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Breakout Session Track 3
Monday - March 7, 2005-
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

Strategic Session 3
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Solving the Puzzle: Making Sense of Mass Notification Features & Benefits
Patrick Stuver
National Notification Network

With the latest highly-functional mass notification systems, you may feel like you need a decoder ring and a cheat sheet to figure out which features are mission-critical, must have, or important to have, and which features will make your system a valuable “everyday” operational tool. Join us as we crack the code and explain both what’s available and which features will best fit your organization. In this interactive session, we will define everything from abstract concepts to commonly used terms in mass notification and help determine what YOU need when it comes to formulating or improving your BC/DR plan.
Patrick Stuver is a partner and founder of National Notification Network (3n). He is a co-author of the widely circulated white paper “CRM Markets and Strategies: An Everse Approach.”


Managerial Session 3
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Compliance and Operational Recovery
Jerry Montella
Mail-Gard

Companies need to be aware of how they manage their print and mail operations relative to regulations such as GLB, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley. With federal regulations like these to comply with, it’s more important than ever to have a recovery process in place that works, not just on paper, but a tested and documented print and mail recovery plan. This session will provide information on how to analyze processing, infrastructure, current backup capabilities, recovery and restoration plans and will give you valuable insight into determining your company’s risk and the best options for your recovery solution. Information on how to manage costs and meet regulatory compliance, even if print/mail operations are outsourced will be reviewed.
Gerald A. Montella serves as general manager of Mail-Gard. In this position, he is responsible for developing and managing the company’s sales and marketing activities, including advertising, trade shows, direct sales and independent sales representatives.


Technical Session 3
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Continuity/Recovery Planning for a Distributed Environment
Alan Hughes
TSYS

Disaster recovery in a mainframe world has its own pitfalls, but planning for BC and DR in a distributed environment brings a host of new challenges. Disparate hardware and software, linked over LANs, MANs, and WANs, backed up by various backup software, with differing procedures and timing, with different support personnel for each component makes recovery planning for the distributed environment more complex than for centralized systems. There are practices, all with their own implications, that can help to mitigate the risk inherent in distributed systems. This session will discuss the issues, risks, and procedures involved in BC/DR for distributed systems.
As a director of application development for TSYS, Alan Hughes is responsible for directing the development of a web-based product for major credit card issuers, including related recovery and security issues.


Emergency Response Session 3
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

E-mail -The Critical Business Application: It Will Fail - What You Need to Know to Keep it Running
Satin Mirchandani
MessageOne

For DR professionals, e-mail is the single biggest application nightmare. By 2005 an estimated 16 billion business messages will be sent daily in the U.S. alone – clearly emails has emerged as the most mission-critical application used throughout all areas of the enterprise. Its importance to the organization has made the need to maintain e-mail and to prevent e-mail outages one of the leading DR challenges. E-mail must not fail – but the reality is that e-mail does, and will fail, and as a DR professional it is essential to know how to keep it running, no matter what. This session will cover the latest research on why e-mail fails, and discuss the technology and preparation necessary to ensure e-mail continuity.
Satin Mirchandani is the chief executive officer of MessageOne, and a member of the MessageOne Board of Directors. He is reponsible for the overall leadership and strategic direction of the company. Mirchandani has been actively involved in the development of MessageOne since early 2001.


Advanced Session 3
Advanced

Understanding the Alternatives for Extending Storage Area Networks
Tom Nosella
Cisco

Regulatory requirements and business economics are making business continuance solutions mandatory for enterprises. Expert estimates indicate that storage capacity for the IT industry is growing an estimated 49 percent annually. Because stricter government regulations are demanding longer data retention and because greater amounts of data are being generated through business automation, this growth trend is likely to continue. To accommodate the vast amounts of data needed throughout enterprises, many IT organizations are switching from direct-attached storage to storage-area networks (SANs). The presentation will examine the myriad of SAN extension technologies available to IT administrators today with and will explain how they can best match the most appropriate technology according to the business and technical requirements of their organizations.
Thomas Nosella is director of technical marketing within the Internet Switching Business Unit, now responsible for the development and marketing for Cisco’s storage networking solutions since the completion of the Andiamo Systems acquisition. Thomas and his team are responsible for the creation, validation, and promotion of Cisco Storage Networking designs and solutions for Cisco’s enterprise and service provider customer base.


Information Session 3
Novice/ Intermediate

Professionalism in BCP

This session features an overview of the certification and education programs available from DRI International. DRII has been providing instruction in business continuity planning (BCP) methodology since 1988. Staff and leaders will be on hand to describe course objectives, the process for attaining certification in BCP and other services.
DRII is a recognized leader in providing education, standards, and professional certification. DRII’s goals are to create a base of common BCP knowledge through education, assistance, and the development of a resource base; to certify qualified individuals; and to promote the credibility and professionalism of certified professionals.


Sessions/ Workshop Schedule

Sunday Workshop Sessions Sunday, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
General Sessions Various Times (Mon/Tues/Weds)
Breakout Session Track 1 Monday, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Breakout Session Track 2 Monday, 3:15 p.m - 4:15 p.m
Breakout Session Track 3 Monday, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m
Breakout Session Track 4 Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday Worshop Sessions Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m

 

 

 
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