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Attend these 15-minute webcast previews and Q&A interviews presented by the top storage experts who will be presenting at the Storage Decisions conference this April, and get a glimpse of the important topics they'll cover. Get your tough questions answered in the Q&A portion of the webcasts, and learn which of the tracks you'll want to focus on to better prepare yourself for the show.
For complete description of the 40+ sessions you can attend at Storage Decisions, click here.
Building a Storage Management Group
Presented by Stephen Foskett, Senior Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies
Sponsored by CreekPath
With the increasing complexity storage management brings to an organization it may be wise to think about setting up an internal storage group within your IT department. Stephen Foskett covers how many admins you need, what their responsibilities are and how to align staffing resources with requirements.
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Best Practices for Enabling and Maintaining Compliance
Panelists Shaun Mahoney, Senior Storage Engineer, Citigroup and Randy Wilson, VP, IT, Essex Investment Management Company, moderated by Peter A. Gerr, Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group
Sponsored by Permabit
Peter outlines the steps to take to address corporate governance and regulatory compliance for valuable and critical corporate information. He highlights the trends, pitfalls, and future relative to corporate governance and information protection in regulated industries and shares the best practices, expert advice, and relevant end-user success stories regarding compliance.
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Fixing What Storage Management Tools Can't
Presented by Richard Scannell, VP of Corporate Development & Strategy, GlassHouse Technologies
For some reason, storage management is a discipline that is misunderstood, under-appreciated and in many cases poorly performed. For some years now, IT management has been grappling with how to control the ever-growing monster of storage, but the problem continues to worsen.
Richard Scannell takes a pragmatic view of the storage industry as it stands, examining the real issues as they pertain to IT managers and attempt to segment the facts from the fiction and the fears from the foolishness.
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RFP workshop for SRM & Policy-Based Management: Creating RFP's that Achieve the Right Results
Presented by Jamie Gruener, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Computing and Networking, The Yankee Group
Jamie Gruener looks at the top five priorities you need to consider when evaluating storage resource management (SRM) tools. He explains how these priorities translate into questions you need to ask vendors as part of an RFP. Attendees to his webcast preview will also learn the top five "gotchas" that customers have experienced in evaluating SRM, and how to avoid these issues by asking the right questions during the review process.
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Best Practices for Buying Storage
Presented by Bill Peldzus, Director of Storage Architecture, GlassHouse Technologies
By understanding the best approaches for buying storage you can get the best deal for your company. Along with tips and techniques for rating RFI and RFP responses, it will put you -- the buyer -- back in control.
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Data Archiving Today: It's not just about Compliance
Presented by James Damoulakis, Feature Writer for Storage Magazine, and CTO, GlassHouse Technologies
In this session preview, James Damoulakis discusses emerging challenges of archiving. Key discussion points include forces driving long-term retention, existing and emerging technologies, process development and organizational change, and factors to consider in archiving policy development.
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Integrating Disk into Backup
Presented by W. Curtis Preston, President and CEO, The Storage Group
In this webcast presentation, W. Curtis Preston teaches you how to design a backup architecture that works for your environment, at the right cost and with the least administration.
Attendees will learn valuable criteria to use when selecting backup software and hardware, cost-saving tips on where to spend your money (and where to spend it where it counts), and how to separate the hype from reality about LAN-free, client-free and server-free backups.
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Writing a Switch RFP
John Webster, Senior Analyst and Founder, Data Mobility Group
Building a SAN requires careful and detailed attention to the SAN switching environment. Acquiring the best switch configuration for a given environment or set of applications can be a daunting task. Getting vendors to speak to these issues in their responses to your RFP will help you construct a SAN that will hold-up under a production work load and make changing the configuration as time goes on a much easier proposition. This webcast walks step-by-step through these issues and offers attendees the critical information needed to get the most out of the switch-buying experience.
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