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Optimizing Your Cloud Backups

November 11, 2021
11AM – 3:45PM EST | 8AM – 12:45PM PST

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Optimizing Your Cloud Backups
The rise of ransomware attacks makes cloud backups a more attractive option by the day. When done properly, cloud backups create a safer environment that is less prone to security breaches and data loss. But here’s where people mess it up: they become complacent, forget to test, and falsely assume their cloud service provider is responsible for security. This virtual event will share cloud backup best practices from some of the industry’s most knowledgeable.

November 11, 2021
11am – 3:45pm EST
(8am – 12:45pm PST)

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AGENDA

KEYNOTE 1

  • 11:00am – 11:45am EST
Data Recovery as a Cloud Backup Objective
Presented by: Dennis Hahn, Senior Analyst, Cloud and Data Center Storage, Omdia

Cloud backups have many advantages, especially for recovery. And the diversity of backup mechanisms and options have never been greater. For these reasons, care should be taken to understand your unique recovery needs before selecting a cloud backup architecture and approach.

This keynote from Omdia Senior Analyst Dennis Hahn will make the case for why recovery should be your primary focus for data protection re-planning and modernization efforts. As Hahn puts it, “When we flip our mindset to recovery-based planning, the use of cloud backup shines and offers a new level of data protection.”

The keynote will cover:

  • Today’s backup requirements and the role cloud plays
  • With recovery as the goal, how cloud should be integrated How “cloudification” of your data protection strategies can benefit your organization
  • What technologies should anchor your backup modernization efforts
  • The diversity of approaches for cloud backups
  • How adding cloud to your arsenal of recovery capabilities can save the day
  • 11:45am – 12:00pm EST

Fireside Chat

With: Joe Kelly, Cloud Solutions Architect at Rubrik
Presented by
Dennis Hahn
Senior Analyst, Cloud and Data Center Storage
Omdia
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NETWORKING BREAK
  • 12:00pm – 12:15pm EST
Networking Break

Sponsored by: Fortinet

KEYNOTE 2

  • 12:15pm – 1:00pm EST

Cloud backups 101

Presented by: Orin Thomas

Let’s face it: Everything you want to learn about cloud backups is available online. But information overload is a real obstacle, and sometimes it’s easiest to hear from an expert. In this explainer keynote, listen as an industry cloud backup expert shares the latest research and insight on what data you should put in the cloud, how often you should back it up, how to choose the right solution providers, and other top considerations for optimizing your cloud backups.
  • 1:00pm – 1:15pm EST

Fireside Chat

With: Scott Wotring, Content Director, ITPro Today
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  • 1:15pm – 1:30pm EST

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PREMIER SESSION

  • 1:30pm – 2pm EST

Don’t Risk Your SaaS Data to Ransomware.
Here’s What You Need to Know

Presented by: Andy Fernandez, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Zerto and Rick Sloane, Senior Partner Director, Keepit

Moving to the cloud delivers many benefits, like cost optimization and infrastructure reliability. And cloud-based data protection and recovery is quickly becoming the new norm. But when it comes to protecting your SaaS data and applications, do you know who is responsible? Hint: It’s not your SaaS vendor. In fact, 70% of organizations will have suffered a business disruption due to unrecoverable data loss in a SaaS application by 2022*.

Join Andy Fernandez and Rick Sloane as they discuss optimizing cloud data protection for SaaS.

Hear how:

  • Protecting SaaS data in cloud services like Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace, and Dynamics 365 is your responsibility
  • You can unlock secure, robust and scalable data protection for SaaS backup scenarios, from ransomware to file deletions
  • You can protect cloud data across your SaaS services with one simple solution

*Gartner, Assuming SaaS Applications Don’t Require Backup is Dangerous, Nik Simpson, October 2020

Presented by
Andy Fernandez
Senior Product Marketing Manager,
Zerto
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Rick Sloane
Senior Partner Director,
Keepit
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PREMIER SESSION

  • 1:30pm – 2pm EST
Fortify Your Ransomware Resilience with Cloud Backup & DR
Presented by: Peter Elliman, Director of Product Marketing, Druva

Twenty one days – the average downtime from a ransomware attack in Q4 2020 (up 11% from Q3 2020).*

With a recent increase in the number, sophistication, and cost of ransomware attacks IT leaders are looking into strategies that will reduce the risk and potentially disastrous implications of an attack to the business. A modern SaaS-based data protection platform can provide the resilience organizations require and enable substantially faster recovery of both data center and cloud workloads (versus traditional data protection), minimizing or eliminating the financial impact of downtime and lost data. Building resilience to ransomware is easier than ever with the power of the public cloud.

