Storage World 2004-05-24
Storage World 2004-05-24
How organisations are coping with the enormous mountains of data generated on a daily basis, and how the events of 9/11 shaped how organisations approach the problem, dominate this year's Storage World conference.
The variety and volume of data that organisations have to manage these days, whether it be emails, attachments, documents, databases, video or picture files, presents storage and IT managers with quite a headache, faced as they are with having to find effective and efficient storage solutions that can handle future requirements and which fit within ever tighter budgets.
This fact, allied to the fact that there are an increasing number of products on the market, with an increasing number of promises about what each of the solutions can give you, means that these individuals responsible for their organisation's storage requirements need guidance in determining their storage management strategy; interoperability between storage products; techniques to best utilise the storage that currently exists in their organisation; managing growing storage costs; business continuity and disaster recovery planning; and in making sense of all the new technologies and the promises that go with them.
This is where Storage World comes in. Taking place from 23-25 August at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, located at Darling Harbour, Storage World 2004 features a line up of international and local expertise for visitors to draw on, from the big picture, strategic level, right down to the implementation and daily management of storage.
Some of the key issues to addressed at Storage World 2004 include:
- Creating world class disaster recovery and business continuity plans
- I.T. crisis management, integrating systems, and making more with less
- Matching technology to the business: aligning storage technology with business requirements and objectives
- Understanding and using the new storage technologies
- Assessing and approving new technology solutions
- Setting up and managing a control structure-cutting through the misinformation, hype and spin in the world of storage
- Managing the total cost of ownership of data storage
- Ensuring the most efficient use of storage
- A look at future storage technologies and what you need to be thinking about nowAmong the speakers at this year's event will be Zalmai Azmi, CIO of the FBI. Azmi will share the disaster recovery and business continuity techniques he employed in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Centre on the 11th September, 2001, as well as insights and lessons learned from this experience.
Since joining American Airlines, Monte Ford, vice president and CEO, has had to deal with the US$742 million acquisition of TWA, a painful downturn in the economy, the sale of Sabre's outsourcing business and the terrorist attacks on 9/11, which included one American Airlines plane hitting the World Trade Centre and another hitting the Pentagon.
Amidst those events, Ford and his team had to pull off the integration of TWA's information and storage systems in eight short months. They succeeded, a victory Ford takes great pride in calling "a minor miracle." At Storage World 2004, Ford will provide an in-depth look at the challenges he faced and how he overcame them.
Also taking to the podium will be NASA's deputy associate administrator for programs, Ken Ledbetter. Ledbetter oversees all of NASA's spacecraft missions. He also manages NASA's Deep Space Network, the global network of antennae that the organisation uses to communicate with all of its spacecraft. So, for example, when the Galileo space probe dived into the atmosphere of Jupiter, it was up to Ken Ledbetter to ensure that NASA's storage could manage the many gigabytes of data being sent back to earth. Ledbetter will be sharing with his Australian audience some of the technology that NASA uses to manage, store and protect the data that it receives from space.
Last year's event was completely sold out, so secure your place today at Storage World 2004, call (02) 9005 0707, or book online at: www.storageworldweb.com
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