BC2512

Planning and Implementing Simple, Affordable, Automated Disaster Recovery Through Dell

Traditional disaster recovery infrastructures have failed to keep pace with business requirements for recovery speed and integrity at a reasonable cost, due to complexity and lack of standardization. Despite growing requirements for business continuance, internal issues such as limited resources, organizational inertia, and distributed ownership can also impede progress. Virtualization, as an abstraction layer between computing resources, not only provides a variety of benefits, including greener IT, reduced complexity, optimized resource use, and cost reductions, but also modernizes disaster recovery by enabling organizations to design a recovery plan that is more affordable and more flexible than traditional options, and even accelerates its implementation. In this session, we'll take a detailed look at the design, planning, and implementation of disaster recovery solutions, drawing from actual customer deployments and case studies.
This session will discuss:
-How VMware Site Recovery Manager, together with EqualLogic iSCSI Auto-Replication technologies, enables organizations to plan, implement and test simpler and more affordable disaster recovery solutions
-How SAN-based data protection tools integrate into the virtualized infrastructure to provide rapid restore times and enterprise-level recovery
-How to prioritize and address a structured planning approach in order to build an Enterprise-wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Program

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Paul Rad( Dell,Inc. ), Timothy Sherbak( Dell, Inc. ), Debi Higdon( Dell, Inc. )

Paul Rad is the practice executive for virtualization
and data center optimization for
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services.
He has master's degrees in both Computer
Engineering and Computer Science from the
University of Texas.

Debi brings more than 20 years of experience in mission critical BC/DR planning. Debi's responsibilities include driving DELL IT BC/DR plan globally.

Tim Sherbak's responsibilities at Dell include solutions marketing for the Dell EqualLogic product family, partnering with key technology providers, including VMware, Inc. Prior to Dell, Tim held management roles at Network Appliance where he was involved in the planning, launch, and marketing of multiple generations of NAS, SAN, and iSCSI products. Previously, Tim focused on enterprise and technical computing systems products at Silicon Graphics. He holds an MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BS in Systems and Information Science from Syracuse University.