Why Every Business Needs a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Strategy

  Presented by Veeam

Today’s applications and data sets are larger, more complex, distributed and interdependent than ever. While many have a disaster recovery plan in place, executing, testing and documenting these plans is often complex and cumbersome.

We’ll also discuss:

  • State of BCDR today and what hinders DR planning for most companies
  • Why backup strategy is not DR strategy
  • Democratized DR of today (how tedious, manual procedures can be completely automated, and at accessible cost)

Updating Your BC/DR Plan to Include Pandemic

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

You were ready for a power outage. Cooling equipment has worked properly in your server room or data center. You had plenty of backup in the cloud and you felt good about your BC/DR plan, until a pandemic hit. The sudden shift to remote working for many industries forced rapid change for IT staffs to alter their business continuity process. Some of these changes were temporary, while some longer lasting.

Join the INTERFACE-Phoenix Advisory Council for a look at what BC/DR adjustments they have made in 2020. You will get tips on what has worked and what still is a challenge in keeping your users active and ensuring your business is fully operational.

Panelists:
Steven Porter • Manager of Information Technology, Alpha Geotechncial & Materials
Joanne Storbeck • Director of Business Continuity, HealthEquity
Jerry Simpson • Manager of Fire Technology, Phoenix Fire Technical Services

Why Every Business Needs a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Strategy

  Presented by Veeam

Today’s applications and data sets are larger, more complex, distributed and interdependent than ever. While many have a disaster recovery plan in place, executing, testing and documenting these plans is often complex and cumbersome.

We’ll also discuss:

  • State of BCDR today and what hinders DR planning for most companies
  • Why backup strategy is not DR strategy
  • Democratized DR of today (how tedious, manual procedures can be completely automated, and at accessible cost)

IT Interrupted: Best Practices in Disaster Recovery Planning

  Presented by Zerto

As IT application availability requirements continue to evolve, technology continues change to meet the new requirements. Join us as we discuss planning considerations for bringing your virtualized workloads into the next generation of IT resilience. You will learn about data center options to consider as part of your recovery strategy, business and technical trade-offs that will have to be made, capacity planning considerations, and testing approaches to that are possible that will optimize application up-time.

Are You Satisfied with Your Ransomware Protection and DR Strategy?

  Presented by CompuNet

Most of the organizations we work with have had a common challenge in not being fully content with their current ransomware protection and/or disaster recovery posture. In this session we will discuss modern approaches to both, that if you choose to implement, will not only help you sleep better but also allow for testing and reporting that you can use to prove your new strategy is working and ready to roll if an unfortunate event hits your operation. So please plan to join the data management and protection division of CompuNet – Gravity Data for this informative session that could just be a view into a more secure future for your organization.

State of Business Continuity Disaster Recovery, What Hinders DR Planning?

  Presented by Veeam

Today’s applications and data sets are larger, more complex, distributed and interdependent than ever. While many have a disaster recovery plan in place, executing, testing and documenting these plans is often complex and cumbersome. Join us to learn more about:

  • Why a backup strategy is not a DR strategy.
  • Democratized DR of today
  • How tedious, manual procedures can be completely automated, and at accessible cost

IT Interrupted: Best Practices in Disaster Recovery Planning

  Presented by Zerto

As IT application availability requirements continue to evolve, technology continues change to meet the new requirements. Join us as we discuss planning considerations for bringing your virtualized workloads into the next generation of IT resilience. You will learn about data center options to consider as part of your recovery strategy, business and technical trade-offs that will have to be made, capacity planning considerations, and testing approaches to that are possible that will optimize application up-time.

IT Interrupted: Best Practices in Disaster Recovery Planning

  Presented by Zerto

As IT application availability requirements continue to evolve, technology continues change to meet the new requirements.  Join us as we discuss planning considerations for bringing your virtualized workloads into the next generation of IT resilience.  You will learn about data center options to consider as part of your recovery strategy, business and technical trade-offs that will have to be made, capacity planning considerations, and testing approaches to that are possible that will optimize application up-time.

Innovation and Evolution: BC/DR for Today’s Multi-Cloud Environments

  Presented by Unitrends

We are living in a “Less is More” world. In a landscape that’s rapidly changing, IT professionals are managing more work, projects, and risk than ever before. While external threats such as malware and natural disasters cause significant downtime and data loss without proper BC/DR implementation, organizations must also be prepared to safeguard from within. Data continues to grow at an exponential rate, and not only on-premises. As cloud-delivered solutions such as IaaS and SaaS are rapidly adopted by an increasing number of organizations, and the workforce itself is becoming increasingly dispersed and mobile, organizations must consider data protection strategies to address gaps in BC/DR outside the traditional data center. Join Adam Marget, Technical Specialist from Unitrends, as we explore the evolving landscape of data protection, cloud’s growing role, BC/DR strategies to safeguard local, remote, and cloud-based workloads, and best practices in planning your DR approach.

Surviving the Hack!

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

In 2018, the Mat-Su Borough was the victim of major cyber-attack. In this session, Eric Wyatt, Director, Information Technology & CIO for the Mat-Su Borough will take you behind the hack. He will outline what happened, the response to the attack and how he survived this incident on a professional level. Also, Eric will be joined by several other Alaska IT leaders that were a part of the coordinated response. You will learn key tips on avoiding and detecting these attacks and also find resources that are available you may not be aware of.

Panelists:
Eric Wyatt • Director, Information Technology & CIO, Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Rob Barnett • VP, Information Technology, Olgoonik Development, LLC
Doug Miller • Sr. Management Consultant, Wostmann & Associates
Daniel Monarch • Cyber Security Specialist, Matanuska-Susitna Borough