuss how they worked in partnership with
non-IT departments to achieve business
resilience. The panelists will share real-life
DR/BC program implementation experiences,
including:
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Collaboration: how to achieve it
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Responsibility and authority for DR/BC: who owns it
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Challenges faced and overcome (or not)
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Lessons learned in the planning and implementation
processes
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Tips from the front; dealing with critical incidents
12:30pm-1:30pm -
Luncheon
1:30pm-2:30pm
Tools & Technologies to Help You Effectively
Manage Your Data Management & Disaster Recovery
Christopher Davis, Senior Storage Product
Manager, Global Hosting, Verio
Davis |
Many businesses have recently experienced the
benefits of a new take on disaster recovery and
data backup. This session will address tools and
techniques for ensuring proper protection for
multiple operating systems, multiple databases,
and not only a business’ servers but also
company desktops and laptops. Attendees will
learn about the differences between backing up
and archiving their data, as well as how to set
up a policy of how often to back up their
information and what to include when they do
so. Attendees will also learn the technical
makeup of a remote backup solution, the details
of data replication, disaster recovery and
business continuity, and how they can provide
very viable storage options for many different
types and sizes of businesses. Case studies will
be provided.
2:30pm-3:30pm
Using Disaster Recovery Techniques in Your
Backup System to Eliminate Redundancy & Cost
W. Curtis Preston, Vice President, Data
Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies
Preston |
Historically, many companies' disaster recovery
plans revolved around off-site tapes, and
restoring from those tapes in case of a
disaster. Now many companies have realized that
it's impossible to meet the recovery objectives
of critical applications with such an approach,
and they've switched to replication for DR of
critical applications, while still relying on
traditional backup systems for operational
recovery. If your DR system has
defined recovery objectives for critical
applications, why shouldn't your operational
recovery system have the same requirements? If
your DR system can recover your application in
one hour, what purpose is the backup system
serving? Here's a good question: What if one
system could serve both purposes?
The awareness of DR concepts and systems has
grown significantly over the last few years, and
terms such as RTO, RPO, and consistency groups
are becoming commonplace. In addition, the
storage industry has made significant technical
advancements in this area as well -- the line
between DR and backup is getting thinner every
day. Attendees will learn what other companies
are doing in this space, and be presented with
challenging ideas as to how they might be able
to increase their recoverability and reduce cost
at the same time.
3:30pm-4:00pm - Refreshment Break
4:00pm-5:00pm
Removing Barriers to Business Continuity through
Utility Computing
Bill Corrigan, Vice President,
Product Management, Softricity
Corrigan |
Corporate computing infrastructures are
inherently adverse to business continuity.
Traditionally, all layers have been static, configured to
support a single computing solution. For
example, hardware is assigned for specific uses
(web server or database); the OS is tied to the
hardware (one box runs Windows, the other a Unix
OS); and storage is designated to specific
locations. On top of all this are applications,
which are installed to run inside this static
environment. The result is a tightly bound
configuration that does not adapt well to the
rapid – and often drastic -- changes needed to
get businesses back online in the event of
unplanned interruptions and outages.
To remove these hard-coded barriers, many
businesses are beginning to embrace utility
computing, where each element of this system is
freed from the other. Each layer can use
resources generically – and does not need to be
configured for specific systems. It no longer
has an assigned identity or role – such as
storage dedicated to the engineering department
or a server running only engineering’s data.
Instead, if a particular department or facility
goes down, everything its staff needs—from the
OS to the applications—can be dynamically
provisioned to whatever computers are most
readily available, in real-time. Equally
important, the resources needed to ensure
business continuity are minimal, and DR
planning, testing and execution costs can be
dramatically reduced.
With so much promise—and hype--around utility
computing, attendees need to understand the
facts about how it can enhance their business
continuity initiatives. Attendees will learn
how companies are approaching DR through a utility
computing lens, and creating infrastructures
that overcome DR’s traditionally unsurpassable
barriers.
Each attendee will receive a certificate
awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing
education,
in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs.
CISSP is a registered certification mark of
(ISC)˛, Inc.
At this one day conference attendees will
hear from leading business continuity
experts and IT departments on the key IT
factors that need to be considered
including:
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How Industry Trends and Directions will
Affect Planning & Recovery Efforts
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How to Better Communicate the Value of
Your Efforts and Your Program to
Executive Management
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Implementing Proactive Measures for
Security and Backup Processes
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How to Effectively Work with other
Departments (Outside of IT)
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Enterprise Involvement and Buy-In of the
Business Continuity Plan
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Strategies to Remove Barriers Through
Utility Computing
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Tools and Techniques to be Used When
Implementing a BC/DR Plan
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Shared Experiences of How Other IT
Departments are Effectively Managing
DR/BC
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