Conference Program

9:00am - 10:00am

How to Define and Implement a Comprehensive Disaster Recovery/Data Protection Plan
Clayton Williams, Jr., Director, Technology Audit, OfficeMax

A comprehensive disaster recovery and data protection plan needs to be your insurance policy against loss of data.  Think of it as business protection. It should be easy to understand for all the different stakeholders including IT and the respective business units.  But how do you know what you should be protecting and to what level?

In this session attendees will learn:

• How to define your particular data protection requirements

• Which areas should receive priority over others?

• What is your acceptable level of risk/loss?

• How quickly you need to recover?

• How to understand equate level of downtime with your organization’s financial exposure

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

10:30am - 11:30am

How to Understand, Simplify and Leverage the Different Backup and Replication Techniques
Brian Bieschke, Service Delivery Engineer, UbiStor

There many techniques that organizations can use to protect, backup and recover their data and they each have their pros and cons.  How do you determine what techniques and technologies are the best fit for your organization?

In this session attendees will learn detailed information on how to use the following techniques.  Pros and cons will be provided with respect to size or organization, level of protection and uptime required and relative cost.

Areas that will be covered include:

• Traditional backup (Full vs. Incremental vs. Differential)

• Disk vs. Tape

• Replication (Remote and local)

• Deduplication

• Continuous Data Protection

• Encryption

11:30am - 12:30pm

How to Effectively Leverage the Complementary Technologies in DR and Archiving Environments
Jim Cuff, Vice President, Strategy, Iron Mountain Digital

The needs for application and data recoverability, application continuity, credible archive practices, and discovery readiness are more urgent than ever.  While different technology solutions may be deployed to handle these needs, it is important to understand how these approaches may complement each other.

In this session attendees will learn:

• How backup and mailbox management solutions work together to reduce backup volume & RTO.
• The advantages of having email continuity as a “side effect” of your email archive
• Characteristics of “content addressable storage” and how those affect backup (and access)
• How file system archiving can help with backup set size, recovery, and server migration

12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon

1:30pm - 2:30pm 

How to Map Key Metrics: From Your Key Business Processes to the Supporting IT Infrastructure

Dan Schauver, Solutions Architect, Laurus Technologies
 

While determining a strategy, the disaster recovery and data protection team should reference their organization's business continuity plan which should indicate the key metrics of Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for various business processes (e.g. CRM, Supply Chain, Payroll, etc). The metrics specified for the business processes must then be mapped to the underlying IT systems and infrastructure that support those processes.

In this session attendees will learn:

• How to map RTO and RPO metrics to the IT infrastructure

• How to best determine the most suitable recovery and data protection strategy for each system.

• How to understand the trade-offs between desired level of data protection and the cost associated with it

• How to articulate the results of the process of mapping RTO an RPO to the infrastructure

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Audience Discussion - DR  Experiences
In this session attendees will learn from each other.

• Strategies attendees have used in protecting data and preventing disaster in a virtualized environment

•  What is the biggest lesson attendees have learned in living through a DR emergency and what changes were made to the plan afterward?

• How have attendees chosen DR priorities?

• Other attendee suggested topics

• "Challenges of the week"- Attendees will address questions to the rest of the audience, for possible solution, on current DR challenges.

4:00pm - 5:00pm
How to Develop a Business Case for DR and Data Protection

Moderator: Steve Susina, Director of Marketing, Laurus Technologies
Panelists: Donald Moore, Disaster Recovery, PepsiAmericas,

Darrin Anderson, Project Leader, Metavante
Rick Karmik, IT Systems, Disaster Recovery Analyst, DeVry, Inc.

In this session attendees will learn from a group of seasoned enterprise IT disaster recovery/data protection professionals as to how they have developed a successful business case that has received management’s approval.

Topics that will be addressed include:

• How to write up the business case

• What areas to emphasize

• What areas to avoid discussing

• How to articulate in language that business leaders can understand

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn: 

• How to Design a Data Protection and Recovery Strategy that Meets Regulatory Requirements

• How to Determine if Your Current Data Protection and Recovery Strategies are Meeting the Needs of Your Organization

• How to Leverage Data Management Disciplines to Design a Robust Data Protection and Recovery Framework for Your Specific Organization

• How to Determine which Data Protection and Recovery Technologies are the Best Fit for Your Organization

• How Enterprises are Implementing Effective Data Protection and Recovery Strategies

• How to Get Buy-In for Your Data Protection and Recovery Infrastructure (panel discussion)

Conference Price: $199.00 per person