Date & Time:  Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - 11:30 AM

Organizations today face a number of challenges related to data management. This ranges from exponential storage growth as a result of increased digitized content, mountains of regulatory requirements, and the need to ensure timely access to data, to pure infrastructure/equipment costs. For most organizations, the growth of information is outpacing their ability to manage it - and pay for that management. But it shouldn't be that way. With an intelligent data management strategy, organizations can store, manage and protect data based on its business value - and thus actually reduce costs, maximize storage utilization and protect themselves vis-à-vis compliance regulations. This session will address how to manage and structure data with ease and efficiency to meet business and regulatory needs within existing budgets and will explore best practices for taking advantage of a tiered storage infrastructure.

Attendees will learn:

• How to establish requirements and policies for managing data as it ages
• How to clearly define and deploy a tiered storage infrastructure that aligns data on the appropriate class of storage based on business value
• Tools and techniques for data discovery, classification, storage, migration and protection without breaking the bank
• Pitfalls to avoid when leveraging a tiered data management approach

Instructors

• Spencer Sells, Senior Director of Product Management, Data Protection and Retention Group, Network Appliance