Conferences that solve current IT challenges

Enterprise Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
Designing the 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

March 18. 2010

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Bio

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center  Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

Economic survival and sustainability is a shared concern among many top executives. This leads to increased emphasis on recovery/continuity of operations and data. What should you be doing differently in this economic climate to adhere to enterprise wide goals?

In this one day conference attendees will learn how they may need to tweak their approach given current company challenges.

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • How to implement a comprehensive risk management strategy to support the needs of the enterprise

  • How proper BCM can be a key component of an enterprise’s risk management frameword

  • How to understand the needs of various internal customers/stakeholders

  • How to improve overall business resiliency

  • How to minimize impact to your organization’s

  • How to test and implement the plan

  • How to measure effectiveness through SLAs

  • How to minimize gaps between recovery capabilities and enterprise requirements

  • How to handle crisis management

  • How to justify investments to achieve 100% availability

  • How to gain commitment for your plan from management

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Conference Program

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

Guilinger

9:00am-10:00am

IT Continuity: How Resilient Are You?

David B. Guilinger, Director of Information Services, Gateway Health Plan

Aspects of Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity are constantly changing due to the dynamic and challenging times the world as a whole is facing.  How do you ensure that your DR/BC plan can address the changes you and your organization are constantly faced with on a daily basis?  How can you make sure your infrastructure can support today’s climate in the event of a disaster and future unforeseen disasters?

In this session attendees will:

  • Gain a solid understanding of ‘Resilient Architectures’

  • Learn how to get management buy-in to support resilient architectures

  • How to modify your DR/BC plan to support resiliency

  • How to refine your IT infrastructure for today’s/tomorrow’s potential disasters

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

Verma

10:30am-11:30am

Prioritizing Critical Applications: How to Determine Which Applications Are Most Important During a Disaster

Deepak Verma, Specialist Solutions Architect - Data Replication, Hitachi Data Systems

The applications are clearly vital to a business holding its own during a disaster.  With a highly available infrastructure supporting your mission critical applications you increase the likelihood that all those applications will keep business operations steady during a disaster.  But in the event that you have to make a choice, how do you identify and prioritize the top applications that are needed for your business to survive.

In this session, attendees will learn a methodology to evaluate each application and identify all available information necessary for a prioritized critical application recovery.

Peebles

11:30am-12:30pm

How to Determine Which Data Protection Options Best Support Your Resiliency Efforts

Mike Peebles, Product Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard

Business intelligence can successfully move the business forward if implemented properly.  But there are pitfalls to be aware of.  If these are not avoided an implementation can have disastrous consequences for the enterprise.

In this session attendees will learn how to: 

  • Traditional backup (Full vs. Incremental vs. Differential)
  • Disk vs. Tape
  • Replication (Remote and local)
  • Deduplication
  • Continuous Data Protection
  • Encryption

12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon

Ledyard

1:30pm-2:30pm

Cloud Computing: How to Leverage Current Trends and Technology to Improve Resiliency

Eric Ledyard, CTO, AHEAD

Cloud computing has many benefits for the enterprise including reduced cost, increased storage, higher automation, flexibility, and mobility.  It also allows IT to shift focus to innovation.

In this session attendees will learn best practices of integrating cloud/hosted offerings into an existing network to provide superior performance and data protection. Attendees will learn how to leverage the above benefits for greater resiliency planning.

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

Kluger

3:00pm-4:00pm

How to Create and Implement Effective IT Infrastructure SLAs That Align Specifically to Your Business Needs

Dave Kluger, Principal Technology Architect, StorCOM

The importance of SLAs for your IT infrastructure cannot be understated.  With cloud computing SLAs take on an even greater role.  But where do you start? How do you define them?  How do you know what is realistic to expect when negotiating SLAs with your suppliers and your internal units within the enterprise?

In this session attendees will learn how to:

  • Map out a checklist of SLAs that you can put to work immediately

  • How to define SLAs with your suppliers (including cloud providers) and your internal ‘customers’

  • How to work with different stakeholders so they each know their roles when a disaster hits

  • How to determine if you cloud providers can deliver this

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Susina

Nootens

Roseman

Bierdz

4:00pm-5:00pm

Today’s Climate: How to Increase Your Resiliency on a Limited Budget

(panel discussion) 

Moderator: Steve Susina, Director of Marketing, Laurus Technologies, Inc.
Panelists will include:

John Nootens, Director, Networking, American Medical Association

Jeff Roseman, Director, IS Infrastructure, Patterson Medical 
Kent Anderson, Sr Manager, Disaster Recovery, Discover Financial

Philip Bierdz, Manager, Infrastructure, Riverside Medical Center

and other professionals from IT departments sharing experiences and lessons learned.

In an effort to navigate through the current economy, many organizations are slashing costs across the board.  Is this the best approach when data is the lifeblood of your business? An added challenge is that no one can predict when a disaster will occur.  Although DR/BC funds should be a top priority, the reality is that many projects are competing for limited a limited IT budget. In DR/BC it can be difficult to prove ROI with absolute certainly.  There does not appear to be an obvious correlation between money invested and dollars earned. As a DR/BC professional, you know that the ROI is not having the business go under. However, you must be able to justify the dollar investment or the project will not move forward. 

In this session, you will learn sound strategies and tactics that will help you with these challenges from seasoned IT DR/BC professionals.


Conference price: $249 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)˛, 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.

  


 
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