Smart Archiving–
Think Outside the Box:
Strategies that Scale With Your Data

As a storage-focused IT professional, you're used to worrying about storing information to keep your organization running. However, many organizations are finding themselves saving most data essentially forever. Few consider the dark cloud underneath the silver lining of traditional storage management – not knowing what data you have can ultimately hurt you. Litigation readiness under the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, privacy, compliance and other rules are putting organizations at risk of having the wrong data in the wrong place for what is now the wrong time.

You're invited to a half-day breakfast seminar featuring Mark Diamond, an independent expert on data retention strategy planning. This free educational discussion will address new requirements for understanding your data -- and how an effective archiving strategy can help your organization better understand what you have and what actions you can take to reduce risks and lower costs.

To secure your seat at this exclusive seminar sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems, call Delegate Services Manager Marc Petito at (781) 657-1569 or apply online.

What You'll Learn at this Breakfast Seminar

In developing an archiving strategy, there are several traps that you need to avoid:

• Living with one of two highly unwise extremes: (a) ignoring the need for archiving, or (b) keeping everything forever
• Focusing exclusively on the data center when, in many organizations, as much as 80% of data is unstructured and outside the data center
• Making the faulty assumption that archiving is simply plug-and-play, when you need strategy and technology that will scale and adapt to (a) changing litigation and compliance requirements, and (b) evolving systems, applications and file types within your infrastructure
• Deploying a proprietary system that may handcuff your ability to manage your strategy as demands and needs evolve in the short and long term

This seminar can help you avoid these traps and will provide keys for getting started with an informed approach.

In Mark Diamond's keynote presentation, Enterprise Data: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You, he'll share from his experience the background of the challenges you face and best practices he's used in developing practical, dynamic archiving and retention strategies.

You'll also hear from technical experts from breakfast seminar sponsor Hitachi Data Systems, as they illustrate the need for an archiving system that can be deployed enterprise-wide across data type, is open and scalable, and is accessible over time. HDS will also offer a roadmap for what you can expect from their merger with archiving leader Archivas.

About Mark Diamond

Mark Diamond is one of the industry thought leaders in electronic document retention strategies and practices. As CEO of Contoural, his company helps numerous Fortune 500 companies reduce risk, ensure compliance and lower costs in complying with new requirements for saving e-mail. A frequent industry speaker, Mr. Diamond addresses how organizations can cut through the confusion over saving e-mail, and develop sensible, workable and cost-effective electronic document retention policies. He recently served as Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association customer advisory board on data security. Further, Mark sits on the board of advisors for several high technology companies.

About HDS

Hitachi Data Systems has a number of solutions to address any issues you have with your data storage, depending on your business goals. And with the introduction of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, we can help you implement a competitive archiving strategy. Your situation is unique, and so is the solution that Hitachi Data Systems can help you deploy.

Recommend your colleagues

Let us know which of your colleagues can benefit from attending this exclusive half-day event. We are pleased to extend an invitation. Please send your colleagues' contact information to Marc Petito.

**Please Note: Due to space constraints, all prospective attendees must apply prior to this event and receive confirmation from the event producer that the application was accepted and approved. No "walk-ups" please. Thanks for your understanding.

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