Managing Unstructured Data to Save You Time and Money

Organizations today are generating more data than ever before. In fact, SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine’s most recent Storage Purchasing Intentions Survey found that storage professionals expect to add at least 40 TB of disk capacity this year.

Really, exponential data growth is nothing new for storage pros. In recent years, it’s seemed that the amount of data generated can’t possibly increase from one year to the next -- until it does.

Lately for those responsible for their company’s data, a new concern has arisen: as capacity demands have continued to increase, the *types* of data that storage pros are responsible for are now dramatically changing as well. Unstructured data – from presentations and spreadsheets to emails and instant messages to images and audio/video files – now accounts for a vast majority of this rapid increase in data – and in the resultant complexity of storing that data.

It’s become clear that just adding capacity – while ignoring the context of data - i.e. the associated format, attributes and applications associated with the data object - is no longer an option, which is why this free, half-day seminar may be the most valuable half-day you spend out of the office this year.

Join keynote speaker Mark Diamond - an independent expert on data retention strategy planning, thought leaders from industry leaders Dell and Symantec, and an intimate group of 25 of your peers at this seminar that provides real-world, practical approaches to find, control, and manage your organization’s unstructured data.

To reserve your FREE seat, apply online or contact Delegate Relations Manager Jen Tobin at 617-431-9722.

SPECIFIC TAKEAWAYS

The benefits of implementing an effective, well thought-out data retention strategy is worth repeating. Not only does a more intelligent approach to data management and data retention have the potential to reduce primary storage demands, but you can expect to reap benefits like reduced costs, shortened backup and recovery times, increased IT productivity, and the ability to quickly locate specific items in order to respond to litigation and compliance issues.

At this seminar, Mark Diamond – CEO of Contoural – along with experts from Dell and Symantec, cover real-world, actionable data retention strategies, including:

• Effective strategies for identifying and saving the right data for the right amount of time, and defensible deletion for the rest
• How companies with effective archiving strategies actually have less data
• Addressing the human element and getting employees to comply with data retention and deletion policies
• Building consensus across legal, IT and other groups on data retention strategies
• Automated solutions to drive intelligent data management for compliance and control

As you can see, you’ll spend just a few short hours at this seminar and then return to the office with valuable insight into the most effective methods and technologies for managing unstructured data.

Apply today!

Speaker Biographies

Mark Diamond
CEO, Contoural

Mark Diamond is one of the industry thought leaders information governance, data archiving and litigation readiness strategies. As CEO of Contoural, his company helps more than 20% of the Fortune 500 bridge legal, compliance and business needs with effective IT strategies. A frequent industry speaker, Mark addresses how organizations can achieve consensus across multiple stakeholders, develop effective, real-world policies, and consistently and defensibly execute these policies across the enterprise through the right processes IT systems and training. Under his leadership, Contoural has grown to be the industry leader in developing proactive data retention, litigation readiness and compliance strategies.

 

Troy Lehman
Technical Strategist, Symantec

Troy Lehman has 15+ years of experience in the storage industry with roles ranging from front line solution design, product management and technical marketing.

 

Kay Benaroch

Senior Marketing Consultant, Dell

Kay Benaroch is a senior marketing consultant at Dell focused on data protection, deduplication, and object-oriented storage, and has more than 30 years of experience in marketing technology products.

 

Jane Fanning
Storage Field Marketing Manager, Dell

Jane Fanning is Storage Field Marketing Manager with over 20 years of technology marketing experience including 5 years in the storage industry. Prior to joining Dell, Jane worked at CIGNA Health Insurance as an internal consultant to the IT disaster recovery team and at EMC as a pre-sales solution lead in healthcare, life sciences and enterprise segments. In addition to storage pre-sales, Jane managed server solution marketing and alliance/partner joint solution business development programs at Compaq/HP, Unisys and DEC. Jane holds a MBA from Boston University, MS in Information Management from University of Maryland and a BA from Wheaton College.