Conference
Program
8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental
Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am
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Jackson |
Enabling the Resilient
Enterprise -- Aligning Disaster Recovery and
Business Continuity with Business Objectives
John Jackson, Executive
Vice President & Chief Risk Management Officer,
Fusion Risk Management, Inc.
Today many corporate IT
organizations find their capabilities have
become out of sync with the needs of the
business. A critical mismatch can exist between
the Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives
as compared to the resources available to meet
these objectives. Business leaders and
executives may not be fully aware of the risks
inherent in their current strategies and
infrastructure needed to keep the business
running.
In this session, attendees
will learn a framework approach to develop
business-aligned strategy, planning and
processes and ensure you have the opportunity to
build and maintain what the business needs and
expects.
Topics covered will
include:
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Evaluating recovery
objectives vs. recovery capabilities
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Measuring and
prioritizing risk the business chooses to
address vs. risk it chooses to accept
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Effectively
communicating risk to business leaders and
senior executives
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Determining whether
your Data Center and Disaster Recovery
strategy can support current needs and
future growth
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Developing a
business-aligned multi-year strategic
roadmap
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Developing and
presenting the business case to achieve the
capabilities necessary to meet business
needs.
10:00am - 10:30am - Refreshment Break
10:30am - 11:30am
|
Schulman |
How to
Determine Which Data Protection Options Best
Support Your Resiliency Efforts
Ros Schulman, CBCP, Senior Line Manager,
Data Protection, Hitachi Data Systems
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:
Areas that will be covered include:
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What data needs to be
protected against
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How to apply different
levels of protection to different data
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How to address issues
of complexity when protecting data
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How to assess the risks
of your data
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How to apply metrics to
your data protection
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How to better
understand which technologies are the best
fit for your organization
11:30am - 12:30 pm
|
Kwong |
Building the Resilient/Highly Available
Infrastructure: How to Design, Implement and
Manage
Fred Kwong, Ph.D.,
Network and Distributed Security Technology,
GITO, large financial institution
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 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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How to design your
infrastructure from beginning to end
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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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Pitfalls
to avoid when designing your infrastructure
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How to
manage and troubleshoot any challenges that
may occur
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon
1:30pm - 2:30pm
|
Sumar |
Virtualization in a Redundant/Highly Available
Environment: The Tradeoffs
Annur Sumar, Sr.
Infrastructure Architect, Duff & Phelps, LLC
Many claim that there are inherent
advantages in utilizing virtualization in a
disaster recovery environment. But what are
they and is there a trade-off between
increased potential security
threats/increased management and complexity
versus a more efficient DR environment?
In this session attendees will learn:
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What are the cost comparisons or
financial tradeoffs when moving to a
highly available/resilient environment?
(ie. Servers are being consolidated, but
does this outweigh the additional
storage/SAN space needed for the highly
available environment?)
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Can money be conserved in a testing
environment and does this outweigh the
production investment in virtualization
technologies?
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Is there staff and personnel savings
along with time and money in this
environment?
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What pitfalls should your teams be aware
of?
2:30pm - 3:00pm -
Refreshment Break
3:00pm - 4:00pm
|
Freedman |
Covering Your Apps: Protecting and Prioritizing
Your Mission Critical Applications in a Disaster
Avi Freedman, VP Cloud Services, ServerCentral
A typical organization has thousands of Windows
applications, each with many single points of
failure (SPOF). 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 application availability and
disaster recovery.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
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Susina
Roseman
Nootens
Conlee |
Today’s Climate: How to Justify Funds for Your
High Availability Environment
(panel discussion)
Moderator:
Steve Susina, Director of Marketing, Laurus
Technologies
Panelists:
Jeff Roseman, Director, IS Infrastructure,
Patterson Medical
John Nootens, Director, Networking, American
Medical Association
Keith Conlee, Chief Security Officer, IT,
College of DuPage
and other enterprise IT management
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.
What You Will Learn
Content that will be presented includes:
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How to do more
with less in challenging times
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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
Conference Price:
$219.00 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)², 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.
