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11 KEYNOTE PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 15TH OCTOBER CONT... THURSDAY 16TH OCTOBER CONT...
15:45-16:45 REDUCING YOUR DATA FOOTPRINT WITH DE-DUPLICATION for most organisations when looking at medium storage
KEY CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN THIS SESSION: policy. The challenge for business is to identify and
• Reducing storage requirements anticipate growth, and to exploit scalable technology
• Increasing efficiency, reducing energy requirements that can accommodate these data trends. This session
• Reducing asset redundancies looks at the advantages of clustered storage in terms
of performance, availability, capacity, connectivity,
Data De-duplication is a method of reducing storage needs and accessibility and costing; and through case study
boosting efficiency by eliminating the inherent data redundancies analysis identifies the technological hurdles that can be
that exist in many traditional storage and data protection overcome with the implementation of clustered storage
processes, such as backup. Accordingly, de-duplication has been to meet business needs.
heralded as one of the most exciting emerging technologies in Chair: Andrew Reichman, IT Infrastructure Analyst,
the storage market, and reports from some of the first Forrester Research, Inc.
organisations to have deployed it appear to substantiate this Speakers: Darren Sykes, Technical Architect, CSR
excitement. In this session, organisations that have implemented David Mountford, VP of IS, CSR
de-duplication technology will share their experiences and Graeme Hackland, IT Manager, Renault F1 Team
discuss whether the reality really does live up to the hype. Justin Hourigan, Senior Network Engineer, HEAnet,
Chair: Simon Robinson, Research Director, The 451 Group Ireland's Education and Research Network
Speakers: Simon Spence, CIO, CB Richard Ellis
Steve Bruck, Infrastructure Architect, Associated Newspapers Ltd 13:00-14:15 PROTECTING YOUR DATA WITH BACKUP STRATEGIES
KEY CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN THIS SESSION:
THURSDAY 16TH OCTOBER
• Discover practical best-fit models for data backup
• Disaster recovery strategies and considerations
10:30-11:30 EMAIL MANAGEMENT AND ARCHIVE - HOW TO SPEND WISELY • Organisation size and sector specific backup solutions
KEY CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN THIS SESSION:
• Overview and analysis of email management challenges Data backup is an essential part of any responsible
• Evaluating email management by software as a service (SaaS) organisation’s storage strategy, with suitability of
• Meeting regulatory and business drivers different strategies depending on size and sector. In
this session we explore the strategies that global
Email is arguably the most important business application that companies have employed to ensure the availability and
any organisation runs, yet bringing control to the email flood, recovery of their information, in order to meet specific
remaining compliant with increasingly unforgiving regulations business demands. Case studies will be discussed
and making sense of divergent technology solutions to tame the looking at the rationale and technology behind what are
email beast is a near impossible undertaking. At one end of the the best back-up solutions in the world. Probably.
equation is the issue of backup and disaster recovery, alongside Chair: Michael Barwise, Strategic Information Security
storage and server optimization - but at the other end the Intelligence, Integrated Infosec & Editor,
business units are demanding policy management, regulatory Infosecurity Adviser
compliance, monitoring and eDiscovery for all mail and Speakers: Dylan Mathias, Unix and Storage Manager,
messages. How to balance the needs of both and build out a Britannia Building Society
cost effective and efficient solution is something that is tasking Graeme Walker, Senior Systems Engineer, Carlsberg
many organisations. Drawing upon current independent and Tony Lock, Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics
global research, this session will share best and worst
practices in both licensed and serviced email management, 14:30-15:30 DEAL OR NO DEAL
along with a no holds barred examination and evaluation of the The toughest challenge in data storage returns. A line-up
current archiving and technologies in the marketplace. of vendors representing some of the most exciting and
Chair: Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal, CMS-Watch innovative products in the storage market today have a
Speakers: Duncan Scott, CIO, DTZ maximum of just 3 minutes to pitch their product to a
Tony Hendley, Managing Director, Cimtech Ltd panel of the leading experts in storage, followed by a
Michael Christoforou, Storage Market Solutions, EMEA Lead, barrage of the toughest questions. With no slides, props
CSC Computer Sciences Ltd or hands to hold. Intimidating, informative and
entertaining - this is a unique challenge for
11:45-12:45 MODULAR ARCHITECTURE: GROWING WITH CLUSTERED STORAGE representatives who believe that their product really is
KEY CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN THIS SESSION: the best in the market. At the end, only one company can
• Reducing capital outlays and paying as you grow emerge victorious.
• Predicting future capacity demands Chair: Simon Robinson, Research Director, The 451 Group
• Optimising capacity and provisioning Speakers: Tony Edwards, Head of iValue, BG Group
Tony Lock, Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics
The concept of pay-as-you-grow storage makes business sense Theresa Regli, Principal, CMS-Watch
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