Conference Program

In part 3 of CAMP’s series on Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity, we focus on Data Protection and Recovery Strategies that support the extended enterprise.

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:00 am

How to Design a Data Protection and Recovery Strategy that Meets Regulatory Requirements

Sharon Isaacson, Director of Product Management, Spectra Logic Corporation

Although IT professionals do not need to become experts in legal matters, they do need to understand how the regulatory requirements are affecting data protection and recovery strategies and how they have to act in accordance.

In this session, attendees will learn how they can help the organization meet regulatory requirements by handling the following challenges:

• ‘We don’t know what we have!’

• How to disclose data breaches

• Understanding liability to injured parties

• Remediation costs

• Reputation risk

Attendees will receive sound advice as to how they can design an effective strategy that will help to eliminate potential risks, data breaches and liabilities.

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

10:30 am - 11:30 am

How to Determine if Your Current Data Protection and Recovery Strategies are Meeting the Needs of Your Organization

Dave Chapa, Senior Technical Advisor, Quantum Corporation

Making sure your strategy meets regulatory requirements is critical, but just as important is meeting the needs of your extended enterprise.  Inappropriate or inadequate data protection and recovery strategies are everywhere.  The key is to make sure yours is not one of them.  Understanding if your strategy is meeting the needs of your organization includes measurements of the following:

• Have you included laptop and desktop computers in your backup strategy?

• Are you focusing on all of your data or just ‘mission critical’ data?

• Are your storage and files systems antiquated?  Are they keeping up with the dynamic needs of your business?

• Have you thought about equipment malfunctions and media failures?

In this session, attendees will learn how to involve measurements of their current practices to see if they are effectively safeguarding the critical needs of the business.

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

How to Leverage Data Management Disciplines to Design a Robust Data Protection and Recovery Framework for Your Specific Organization

Dave Little, Engineer, Symantec

Having a solid data protection and recovery infrastructure involves more than just having the right infrastructure.  It involves thorough planning and design.  But how do you get started?

In this session attendees will learn how to leverage sound data management principles to design a robust data protection and recovery strategy.

Topics that will be covered include:

• An understanding of the applications and processes that are driving the business

• How to manage data through a ‘mission critical’ approach

• Understand and decide on the platforms that can help

• Focusing on assets that need to be replicated

• How to understand the impact of business realities in your planning

12:30 pm -1:30 pm  Luncheon 

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

How to Determine which Data Protection and Recovery Technologies are the Best Fit for Your Organization

Ken Giden, Senior Solutions Architect, Data Protection and Replication, Hitachi Data Systems

In this session, attendees will be provided with an overview of the data protection and recovery technologies available along with their pros and cons. 

Areas that will be covered include:

• Tape Backup

• Data Deduplication

• RAID

• Continuous Data Protection and Recovery

• Data Vaulting

• Archiving

• SAN Security

Attendees will gain a better understanding of what combination of technologies are best suited for their company.

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Refreshment Break

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Data Protection & Recovery Strategies in Virtualized Environments

Keith Baskin, Storage Practice Manager, Optimus Solutions

This session will discuss the issues involved with backup and recovery in virtualized environments. Virtualization is one of the fastest growing technologies in the data center today.  While the advantages of virtualization are just being realized, the challenges around backup and restore of this new technology approach are just coming to light.  In this session you will learn how organizations are addressing granular backup and restore, quick restore and integration into existing backup infrastructures as well as how technologies such as de-duplication can play a role.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

How to Get Buy-In for Your Data Protection and Recovery Infrastructure (panel discussion)

Moderator: Josh Bilow, Business Director, PKWARE, Inc.

Panelists: Steve Sullivan, Director, IT & Information Security Officer, Central Dupage Hospital,

John M. Ferenzi, formerly, MDB-IT Global Disaster Recovery & Business Resiliency, Motorola,
Debbie Jaffe, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Manager, Fidelity Information Services,

Susan Nuccio, Vice President, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity, Jones Lang LaSalle,

In this session, attendees will learn how others enterprise IT departments made their case to management to get buy-in for a solid data protection and recovery infrastructure.

Topics that will be covered include:

• What can/will happen if this investment is not made

• How to translate technical requirements into business-speak

• How to get buy-in from non-IT teams

• How this is more than just an IT decision and how it impacts the extended enterprise