This one day conference will help you learn
how to maximize the utility of your current
storage network while making the necessary
improvements and tweaks to meet changing
business needs including regulatory
mandates, growth of your organization, and
emerging applications that require greater
capacity.
Conference Program
9:00am-10:00am
How to Build a Storage Architecture that
Aligns to Business/Data Value
Dave Hiechel, President and CEO, EAGLE
Software
Data growth has been exponential over the
last several years and can be attributed to
many factors including: e-business;
compliance and other regulatory mandates;
and the increased effort on the part of many
organizations to collect more and more data
on their current and prospective customers.
As a storage professional, how do you define
and/or refine your storage strategy to meet
the ever changing demands of your
enterprise?
In this session, attendees will learn:
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How to design a performance & capacity
planning model for current and
forecasted enterprise data needs
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How to build/refine the storage
architecture that incorporates data
alignment based on data/business value
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How to implement a data classification
framework
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How to make sure the cost effective
storage model still delivers the
services levels users expect
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30am-11:30am
Data Management & Compliance: Your
Investment In the Future
Diamond Lauffin,
Sr. Executive Vice President, Nexsan
Technologies
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Compliance is not just a business issue, but
an IT issue. IT departments need to view
the investment of time, money and resources
involved in developing and implementing a
sound data management framework for
compliance as integral to the growth of the
business. Having a properly designed data
management framework will allow enterprises
to quickly adhere to ongoing regulatory
mandates and more importantly have access to
data that will allow them to capitalize
on new business opportunities.
In this session, attendees will learn how to
design a storage/data management plan that
takes into account the following:
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Data Inventory
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Compliance – Strengths/Weakness
Assessment
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Policies for Data Protection
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Proactive & Ongoing Data Management
11:30am-12:30pm
How to Design and Implement
Comprehensive SAN Security
Dave Hiechel, President and CEO, EAGLE
Software
This presentation will cover how to handle SAN
security
It will include information on:
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How to design SAN security procedures
and policies
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How to evaluate the inherent security
protection in iSCSI and Fibre Channel
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What other technologies are available to
enhance the security of your enterprise
storage network
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A technical implementation of SAN
security
12:30pm-1:30pm - Luncheon
1:30pm-2:30pm
How to Lessen Congestion/Bottlenecks in Your
Storage Network
Dave Denson, Storage Solutions Architect,
StoreAge
Every organization has new business
opportunities or projects that continually
place strain on the storage network.
Organizations have made large purchases of
storage networking solutions to match the
rising storage demands of the network. But
the answer also lies in more efficiently
utilizing your current network by reducing
the bottlenecks and congestion.
In this session, attendees will learn a
methodology for reducing congestion by:
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being provided with new ideas and
concepts for
performance tuning of the storage
network which includes suggestions for HBAs, FC Switches, FC Tape Drives, FC
Storage Arrays
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learning when and how to use a SRM tool
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understanding the impact of next
generation applications and their
associated affects i.e. VoIP,
videoconferencing, wireless, etc. and
what you can do to work through these
challenges
2:30pm-3:00pm - Break
3:00pm-4:00pm
How to Implement Effective Storage
Management Across the Enterprise
John Gibson, Senior Systems Engineer,
Symantec Corporation
Effective Storage Management is a thorough
process and not just technology
implementation. To safeguard against
business risks and exposure and reduce the
potential waste of IT resources enterprises
must design and implement a framework that
involves individuals outside of IT who truly
understand the business requirements.
In this session, attendees will learn:
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How to start designing a process that
has business requirements definition as
its first step
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How to design storage management
policies across the enterprise
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What is involved in setting up
procedures
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How to avoid storage management pitfalls
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How to make the right storage management
investments
4:00pm-4:30pm
Making the Right Storage Investments
Cheryl Smith, Enterprise Data Architect,
Solucient
Our speaker
will share her storage
strategies and how they have changed
over the last few years due to:
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regulatory compliance
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emerging applications
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explosive data growth
She
will share her successes in getting storage
expenditure approval, pitfalls you should
avoid, and her perspective on where she sees
her company's storage network evolving.
4:30pm-5:00pm
Attendee Discussion
Attendees
will share their company's storage
strategies and their current plans and
experiences.
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)², Inc.
Conference price: $179 per person.
Exhibits
As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks
will not include product presentations. During the
continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the
luncheon break you will have the opportunity to
informally meet representatives from the
following sponsoring companies, who have
solutions in the area of the conference.
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