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Strategic Session 3
Intermediate/Advanced

Recovery Site Evaluation:
Finding Viable Solutions

Michael Croy
Forsythe Technology

Shiraz Alikhan
Forsythe Technology

As organizations grow more dependent on their information systems, the need for hot sites becomes increasingly crucial. Organizations can be crippled by poor evaluation of recovery site investments. Should an organization hire an external provider or establish recovery facilities in-house? Which providers offer the best facilities and services at the best price? What data needs to be recovered? Answering these questions and more requires an evaluation of multiple business factors. Viable solutions do exist; the challenge lies in making the best choices for the business.
Michael Croy, Forsythe’s director of business continuity solutions, has more than 20 years of experience in building, developing and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity programs.
As principal consultant for Forsythe’s business continuity and disaster recovery solutions practice, Shiraz Alikan helps customers plan and implement initiatives.

Managerial Session 3
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

What Happens When Best Practices Aren’t Practiced?

Jerry Montella
Mail-Gard

If print to mail disaster recovery and continuity aren’t planned for or carefully executed, the results can mean no billing, no income...no business. Learn what happened to three companies that were impacted by Katrina. What were the best practices encouraged before the Hurricane? What actually happened? How did recommended & actual practices compare? What went right? What went wrong? What lessons were learned? What are the new Best Practices?
Gerald A. Montella serves as general manager of Warminster, Pa.-based Mail-Gard. 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
Intermediate/Advanced

Designing Multi-Site Disaster Tolerant Architectures

Stephen Haldeman, ABCP
Hewlett-Packard

Jeffrey Kight, ABCP
Hewlett-Packard

This session focuses on several case studies for multi-site clustering, data replication and failover. It covers the considerations and guidelines for designing a disaster tolerant architecture, along with examples for multi-site extended clusters and continental clusters. For each case study, we will discuss how customer requirements get translated into solution architectures and the infrastructure and services needed to build these architectures.
Steve Haldeman has 10 years experience designing business continuity and disaster tolerant infrastructure solutions. He manages the Americas pre-sales team which provides BC and availability solutions.
Jeffrey Kight is a senior solution architect with the business continuity and availability design team at Hewlett-Packard. He designs BC infrastructure solutions for enterprise and corporate customers.

Emergency Response Session 3
Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

WiFi Security

Douglas Conorich
IBM Global Services

Today, security needs to be the cornerstone of a company’s computer network. With the advent of wireless communications technologies, that security and privacy is threatened. This presentation will look at security techniques that both users and companies need to be mindful of in this new age. Learn the methods and forms of hacker attacks and industry standards, “Best Practices,’ that can improve your overall wireless security posture. This presentation will include discussion of wireless LAN security factors, the 802.11 security standard, encryption, and security issues.
Doug Conorich is the global solutions manager for IBM Global Services’ Managed Security Services. In this capacity, he has responsibility for developing new security offerings and all training of new members of the MSS team worldwide in how to do “ethical hacking” and service delivery.

Advanced Session 3
Advanced

Lessons Learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Ann Pickren
SunGard Availability Services

Bob DiLossi
SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services will discuss the lessons learned and challenges when facing disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We will share feedback from clients on how their businesses were impacted and how they reacted. A member of SunGard’s Crisis Management team will share challenges faced by clients, statisitcs and lessons learned.
Ann Pickren, senior vice president, SunGard Availability Services, is responsible for all availability software products that are designed, developed and supported by SunGard.
Bob DiLossi, manager of crisis management at SunGard is responsible for our crisis management center, which manages the alerts and disasters across the country. DiLossi is a leading expert in crisis management and has managed SunGard clients for more than seven years. He is a frequent speaker at industry and SunGard events.