Join us for this interactive webinar to learn:

  • How the increased threats & regulations are driving change in data protection strategies
  • How the public cloud can transform your data center backup & DR approach
  • What to consider when evaluating your cloud backup & DR options
  • How SaaS-based data protection can help you quickly recover from a ransomware attack

*Coveware Quarterly Ransomware Report Q4 2020 – source

Presented by
Peter Elliman
Director of Product Marketing,
Druva
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NETWORKING BREAK
  • 2pm – 2:15pm EST
Networking Break
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SPOTLIGHT CUSTOM WEBINAR
  • 2:15pm – 2:45pm EST
I Thought I Standardized in One Cloud – Now I’m in Three. Help!
Presented by: Louie Ferreira, Cloud-Native Market Expert and Bill Gurling, Cloud Architect

You’re moving more services to the cloud, but suddenly, the developers begin pushing workloads to a different public cloud. And Internal departments are using yet another cloud themselves.

Sound familiar? You’re not alone.

According to Gartner, about 75% of enterprise customers using cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) will adopt multi-cloud by 2022, up from 49% in 2017. Multiple providers are common when it comes to different business operations, their various use cases, and the type of workloads they’re running.

But while a multi-cloud environment provides flexibility, it can be a challenge to ensure overall data security and visibility, proper management, and governance.

Join cloud-native market expert Louie Ferreira and cloud architect Bill Gurling as they walk you through how to:

  • Shed the toil caused by changing cloud environments
  • Consolidate your data management via automation
  • Future-proof further changes to your cloud strategy
Presented by
Louie Ferreira
Cloud-Native Market Expert,
Rubrik
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Bill Gurling
Cloud Architect,
Rubrik
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NETWORKING BREAK
  • 2:45pm – 3pm EST
Networking Break
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PANEL SESSION

  • 3pm – 3:45pm EST
Ask the Experts: How to Do Cloud Backups Right

Moderated by: Sue Troy
Panelists: Krista Macomber, Senior analyst, Evaluator Group • Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting • Greg Schulz, Senior advisory analyst, StorageIO Consulting • Rich Castagna, Contributor, Informa Tech

When it comes to cloud backups, you have questions; we have answers. Your cloud backups seem to be working. But how can you ensure they are fully optimized? Furthermore, with so many technologies and solutions on the market, how can you ensure your backup strategy is still sufficient? Bring your thorniest questions to this Q&A-style panel of cloud backup experts.

Moderated by

Sue Troy
Sr. Dir., Products and Solutions,
ITPro Today
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Prizes & Interaction

Attend the live conference on November 11th, 2021 and win! The more you participate, the more points you earn! It’s that simple. You’ll earn prize points for each activity you participate in throughout the virtual conference. Points will be calculated at the end of the live event day.

*Giveaways are limited to North American residents only. Winners are limited to one prize per calendar year for Informa Tech sponsored events.

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30 Points

Session Viewed

25 Points

Zone Visits

20 Points

Location Chat Attended

10 Points

Documents Viewed

5 Points

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Optimizing Your Cloud Backups

November 11, 2021
11:00 AM – 3:45 PM EST
(8:00 AM – 12:45 PM PST)

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Natalie Silvanovich
Security Researcher,
Google

Natalie Silvanovich is a security researcher on Google Project Zero. Her current focus is messaging applications and video conferencing. Previously, she worked in mobile security on the Android Security Team at Google and as a team lead of the Security Research Group at BlackBerry, where her work included finding security issues in mobile software and improving the security of mobile platforms. Outside of work, Natalie enjoys applying her hacking and reverse engineering skills to unusual targets and has spoken at several conferences on the subject of Tamagotchi hacking.

