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
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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
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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:
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How and when to test their plan
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How to make sure business and IT are on the
same page
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How to ensure that your plan continually
changes to meet changing business needs
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How to understand the roles of each IT/DR
professional
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How to support your personnel and their
family during a disaster scenario
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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
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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
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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
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:
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How to articulate the need in business
terms, i.e. infrastructure, people, monetary
investment
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How to define and predict what can happen if
this investment is not made
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How to project the amount of time it will
take to make the organization more resilient
What You Will Learn
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How to Design & Implement a Resilient
Infrastructure
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Enterprise involvement and buy-In of the
business continuity plan
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Tools and techniques to be used when implementing a
BC/DR plan
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Shared experiences of how other IT departments are
effectively managing DR/BC
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How to identify and minimize risks to your most business
critical-business systems
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How to make sense of the different high-availability &
clustering technologies
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How to implement effective backup and restore
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Data encryption: Proactive Measures for Security &
Backup Processes
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How to Test Your Infrastructure Plan
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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)˛, 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.
