10:00 - 11:00 AM ET
Syncsort Sponsor Presentation
Improve RPO and RTO with Application Disaster Recovery

Backup, Recovery, and Disaster Recovery with NetApp SnapVault® and Syncsort Backup Express.
View this on-demand three-part presentation highlighting best practices, production customer case studies, and technical tips that can save money and reduce risk. Key discussion topics include:
• Instant availability for applications (Exchange/SQL)
• Innovative disk-to-disk bare metal recovery
• Block-level incremental forever
• Frequent, non-disruptive point-in-time Snapshot copies
• NetApp SnapVault and SnapMirror®

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from technical experts about how Backup Express integrates with NetApp SnapVault and Snapshot technology to seamlessly deliver fast, efficient, image-based, disk-based backup, restores, and disaster recovery, giving users high availability for both applications and servers.

11:00 - 11:45 AM ET
Opening Keynote Address
Information 2.0

Will The Rising Tide of Data Lift All Boats?

Moderator: Cameron Crotty, Editorial Director, eSeminars and Virtual Tradeshows

Speaker: Mark Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, EMC

12:00 - 12:45 PM ET
Microsoft Sponsor Presentation
An Overview of Windows Unified Storage Solutions

This webcast will include:
-Storage Overview
-Unified Storage
-Integrated Management Functionality
-Specific Products
-Summary
-What Resources are Available?

Moderator: Michael Krieger, VP, Market Experts Group, Ziff Davis Enterprise

Speaker: Tres Hill, Senior Product Manager, Windows Server Group, Microsoft

1:00 - 1:45 PM ET
Hot Button Panel 1
Creating an Efficient, Cost-effective Storage Infrastructure

Multi-terabyte storage capacities are commonplace, and it won’t be long before even mid-sized businesses start talking about petabytes. At the same time, many companies are struggling to identify and completely utilize the capacity that they already have. What’s the best way to create a storage infrastructure that can handle the enormous amounts of data that businesses are generating? And how can IT managers use that infrastructure as efficiently as possible? We’ll look at key trends and provide practical advice on infrastructure, including storage media, storage virtualization, management tools, storage area networks (SANs), network attached storage (NAS), protocols, all-in-one solutions, data acceleration and reduction, and more.

Moderator: Joel Shore, Virtual Tradeshow Host, Ziff Davis Enterprise

Speaker: Mike Sullivan, Senior Vice President, Product Solutions, Vericenter
Speaker: Tom Trainer, Senior Analyst, Evaluator Group
Speaker: Greg Schulz, Principal Analyst, StorageIO Group

2:00 - 3:00 PM ET
EqualLogic Sponsor Presentation
Backup and Restore with iSCSI: Best Practices for Enterprises
This presentation walks through how recent developments in iSCSI are bringing these backup solutions to Enterprise or departmental IT operations around the world. These techniques eliminate the "backup window" dilemma, streamline backup and tape performance, and provide for a robust, recovery architecture with rapid restoration times.

Join us as we review these backup and restore technologies and how they can support best practices in enterprise SANs:
• Disk-to-disk backup
• LAN free backups
• Snapshots (point in time copies) and Clones
• Proxy-based (snapshot) backups
• Replicated Backups
• Backups with Microsoft® Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for Microsoft® Windows® environments

Learn how to:
• Eliminate "backup window" problems
• Streamline and centralize backup performance
• Provide fast backup and restore times with snapshots
• Offload the application servers from the burden of online backups

Moderator: Michael Krieger, VP, Market Expert Group, Ziff Davis Enterprise

Speaker: Eric Schott, Director of Product Management, EqualLogic

3:00 - 3:45 PM ET
Hot Button Panel 2
Turning Stored Data into Managed Information

Businesses are discovering that storing data is only half the battle. The other half is finding it quickly when it’s needed, whether for business continuity, an audit, litigation, or competitive advantage. In this session, you’ll hear expert advice on the latest strategies and tactics for keeping essential data easily available, including information lifecycle management (ILM), enterprise search, tiered storage, and more. We’ll also cover the biggest storage, retrieval, archive, and backup challenges that organizations are facing today, including unstructured data, multimedia, and data from e-mail and other collaboration tools.

Moderator: Joel Shore, Virtual Tradeshow Host, Ziff Davis Enterprise

Speaker: Mike Casey, Vice President of Services Development & Marketing, Contural Speaker: Joseph Martins, Managing Director, Data Mobility Group
Speaker: Tom Petrocelli, President, Technology Alignment Partners; author, Data Protection and Information Lifecycle Management

4:00- 5:00 p.m. ET
CDW Sponsor Presentation
Virtualization Domination in the IT Enterprise: Making your data

Businesses today are more dependent on their data than ever. We will discuss how to use your Ethernet, Virtual platform, storage, and backup infrastructures to maintain data integrity, yet allow for growth without expensive hardware or software purchases. Key topics to discuss are: 1. Defining Data Portability 2. The pieces of Data Portability from storage - SAN & NAS - to Ethernet, data-backup and virtualization. 3. Data Portability Reality

Moderator: Aaron Goldberg, VP Market Experts Group, Ziff Davis Enterprise

Speaker: David Samic, Field Solution Engineer, CDW

4:00- 5:00 p.m. ET
Symantec Sponsor Presentation
Mastering Storage Complexity

Effective storage management becomes increasingly challenging as data centers become more heterogeneous and as storage growth continues to skyrocket. The real cost to manage this complexity, heterogeneity, and growth continues to spiral out of control. Based on the Veritas cross-platform heritage, learn how Storage Foundation and CommandCentral Storage deliver visibility and improved storage operations through centralized management, tiered storage, data migration and data sharing.

Moderator: Cameron Crotty, Editorial Director, eSeminars and Virtual Tradeshows.

Speaker: Sean Derrington, Director of Storage Management, Symantec

5:00 - 5:45 PM ET
Hot Button Panel 3
Is it Safe? Keeping Your Data Secure

As the value and volume of stored data rises, the ability to control access to that data becomes a critical part of a company’s storage plan. Businesses are looking for the right blend of encryption, identity management, authorization that will allow them to protect themselves, their customers, and their partners. Join us for a close look at the most effective techniques for managing the security of your storage infrastructure and discover how to create efficient, realistic security plans that will scale with your organization.

Moderator: Michael Krieger, VP, Market Experts Group, Ziff Davis Enterprise

Speaker: Terrance Griffin, Vice President, Information Services, Atlanta Postal Credit Union
Speaker: Ed Appel, CEO iNameCheck, President JCIAC

ON DEMAND - Sponsor Presentation: EMC
The What, Why, and How of the Information Explosion

According to a new IDC white paper, sponsored by EMC, in 2010 the world will create and replicate 988 exabytes—that’s 988 billion gigabytes—of digital information, more than six times the amount created and replicated in 2006. The growth and heterogeneous character of the number of bits in the digital universe mean that organizations worldwide, large and small, whose IT infrastructures transport, store, secure, and replicate these bits, have little choice but to employ ever more sophisticated techniques for information management, security, search, and storage. Find out from this webcast what the repercussions will be for you and your business....

Moderator: Michael Krieger, VP, Market Experts Group, Ziff Davis Enterprise

Speaker: Chuck Hollis, VP Technical Alliances, EMC