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Dennis Hahn
Senior Analyst, Cloud and Data Center Storage, Omdia

Dennis covers data center storage technologies, including SAN, NAS, DAS, cloud storage, NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeOF), and software-defined storage (SDS). He has more than 25 years of broad storage industry technology experience, which includes storage systems design, product and project management, corporate and product strategy, and storage innovations development and market insight.

Specializing in storage technologies, Dennis has created winning products, such as the MetaStore SAN, which grew to $60 million in annual revenue. He also holds patents in storage systems design, data caching, and hybrid cloud data migration. He is certified in Agile development practices and cloud solution architectures.

Orin Thomas
Cloud and Datacenter Expert

Orin Thomas has written more than 3 dozen books for Microsoft Press on topics including Windows Server, Windows Client, Azure, Office 365, System Center, Exchange Server, Security, and SQL Server. He has authored Azure Architecture courses at Pluralsight, has authored multiple Microsoft Official Curriculum and EdX courses on a variety of IT Pro topics, speaks at conferences around the world, and is completing a Doctorate of Information Technology on cloud computing security and compliance at Charles Sturt University. You can follow him on twitter at twitter.com/orinthomas

Andy Fernandez
Sr. Manager of Product Marketing,
Zerto

Andy Fernandez is the Sr. Manager of Product Marketing at Zerto with years of experience in the backup, disaster recovery, and cloud space. With a focus on product marketing, messaging, technical evangelism, and product launches. After spending time in the start-up space and working in the enterprise, he ultimately strives to translate technical innovation to business value.

Robin Manke-Cassidy
Director, Product Marketing Network & Security, Citrix

Robin leads product marketing messaging for the Citrix Networking and security portfolios. She joined Citrix 8 years ago with experience in a variety of product management and marketing roles in the mobile and client space. Previously, she spent two decades in enterprise IT management in a variety of roles including access, security, datacenter server management, and networking. She holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Arizona State University.

Peter Elliman
Founder/Director and Systems Analyst,
Advanced Network Computing Laboratory

Peter Elliman is a director of product marketing at Druva, a cloud-based data protection and management company. In his current role, Peter helps Druva and its partners convey the value of the Druva Cloud platform for data center workloads.

Peter has experience launching new products, disrupting traditional markets, and helping marketing teams to drive revenue. Prior to Druva, Peter held roles at McAfee, Liquid Robotics (a Boeing company), Symantec/Veritas, and IBM. He holds two degrees from the University of Virginia, including a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and an MBA from its Darden Business School.

Louie Ferreira
Cloud-Native Market Expert,
Rubrik

Louie Ferreira has 7+ years of experience driving enterprise software solutions in Fortune 500 and Commercial businesses. In his past 3+ years at Rubrik he has worked with customers to build and acquire data resilience, cyber recovery and cloud data management solutions. Louie has a MBA in Finance and is adept at merging technology and finance to drive dynamic business outcomes for customers. In his current role he leads Global Go-To-Market for Rubrik’s Cloud Native Protection where he works with clients to recommend and implement solutions for protecting infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and SaaS-based applications.

Bill Gurling
Cloud Architect,
Rubrik

Bill has over a decade of professional experience designing, building, implementing, and managing cloud, mobility, and security products. Bill has worked in many industries including IT security, logistics, retail, financial analytics, DoD, technology consulting, and software development. Bill has held many roles including, end user support, systems and database administration, automation, managerial, product, and architect roles. Bill was a member of the Army National Guard where he managed an IT infrastructure team for a unit supporting thousands of soldiers. Bill’s current full time role is as a Principal Architect at Rubrik where he focuses on cloud native workloads.

Sue Troy
Sr. Director, Products and Solutions
ITPro Today

Sue Troy is senior content director for ITPro Today. She has spent more than 25 years writing and editing IT-focused content, with long stints at companies such as TechTarget and Ziff Davis Publishing.

Before joining Informa in May 2017, she was editorial director of TechTarget’s CIO, IT Strategy and Channel Media Group, where she was inspired by emerging technologies such as IoT, blockchain and artificial intelligence.