How to Define and Implement a Comprehensive Disaster Recovery/Data Protection Plan
Dick Benton, Principal Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.

A comprehensive disaster recovery and data protection plan needs to be your insurance policy against loss of data.  Think of it as business protection. It should be easy to understand for all the different stakeholders including IT and the respective business units.  But how do you know what you should be protecting and to what level?

In this session attendees will learn:

·         How to define your particular data protection requirements

·         Which areas should receive priority over others?

·         What is your acceptable level of risk/loss?

·         How quickly you need to recover?

·         How to understand equate level of downtime with your organization’s financial exposure

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

10:30am - 11:30am

How to Map Key Metrics: From Your Key Business Processes to the Supporting IT Infrastructure
Dennis Wenk, Independent DR/BC Consultant, Industry Thought Leader

While determining a strategy, the disaster recovery and data protection team should reference their organization's business continuity plan which should indicate the key metrics of Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for various business processes (e.g. CRM, Supply Chain, Payroll, etc). The metrics specified for the business processes must then be mapped to the underlying IT systems and infrastructure that support those processes.

In this session attendees will learn:

·         How to map RTO and RPO metrics to the IT infrastructure

·         How to best determine the most suitable recovery and data protection strategy for each system.

·         How to understand the trade-offs between desired level of data protection and the cost associated with it

·         How to articulate the results of the process of mapping RTO and RPO to the infrastructure

11:30am - 12:30pm

How to Understand, Simplify and Leverage the Different Backup and Replication Techniques 
Mike Peebles, Product Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard

There many techniques that organizations can use to protect, backup and recover their data and they each have their pros and cons.  How do you determine what techniques and technologies are the best fit for 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:

·         Traditional backup (Full vs. Incremental vs. Differential)

·         Disk vs. Tape

·         Replication (Remote and local)

·         Deduplication

·         Continuous Data Protection

·         Encryption

12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Virtual Protection: How to Protect Data and Applications in a Virtual Environment
Dave Kluger, Principal Technology Architect, StorCOM

This session explores and outlines how to apply and manage an effective backup strategy in a virtual server environment that not only effectively protects virtual machines but also the enterprise applications running inside the virtual machine.

In this session you will learn:

·         How to build and deploy an effective backup solution in their virtual environment while achieving

·         How to improve RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) of backups

·         How to optimize backup in a virtualized environment

·         How to significantly lower backup windows

·         How to achieve efficient data mobility

·         How to avoid pitfalls

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

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Ledyard

How to Manage Disaster Recovery & Data Protection in the Internal Cloud
Eric Ledyard, Chief Technology Officer, AHEAD; Data Domain partner

While many organizations are moving towards building next-generation internal cloud architectures, not many are prepared to protect their data in these new environments.  How do you prepare for it and what questions should you be asking as it relates to data protection?

In this session attendees will learn best practices and questions you should ask your cloud provider.

Areas that will be covered include:

• How to securely manage data in an internal cloud environment.
• How to make sure your processes meet the requirements of the business for your production applications.
• How internal cloud computing architectures impact your DR plans.
• What type of cloud approach is best for your organization when factoring in disaster recovery and data protection?
• What are the disaster recovery plans of the cloud provider?

4:00pm - 5:00pm

DeVito Janssen Shotts Warner

How to Develop a Business Case for DR and Data Protection
Moderator:
Michael DeVito, Sr. Business Development Executive, LSI Corporation
Panelists:
Thomas F. Janssen, Director of IT, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Horace Mann Insurance
Deborah Shotts, IT Disaster Recovery, State of Illinois

Scott Warner, Manager Technical Operations, Hart Schaffner Marx
and other professionals from enterprise IT departments with disaster recovery and data protection experiences

 

In this session attendees will learn from a group of seasoned enterprise IT disaster recovery/data protection professionals as to how they have developed a successful business case that has received management’s approval.

Topics that will be addressed include:

·         How to write up the business case

·         What areas to emphasize

·         What areas to avoid discussing

·         How to articulate in language that business leaders can understand

·         How to make sure your plan cover current technologies as well as potential new technologies
 

 

Conference Price: $219.00 per person
 

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What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn how to: 

• How to understand, simplify and leverage the different backup and replication techniques

 

• How to effectively leverage the complementary technologies in DR and archiving environments

 

• How to develop a business case for DR

 

• How to do more with less

 

• Understanding and acting on the five most important rules for backup and recovery

 

• Signs you are headed for a backup disaster

 

• How to properly backup data in a VM environment

• The readiness of online backup for the enterprise

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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)², Inc.

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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.