BC3817

How to Protect Your IT Infrastructure at a Second Site With VMware and Replication

Are failed tests, capital expenses, resource strains and stress preventing your company from having a reliable BC/DR program? Are you concerned about server proliferation at your production and DR site? Are shorter recovery time and recovery point objectives moving you away from tape-based solutions?
In this session, hear from an organization that is leveraging virtualization technologies coupled with business continuity/disaster recovery strategies to quickly, reliably and cost effectively perform virtual recovery—all while eliminating inherent dual site challenges, retaining existing investments and keeping pace with newer technologies for a more nimble and resilient IT infrastructure.

Technical Overview Session

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

1 Hour

Jason Maki( SunGardAvailability Services ), Mark Zwartz( JMB Insurance ), Bob Parker( SunGard Availability Services )

Bob Parker, Director, Advanced Recovery Product Management at SunGard Availability Services is an expert in aligning enterprise needs for higher levels of availability with SunGard's AdvancedRecovery services. He is well-versed in the latest trends in storage replication, and works with the SunGard team to develop services satisfying customer requirements for new levels of disaster recovery — leveraging tools from traditional tape-based back-up to real-time replication and electronic vaulting. Bob has been focused on high availability solutions for a number of years. Prior to managing AdvancedRecovery services, he supported the sales team in educating the market about the benefits of high availability.

For the past 8 years, Mark has headed the JMB technology department as Manager of Information Technology and lead systems engineer. JMB is comprised of three main business environments (insurance, real estate and trading). Prior to JMB Mark was with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP Management Consulting Service as one of three team lead engineers and project managers for PwC office hoteling project and global implementation.

Jason Maki is the Lead Systems Architect in SunGard Availability Service's Product Architecture and Planning group. His extensive experience and knowledge have positioned him as the expert in creating high availability solutions that leverage intelligent automation and remediation. In the past eight years, Jason has developed services in the network, systems and application arena that have supported many of the Fortune 100. His solutions have linked technical engineering and operational efficiencies, creating profitable cutting edge solutions. Jason has been honored by Fujitsu Network Services as being a top engineer in his field.