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Introducing the second Storage Decisions Virtual Seminar on Disaster Recovery Planning.

Over the past 3 years, the thousands of IT pros attending this seminar in cities across the US and Canada gave the program and its keynote speaker, Jon William Toigo, a 99% approval rating.

Find out why – from the convenience of your own desktop – as Toigo and Tom Duggan of Recovery Networks tackle today’s most pressing disaster recovery planning challenges in this virtual seminar.

Best of all, you don’t need to wait for the seminar to travel to your area – You’ll “attend” in a user-friendly, interactive and intuitive online format. Via our easy-to-navigate virtual seminar interface, you’ll experience all the learning and interaction you’d experience if you physically attend this seminar:

• Video webcasts with independent technology experts Jon William Toigo and Tom Duggan
• Live interaction and Q&As with our expert speakers
• Sponsor “booths” include detailed product information to be downloaded in a variety of interesting formats, plus live interaction with sponsor product experts
• Sponsor webcasts where you can learn and ask questions about the latest DR planning technologies
• Plus two exciting giveaways: an iPod Touch and a $100 American Express Gift Card!

What You’ll Learn

As we move towards 2009, Disaster Recovery Planning is the #1 strategic initiative for many IT organizations. There are many elements adding to the challenge:

• Obtaining and keeping buy-in from the executive suite in wildly uncertain economic times
• Accounting for evolving technologies and often-disruptive innovations like virtualization and deduplication
• Figuring out how to build efficiencies into existing systems
• Fighting perceptions that a DR plan is “nice to have”
• Planning and executing testing procedures that ensure the plan will ultimately work

Amid all these moving parts, leading storage expert and disaster recovery planner extraordinaire Jon William Toigo will deliver 2 live presentations and answer your questions as he cover the following topics:

• The business case for strategic continuity planning
• New mission and tasks for the DR/BC planner
• A functional overview of the planning process
• A tested planning methodology
• The central role of data management in strategic business continuity
• The three elements of effective data protection strategy
• Techniques for classifying the data asset
• Techniques for protecting data in place and for replicating it for recovery: hype and hope
• The role of intelligent archiving in business continuity
• Challenges to (and solutions for) managing complexity in data protection and replication processes
• Infrastructure “wrappers” and other failover strategies

Then Tom Duggan, Director of Technical Services, Recovery Networks, takes a deep dive into disaster recovery planning for virtual environments. With virtualization deployments happening all over, this presentation offer the chance to take a step back, evaluate what’s different and take appropriate steps to protect your systems and data.

Plus, you’ll hear about the latest DR technologies in short demo presentations from our sponsors.

The result is a day of extensive, current, practical information that you can use right away. Take a minute today to register and ensure your access to this special online experience!

Keynote Speakers

Jon William Toigo , CEO and Managing Principal of Toigo Partners International LLC

Jon William Toigo is a 20-year IT veteran who has worked both as an operative within corporate information systems departments and as a senior consultant with two international systems integrators. He is also a prolific writer with 15 books and thousands of articles in the technology trade press to his credit. His technology columns in seven popular print and on-line media garner a loyal readership of more than 500,000 per month worldwide.

Jon’s books include: The Holy Grail of Network Storage Management, Disaster Recovery Planning 3rd Edition: Preparing for the Unthinkable, The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management, and The Essential Guide to ASPs. Forthcoming titles include Making IT Matter (with co-author Randy Chalfant) and The Data Democracy (with co-author Margaret Romao Toigo).

In addition to his work in print, Jon provides consulting and analysis services to a broad range of international clients.

 

Tom Dugan, Chief Technology Officer of Recovery Networks Inc.
Tom Dugan has been working in Information Technology for over 25 years in varying capacities from Field Technician to Senior Management. Before founding backup services provider Recovery Networks, Inc., Tom was the Director of Information Technology Funds Associates, LTD (later acquired by PFPC, a division of PNC Bank) where he successfully built an organization to service the company’s mutual fund service division. He has served as a Business Mentor to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute at the Temple University Fox School of Business and served on the Technical Advisory Board for Phoenician Ventures LLC, a Philadelphia-based, $60 million venture capital fund that invests in early-stage, technology companies. Tom currently serves on the Advisory Boards of several other organizations in various vertical markets including product distribution, construction, employee benefits design and security.

 

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