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Regional Storage & Virtualisation Events

Make the right storage & virtualisation decisions

Designed to give you all the information you need to make the right storage & virtualisation decisions for your organisation, these focused seminars provide a full agenda of presentations, demonstrations and interactive Q&A with NetApp, VMware & ISC specialists.

Dates & Locations

  • 11th March - Tatton Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire
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  • 18th March - St Paul's Cathedral, London
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  • 28th April - Duxford War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire
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  • Estimated start time 09.30
  • Finish time is estimated at 15.00
  • A buffet lunch will be provided
  • A full agenda with timings will be sent one week prior to the event

Who Should Attend

Any IT professional from the datacenter to the desktop who is involved in planning and implementing storage & virtualisation in their organisation.

Presentations

NetApp: Storage Efficiency
presented by Craig Menzies

Data growth is inevitable. NetApp products are designed to reach never-before-seen levels of efficiency when storing this data. Users of NetApp storage systems realise three key benefits through this efficiency:

  • They can store the maximum amount of data for the lowest possible cost.
  • They can retain data on disk for longer periods of time.
  • They can reduce data center power, cooling, and space costs.

NetApp is the number-one and fastest-growing provider of efficient data storage systems. In today’s resource-constrained world, our customers commonly reduce their overall data storage costs by 50% or more.


VMWare: Maximising The Value Of Your Virtualisation Strategy
presented by Ambrose Pang

It reduces costs, downtime, speeds the resolution of problems, improves manageability and control, and helps IT maintain security and data protection. The end result is higher availability and improved staff productivity.

VMware will cover the following topics:

  • Desktop virtualisation
  • SRM
  • Datacenter Efficiency
  • Updates from VMworld 2009


ISC: Technical Demonstrations
presented by ISC Technical Architects

    • Instant online backup & recovery of VMs in a NetApp environment
      Demonstration of SnapManager for VI
    • Virtual storage management
      Demonstration of thin provisioning, volume prioritization & deduplication
    • Site Recovery Manager in a NetApp environment
      Demonstration of SRM (SM, FlexClone)
    • Virtual desktop deployment
      Demonstration of VDI


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