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Feb 15th-16th, 2012 Wednesday, Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Portfolio Management Strategies to help IT best align, prioritize and manage projects according to business needs
March 1, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Enterprise IT Risk/Security Management Strategies for adopting a comprehensive IT GRC (Governance/Risk Management/Compliance) approach to managing information adhering to business needs
March 15, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Cloud Computing Strategies Strategies for determining how and if moving to the cloud will benefit your organization
March 28, 2012 - Wednesday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Strategies to help IT best align operations and infrastructure management to business needs
April 12, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Enterprise Mobility Strategies Strategies to help solve today's current mobility challenges
April 26, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity – Resilient Infrastructure Strategies to help design, implement and manage disaster recovery and business continuity framework to protect your organization's core IT assets, people, and processes
May 10, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Leadership Strategies Strategies and techniques for leading and guiding IT through a business approach during dynamic times
May 31, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Desktop Virtualization Strategies Strategies to help the business and IT benefit from virtualization strategies through effective management, security, and recovery techniques
June 14, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Business Intelligence/Big Data/Analytics Strategies to help leverage full value from your design and implementation of an effective Business Intelligence framework
June 21, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Enterprise IT Risk/Security Management Strategies for adopting a comprehensive IT GRC (Governance/Risk Management/Compliance) approach to managing information adhering to business needs
July 12, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Strategies to help IT best align operations and infrastructure management to business needs
Sep 6, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity – Resilient Infrastructure Strategies to help design, implement and manage disaster recovery and business continuity framework to protect your organization's core IT assets, people, and processes
Sep 24, 2012 - Monday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Cloud Computing Strategies Strategies for determining how and if moving to the cloud will benefit your organization
Oct 9-10, 2012 - Tuesday, Wednesday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Portfolio Management Strategies to help IT best align, prioritize and manage projects according to business needs
Oct 25, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Desktop Virtualization Strategies Strategies to help the business and IT benefit from virtualization strategies through effective management, security, and recovery techniques
Nov 6, 2012 - Tuesday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Leadership Strategies Strategies and techniques for leading and guiding IT through a business approach during dynamic times
Nov 29, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity - Data Protection Strategies to help protect and recover your organization's most critical data
Dec 13, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Business Intelligence/Big Data/Analytics Strategies to help leverage full value from your design and implementation of an effective Business Intelligence framework

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Storage Strategies for the Enterprise
Adapting & Improving Your Storage Network to Meet Changing Business Needs

October 12, 2006
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Stephens Convention Center
Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

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:

How to design a performance & capacity planning model for current and forecasted enterprise data needs
How to build/refine the storage architecture that incorporates data alignment based on data/business value
How to implement a data classification framework
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

Lauffin

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:

Data Inventory
Compliance – Strengths/Weakness Assessment
Policies for Data Protection
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:

How to design SAN security procedures and policies
How to evaluate the inherent security protection in iSCSI and Fibre Channel
What other technologies are available to enhance the security of your enterprise storage network
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:

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
learning when and how to use a SRM tool
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:

How to start designing a process that has business requirements definition as its first step
How to design storage management policies across the enterprise
What is involved in setting up procedures
How to avoid storage management pitfalls
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:

regulatory compliance
emerging applications
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.

CAMP Conferences, Inc., 540 W. Frontage Rd., Ste. 2205, Northfield, IL 60093
Tel: (312) 527-2800 Fax: (847) 881-0747

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