Join us for an exclusive, half-day seminar to explore new and emerging big data technologies such as the SAP HANA in-memory platform, designed to help you deliver on the promise of real-time analytics, critical business insight and superior performance. You will also hear about how Cisco and NetApp will offer cloud solutions that will carry your business into the future.

Attendees will hear directly from BI, data warehousing and cloud visionary William McKnight, President, McKnight Consulting Group, as he examines today’s complex data and analytics environment and reveals the latest techniques to capitalize on the full business potential of big data analytics and a virtualized environment.

More likely than not, your next disaster will be a data disaster. Having spent the past 50 years amassing unmanaged data and deploying it on poorly managed infrastructure, then working to make our data available via impossible-to-secure networks, our irreplaceable asset – our data – is at greater risk in 2013 than at any time in history.

The challenge is to create a data protection strategy that works to reduce risk of catastrophic loss, corruption and disclosure, using the right technologies, and that is sustainable over time.

Brand new for 2013, The New Rules of Backup and Data Protection combines two of our most popular seminars (Next-Gen Backup School & Disaster Recovery for the 21st Century) into one full-day educational experience where attendees can get all the info they need into the tools and best practices that will bring their data backup and disaster recovery plans to the next level.

Coming to 23 cities across the globe this year, independent industry experts will guide you through proven ways to deal with Windows apps and desktops in a world of tablets, BYO, and web. Spend just a few hours out of the office to take advantage of a live Q&A, peer networking opportunities and tons of valuable information regarding how to effectively manage your users’ desktops in the consumerization era.

During this complimentary half-day event, independent experts, Brian Madden and Jack Madden, examine IT consumerization trends – “BYOD”, mobile device management (MDM), etc. – and explore how technologies like desktop virtualization, MDM software, cloud computing and others can help you regain control of IT. When you leave this exclusive seminar, you’ll understand what the consumerization of IT really is and what steps you need to take to address it in your organization.