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Upcoming 2012 Targeted IT Conferences

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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Enterprise
Disaster Recovery /
Business Continuity
Designing the Resilient Infrastructure and Systems

September 10, 2007
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Stephens Convention Center
Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

Your system crashing is inevitable! Never mind the reason. The goal is to make sure you have an infrastructure that is as resilient as possible so that it can meet business needs in the event of a disaster. There are steps you can take to maximize your availability and prevent significant downtime.

The content of this one day conference will help you in determining the right level of availability protection, how to design, implement, test and get management buy-in for a highly reliable network infrastructure.

Who Should Attend:

CIOs/VPs/Directors

DR Managers

Infrastructure & Security Managers

Conference Program

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:00 am

How to Develop a Risk-Based IT Continuity Framework

Hradnansky

Paulette Hradnansky, Director, Information Security Operations, Motorola

With the rise in increased dependency on information systems coupled with the reliance on business-critical data, the landscape has changed in recent years regarding more traditional approaches to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management. Beyond availability to information for general business needs, regulatory issues demand that Corporations classify applications and supporting infrastructures by level of importance. Certain applications are more critical than others, and Corporations must also assess the infrastructure required to support these applications.

This session will set the stage for the balance of this conference by introducing a Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Framework model that is based on business impact and risk to help you implement a reasonable approach to your ongoing disaster recovery efforts that utilizes classification, accessibility and methodology. In doing so, your organization will be able to develop a solid methodology, discipline and mechanism to prioritize disaster recovery efforts and elevate your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity program to a more strategic level within your organization.

10:00 am - 10:30 am - Refreshment Break

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Keilen

Managed Availability — What Level of Protection is Right for You?
Steve Keilen, Vice President, Marketing, Marathon Technologies

What does High Availability mean to you? How will High Availability affect your business?

This session will clear the air and give valuable insights into availability terminology, helping to bridge the “availability communications gap” between executive management and technology management. It will also provide a new, illuminating perspective on how different levels of availability intersect with business requirements on a continuum of resiliency, starting with the "reactive" protocol of disaster recovery and progressing towards the "highly proactive" stance of continuous availability.

Attendees will learn how to determine the level of protection that is right for their specific environment, as well as get an up-to-date overview of the standard and emerging types of availability technologies currently available.

This is an indispensable session for those new to availability issues or for those looking to advance their availability perspectives.

11:30 am - 12:30 am

How to Test the Resiliency of Your Infrastructure

Anthony Hopp, President, EOS Business Services

As you are trying to improve your infrastructure and processes, it is essential that you have a Testing Plan designed that takes into account real-world possibilities and how your infrastructure will hold up. The goal is to identify potential failures or weaknesses and how you can fix the gaps before it is too late.

In this session attendees will learn:

How and when to test their plan
How to make sure business and IT are on the same page
How to ensure that your plan continually changes to meet changing business needs
How to understand the roles of each IT/DR professional
How to support your personnel and their family during a disaster scenario
Refinements that should be made to the infrastructure when holes are found

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Luncheon

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

D'Arcy

Covering Your Apps: Protecting and Prioritizing Your Mission Critical Applications in a Disaster
Paul D'Arcy, VP of Marketing for MessageOne

A typical organization has thousands of Windows applications, each with many single points of failure (SPOF) in a typical IT environment. This presentation will address options for application availability, along with how to prioritize your applications for recovery following a disaster. To evaluate the right solution, organizations need to identify their mission critical applications, analyze the business impact of downtime, and set specific recovery time objectives. Next, they need to balance cost v. availability to design disaster recovery architectures that are appropriate for each application tier. Using real world failure statistics, this presentation will address best practices for Windows application availability and disaster recovery.

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Refreshment Break

Wenk

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Haste Makes Waste: Determining What is Necessary vs. What is a ‘Nice to Have’
Dennis Wenk, Principal Solutions Architect, Hitachi Data Systems

After you have determined how to make your IT environment more resilient, you need to figure out what additions need to be made to your infrastructure. Many vendors will promise you ‘the world’, but the key is deciding what is necessary to achieve the level of resiliency/high availability that your organization requires without spending unnecessarily.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Beal

Beitz

Watson

How to Get Buy-in from Management for a High Availability Environment – (panel discussion)

Moderator: Dan Adams, Region Manager, Citrix Systems

Panelists: Michael Ferrill, IT Project Manager, Disaster Recovery, Empire Today

Sandra Beitz, Manager, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Management, Country Insurance & Financial Services

Mike Beal, Manager, Software Support Services, Country Insurance & Financial Services

Ken Watson, Director, USG Corporation
Kent Anderson, Sr. Manager, Disaster Recovery, Discover Financial

In this session, attendees will hear from several enterprise IT departments as to how they have been successful at getting management buy-in for their High Availability environment. Topics that will be covered include:

How to articulate the need in business terms, i.e. infrastructure, people, monetary investment
How to define and predict what can happen if this investment is not made
How to project the amount of time it will take to make the organization more resilient

What You Will Learn

How to Design & Implement a Resilient Infrastructure
Enterprise involvement and buy-In of the business continuity plan
Tools and techniques to be used when implementing a BC/DR plan
Shared experiences of how other IT departments are effectively managing DR/BC
How to identify and minimize risks to your most business critical-business systems
How to make sense of the different high-availability & clustering technologies
How to implement effective backup and restore
Data encryption: Proactive Measures for Security & Backup Processes
How to Test Your Infrastructure Plan
How to Refine Your Infrastructure/Data Center Plan

Conference Price: $179.00 per person

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.

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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