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
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How to implement a comprehensive risk management
strategy to support the needs of the enterprise
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How proper BCM can be a key component of an
enterprise’s risk management framework
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How to understand the needs of various internal
customers/stakeholders
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How to improve overall business resiliency
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How to minimize impact to your organization’s
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How to test and implement the plan
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How to measure effectiveness through SLAs
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How to minimize gaps between recovery
capabilities and enterprise requirements
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How to handle crisis management
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How to justify investments to achieve 100%
availability
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How to gain commitment for your plan from
management
Conference Program
8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am
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Guilinger |
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:
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Gain a solid understanding of ‘Resilient
Architectures’
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Learn how to get management buy-in to
support resilient architectures
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How to modify your DR/BC plan to support
resiliency
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How to refine your IT infrastructure for
today’s/tomorrow’s potential disasters
10:00am - 10:30am - Refreshment Break
10:30pm - 11:30pm
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Verma |
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.
11:30am - 12:30pm
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Peeples |
How to Determine Which Data Protection Options
Best Support Your Resiliency Efforts
Mike Peebles,
Product Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Availability of critical business systems is
dependent on the availability of data.
There are many technologies that can help you,
but at times it can be confusing as to the
benefits of each and how they apply to 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:
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Traditional backup (Full vs. Incremental vs.
Differential)
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Disk vs. Tape
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Replication (Remote and local)
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Deduplication
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Continuous Data Protection
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Encryption
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon
1:30pm - 2:30pm
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Ledyard |
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 and data protection.
Attendees will learn how to leverage the above
benefits for greater resiliency planning.
2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break
3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Kluger |
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:
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Map out a checklist of SLAs that you can put
to work immediately
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How to define SLAs with your suppliers
(including cloud providers) and your
internal ‘customers’
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How to work with different stakeholders so
they each know their roles when a disaster
hits
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How to determine if you cloud providers can
deliver this
4:00pm
- 5:00pm
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Susina
Nootens
Roseman
Bierdz |
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.
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.
