Conference Program
8:00 am - 9:00 am - Registration and Continental
Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am
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Wenk |
How to Design and Implement a High Availability
IT Infrastructure to Support Your Business
Dennis Wenk, Principal Business Consultant,
Hitachi Data Systems
Every day it becomes even more important for an
organization’s IT infrastructure to respond and
adapt quickly to business needs. Taking it a
step further the IT infrastructure must be
highly available and fully redundant in the
event of unforeseen disasters. IT
infrastructures have evolved with different
technologies to be more efficient and in many
cases more complex.
Paradoxically, the more complex and involved
systems have become the more they can actually
undermine efforts to achieve high availability.
In this session attendees will learn:
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Steps to make your complex IT infrastructure
highly available
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An analysis (BIA, Cost of Downtime, RTO, RPO)
framework for determining high availability
requirements for your organization
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An understanding of the different levels of
high availability and which one is
sufficient for your organization’s needs
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How to understand the business drivers of
high availability and how they will affect
your financial investments
10:00 am - 10:30 am - Refreshment Break
10:30 am - 11:30 am
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Brower |
Haste Makes Waste: Determining What is
Necessary vs. What is a ‘Nice to Have’
Robert K. Brower, Vice
President, Professional Services & Technical
Support, Americas, CommVault 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.
In this session, you will learn a process to
help determine where you need to spend and areas
that you can avoid to achieve the level of
resiliency required by the organization to
support your business objectives.
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Nootens |
Prioritizing Critical Applications: How to
Determine Which Applications Are Most Important
During a Disaster
John Nootens,
Manager,
Networking and Security, Tribune Company
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.
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Luncheon
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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Peglar |
How to Ensure Availability When Migrating from
the Physical to Virtual World
Rob Peglar, Vice President, Technology, Xiotech
Corporation
Talk of
virtualization seems to be everywhere today.
Many organizations are realizing economic
savings from virtualization technology
implementations. IT financial benefits
include reduced numbers of servers, reduced
power and cooling costs, and reduced operational
impact as IT demands increase.
In this session, attendees will learn:
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How to take advantage of your investment
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How to find operational savings, while reducing RTOs
and RPOs.
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Specific areas that must be covered when implementing DR
capabilities within your virtualization
infrastructure and environment
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How to reconfigure resources from the virtual pool that
can take on the regular production workload
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Refreshment Break
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Gibson |
How to Create and Implement Effective IT
Infrastructure SLAs That Align Specifically to
Your Business Needs
John Gibson,
Principal Systems Engineer,
Storage and Server Management Specialist, Symantec
The importance of SLAs for your IT
infrastructure cannot be understated. 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 and
your internal ‘customers’
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How to work with different stakeholders so
they each know their roles when a disaster
hits
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Berg
Greenberg
Sullivan
Olson
Barkin |
How to Justify Funds for Your High Availability
Environment (panel discussion)
Moderator: Peter Berg, Territory VP for the
Enterprise North, CompuCom Systems, Inc.
Panelists:
Brian Greenberg, Director of Data Protection
Services, Large Financial Enterprise,
Steve Sullivan,
Director, IT & CSO,
Central DuPage Hospital,
Steven C. Olson, IT Professional, Acxiom/Career
Education Corporation
Abe Barkin,
Business Continuity and Planning (BCP) Team,
Security Education and Awareness and
Reverification, Allstate
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 attendees will learn from a
panel of seasoned DR/BC professionals as to how
they win the fight for funding by being able to
articulate the business reasons and why the
project should take priority over other IT
projects.
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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How to Test Your Infrastructure Plan
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How to Refine Your Infrastructure/Data Center Plan
Conference Price:
$199.00 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.
