Permabit Seminars

Archiving Strategies for 2009:  How Archiving Can Salvage Today’s Storage Budgets

As companies face rapidly shrinking budgets they also face constantly expanding data storage requirements.  This seminar looks at this storage dilemma and presents innovative technologies and processes that enable organizations to improve data storage and management, all while saving money.

The event offers three presentations led by industry experts, and an open discussion and product demonstration session. Directly following the event will be a hosted cocktail hour at a nearby location.

Session Descriptions:

Storage Industry Trends
George Crump
President and Senior Analyst – Storage Switzerland

In this presentation, George will highlight the most current trends in the disk storage industry and how modern economic conditions are driving organizations to think differently on how they manage storage and operational costs moving forward.  Included will be more intelligent technologies and processes that allow organizations to best address the growing mountains of storage by placing the right data on the right storage tier.

During this session you will learn:

• The latest industry storage usage and growth trends

• New technologies that are changing the way storage is managed in the future

• Key criteria in evaluating archiving solutions

  >> About George Crump

CommVault® Simpana™ 8.0 Software Suite
Archiving, e–Discovery & Content Director
Gary Cooke
Archive Specialist – CommVault Systems

During this session, Gary will highlight the benefits of using a singular solution to archive all data types into a central storage repository.  Whether dealing with archiving for compliance purposes and eDiscovery or the much larger issue of archiving for storage management, he will discuss how having a single solution to address all data is key to simplifying and improving storage management.

During this session you will learn:

• How to archive to meet compliance / regulatory demands

• How to archive for effective storage management

• How CommVault Simpana can address all archiving needs

  >> About Gary Cooke

Disk–Based Enterprise Archiving
Mike Ivanov
VP Marketing – Permabit Technology

During this session, Mike will discuss the key requirements and benefits of disk–based archival storage solutions. While cost is the leading driver for organizations implementing a disk–based archival storage system, it will demonstrate the many efficiencies and benefits this technology delivers.  He will discuss how technologies such as SATA disk drives make this a reality today.

During this session you will learn:

• The four main criteria in measuring a disk–based archiving solution

• The benefits achieved by using deduplication in archiving

• How a grid storage architecture can reliably store data for decades

  >> About Mike Ivanov