Topic: Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

Seminar Topics

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.

Testing Your Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plan – Are You Ready?

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

A panel of local senior IT Professionals will take questions from the audience to discuss their experiences with testing disaster recovery and business continuity plans. A wide range of topics will be discussed including specific lessons learned, specific tools used, and what methods need to be altered. Bring your questions so that you will be ready to take the plunge and test your plan!

Cyber Resilience: Data Protection Strategy in the Age of Ransomware

  Presented by Zerto

Ransomware threats increased by 300% last year, and the industry is expecting it to get worse. Ransomware victims’ greatest pains are downtime and data loss. Current DR and Backup solutions aren’t equipped to help you manage it at the speed of business. Join us for this discussion on how to transform your data protection approach to ensure you can protect your data and resume operations almost instantly when facing a ransomware attack. See you there!

Data Protection for the Cloud Era

  Presented by Druva

While more companies are now leveraging the cloud to increase their level of data protection and management, there are still many wondering “why?” The answer: the cloud actually brings substantial advancements to the data protection and management table that simply aren’t possible without it. The easiest advantage to envision? Unlimited scalability. If a data protection tool is properly designed, the capacity should automatically expand to meet any customer’s needs. The second advantage: the cloud is the simplest way to centralize the storage of all secondary data sources while also providing unlimited compute that can be used to gain additional insight and business value from that data. Finally, the ability to do automated Disaster Recovery (DR) without maintaining a DR facility is unquestionably a major value of the cloud, and simply isn’t possible otherwise.

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.

A New Era of Data Protection: Converged DR and Backup

Presented by Zerto

In today’s always-on, information-driven organizations, business continuity depends completely on IT infrastructures that are up and running 24/7. Being prepared for any data related disaster is key!

  • The cost and business impact of downtime and data loss can be immense
  • Data loss is not only caused by natural disasters, power outages, hardware failure and user errors, but more and more by software problems and cyber security related disasters
  • Having a plan and process in place will help you mitigate the impact of an outage on your business.

In this presentation we will address the challenges, needs, strategies, and solutions.

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 BCDR 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.

Data Protection for the Cloud Era

  Presented by Druva

More and more enterprises are now leveraging the cloud to increase their level of data protection and management for their applications. The ability to keep secondary, or backup data in cloud storage; eliminates traditional data centers, reduces operational complexity associated with legacy on-premise backup solutions, allows unlimited scalability, centralizes storage of all secondary data sources, provides unlimited compute, allows for additional insight and business value from that data. and finally, and finally, the ability to do automated Disaster Recovery (DR) without maintaining a DR facility.

Hold onto Your Butts! Build a Better BC/DR Plan Than Jurassic Park

  Presented by Jimmy Tassin • Member, InfraGard

Business continuity and disaster recovery should be a key priority in all levels of business. Where the largest of companies can stumble when something happens (InGen) because not all potential factors were considered, SMBs can be chaos! Between convincing management to get solutions in place, figuring out what to put in place, determining what makes up a good plan and testing it once it’s in place, can be a monumental task for a small team, or a team of one. With seven years experience in the banking industry and working extensively with regulations, Jimmy will pass along what he learned about building a proper BC/DR plan, testing it, and recording to prove it’s getting done. He’ll also share a few “disasters” where things didn’t go the way they should have, to help you avoid the same pitfalls.