• Key drivers – why information needs to be stored
• Understanding the value of your data and why you need to manage and protect it
• Combating data loss that can lead to revenue shortfalls and decreased customer confidence
• What storage can do for YOUR business

• The importance of successful storage management in a fast growing transhipment hub
• Resources management in a 24/7 operation environment 
• Storage management challenges and solutions

• Investing in the right solution for your business - what should your strategy enable?
• The importance of disaster recovery to your organisation
• Deploying storage software for effective disaster recovery
• Understanding recovery point & recovery time objectives and effectively testing your DR plan

• What storage options do organisations face? 
• Using the right technology for the right ends
• How technologies can be applied to suit particular business needs

• The information & content explosion 
• Information Lifecycle Management 
• Distributed computing 
• The road ahead
  

• Assessing the benefits of networked storage
• Enabling faster data transfer speeds
• Designing and creating a scalable SAN strategy
• Providing end users with continuous availability

• Fibre channel and iSCSI – competing or complementary technologies?
• The emergence of iSCSI and Ethernet as viable SAN technology
• Consolidating storage over IP 
• What do the different interfaces enable enterprises?

• Deploying a highly reliable, flexible and scalable storage area network
• Enabling exceptional customer service 
• Eliminating down time
• Modifying storage configurations to meet fluctuating application demands

• Using stored data to help retain competitive advantage  
• Meeting the demands of increasing data volumes
• Providing users with the availability and capacity they require

• Successfully consolidating your business' storage strategy for high availability
• Centralising management of the whole infrastructure
• Providing a unified, strategic view of your data

• Understanding the data storage requirements in a mobile telco
• The need for a consolidated view of data across the company
• Overview of a consolidated data storage architecture
• Implementation strategy

• Increasing availability – keeping mission critical and customer facing applications online
• Enhancing existing operations and preparing the way for expected growth
• Cutting the administrative and management costs of maintaining storage environments

• Increasing efficiency and maximising capacity with storage resource management tools
• Improving disk utilisation and storage management 
• Outlining key selection criteria when selecting a SRM tool – considering both business and technical benefits

• Aligning your storage strategy with the needs of your business
• Balancing the cost of storage with information’s changing value over time
• What scalability does it allow?
• Why adopt and ILM approach?

• Managing information in a way that ties its value to business goals 
• Using ILM to meet compliance mandates
• Assessing the economic and operating benefits of an ILM strategy

• Protecting mission-critical information
• Centralising and streamlining information protection procedures
• Implementing a highly scalable, reliable back up solution
• Ensuring security as information grows
• Utilising encryption software

• Assessing the various disaster recovery methods
• Reducing the costs of unplanned downtime
• Securing data both on and off site
• Meeting the storage requirements for disaster recovery in a cost effective way

• Is it too early to be writing the obituary for tape-based systems?
• Implementing a hybrid tape and disk system to ensure economical storage 
• Virtual tape libraries – the move to disk based backup?
• The importance of meeting backup windows

Led by Sun Microsystems
 

Learn all about integrating best-in-breed technologies to reduce the cost, complexity and risk of acquiring, managing and distributing data. Learn how these solutions can produce direct benefits to the operation of an enterprise.

Peter Tandy, Global Data Management Practice, Sun Microsystems

Consolidation of storage systems is one solution under consideration by more and more companies as a way to address this challenge. Consolidation holds the promise of simplifying operations, reducing costs, and improving resource efficiency. Here how Sun are leading the industry with unique offerings in the mid-range and enterprise to achieve these goals.

Scott Wilson, Solutions Architect, Sun Microsystems

Learn about the technologies and solutions that will really impact the design and implementation of storage within tomorrow's data centre.

Phil Jones, Senior Director, Hitachi Data Systems

Understand how technologies are driving storage connectivity over distance.

Jean-Jacques Effosse, EMEA Marketing Manager, McData

A presentation regarding the Content Infrastructure System from Sun Microsystems. The customer ready solutions addressing content management cost, scale and TCO offering integrated and automated policy management of data in heterogeneous environments. The correct management of content is the key to compliance.

Zaher Haydar, Technical Storage Architect, Sun Microsystems

A presentation about the full end-2-end range of continuity solutions from Sun Microsystems, from backup restore processes to full application clustering to maximise application availability. A review of the Business Impact Analysis will also be shared, highlighting the value of this approach to our customers.

Scott Wilson, Solutions Architect, Sun Microsystems

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision – The Network Is The Computer™" – has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at www.sun.com