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Sponsored by Syncsort
Successful business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse projects share one common characteristic: an explicit consideration of risk. Nothing addresses BI project risks as well as a rule-based audit (RBA) or proof of concept (POC) – not even a detailed project plan, expensive technology or high-priced talent. BI projects are peppered with risks, from data quality to analytic value to scalability.
Any one of these risks can bring projects to a halt, leaving planners scrambling for cover, sponsors looking for remedies, and budgets wiped out. Join Michael L. Gonzales, Principal with Claraview, for a Web seminar to define and describe two methods for mitigating BI project risks: RBAs and POCs. Both of these techniques provide the following benefits:
- Foster and formalize specifications that are not uniform or complete.
- Integrate prototyping as an innate part of risk reduction in your BI projects.
- Encourage re-work in the early stages of development. Independently used, each technique will help you clarify and better understand the risks associated with your projects.
Implemented together, they represent a continuum of risk mitigation. Their presence in projects is a demonstration of the professionalism and discipline found only in seasoned, successful BI teams.
Sponsored by Syncsort
Featured Speakers
- Richard Winter President of WinterCorp
- Leon Surgeon Product Marketing Manager, Data Management Products at Syncsort Inc.
- Shawn Rogers Executive Editor, Business Intelligence Network
Some trends can be ignored, but you certainly can’t ignore the trend of growing data volumes. There are petabytes and even exabytes in your future – are you prepared to deal with them?
With various business demands driving latency down and data volumes growing at rapid speeds, performance and scalability become even more critical to your organization’s ability to operate efficiently, productively and competitively.
Whatever your data volumes are now, they will be larger in the future. Do you understand the impact? Are you prepared?
Attend this Web seminar to hear from industry expert Richard Winter as he addresses key questions:
- What business trends are driving data warehouse growth?
- When we will see petabyte-sized data warehouses?
- How fast are data warehouses growing?
- Does the future really hold exabytes?
Presenter: Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO
Sponsored by Syncsort
Ever-increasing amounts of data continues to be accessed, generated and stored in remote office branch offices (ROBO) environments including small- and medium-sized businesses. Given the increasing number and diversity of threats to information and privacy concerns, data for ROBO environments needs to be protected in a timely and effective manner. In this Webcast, Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst of StorageIO, looks at options for protecting ROBO data including wide-area file and data services or distributed disk to disk backup among other approaches.
Techniques to be discussed include WAFS/WADS/WADM/WAAS, replication, disk to disk and network-based backup among others. It will also look at the wide range of options to ensure optimal remote office and branch office data protection, availability and performance.
Presenter: Bill R. Peldzus, Director of Storage Architecture, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Sponsored by Syncsort
ON-DEMAND EXPERT VIDEO TECH TALK
These days, keeping data safe and available should be a top priority in your organization. The possibility of your data being corrupted or ruined by a catastrophe is a real possibility and it is crucial to have a disaster recovery plan in place.
This video Tech Talk provides an insightful Q&A session with Bill Peldzus. View this presentation to hear Bill's advice on DR planning as he answers the most common questions and concerns surrounding disaster planning.
ABOUT THIS EXPERT VIDEO TECH TALK:
Devising a solid DR plan can be the difference between keeping your business going or closing up shop. In this video Tech Talk, GlassHouse's Bill Peldzus covers the intricacies of a DR plan and answers common questions, including:
- What is the most overlooked aspect of DR
- What is a rolling disaster and how can it affect your replication operations
- What's the difference between operational recovery and disaster recovery
- And much more
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Bill R. Peldzus, Director of Storage Architecture, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Bill Peldzus is Director of Storage Architecture at GlassHouse Technologies, Inc., where he is responsible for key client engagements. Prior to GlassHouse, Peldzus had more than 20 years' experience working in technical positions at Imation Corporation's Storage Professional Services and StorageTek's SAN Operations business group, as well as running multiple IT groups at CNA Insurance and Northern Trust Company. Peldzus often serves as a content expert in storage and disaster recovery and business continuity presentations, including speaking engagements at Storage Decisions for the past 4 years, Storage Networking World, Storage World Conference and regional Storage Networking Group Seminars. ning nine versions of UNIX, three databases and 250 servers. Since that time, Mr. Preston has helped dozens of companies design resilient storage systems, and his client list includes many Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies.
Presenter: W. Curtis Preston, VP, Data Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies Inc.
Sponsored by Syncsort
ON-DEMAND EXPERT VIDEO TECH TALK
A solid backup strategy is a major concern in organizations of all sizes but choosing the right system and strategy demands careful consideration. Without proper understanding of your company's needs, a number of costly mistakes and problems can occur.
This video Tech Talk provides an insightful Q&A session with W. Curtis Preston. View this presentation to hear Curtis' advice on backup strategies as he answers the most common questions and concerns surrounding backup.
ABOUT THIS EXPERT VIDEO TECH TALK:
In this video Tech Talk, GlassHouse Technologies' VP of Data Protection W. Curtis Preston, talks about diagnosing the root of your backup bottlenecks. Get expert insight to questions like:
- What is the most common backup mistake
- What are the benefits of disk-based backup
- When should you not add disk to your backup solution
- And much more
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
W. Curtis Preston, VP, Data Protection Services, GlassHouse Technologies Inc.
W. Curtis Preston authored Using SANs and NAS and Unix Backup and Recovery, the seminal O'Reilly book on backup. Mr. Preston frequently publishes articles in Storage magazine. His third O'Reilly book, Practical Backup and Recovery is now available.
Mr. Preston has been designing storage systems for more than a decade and has designed systems for environments ranging from backup systems for small businesses to enterprise storage systems for Fortune 100 companies. His passion for backup and recovery began with managing the data growth of a 24x7, mission-critical environment, running nine versions of UNIX, three databases and 250 servers. Since that time, Mr. Preston has helped dozens of companies design resilient storage systems, and his client list includes many Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies.
Widely recognized as the thought leader in the field of backup and the former President and CEO of the Storage Group, Curtis Preston joined GlassHouse in July 2004.
Presenter: Philip Russom, Senior Manager of Research and Services, TDWI
Sponsored by Syncsort
Caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, software solutions for extract, transform, and load (ETL) handle increasing volumes of data within decreasing batch windows. As if that weren't bad enough, users need to augment ETL's traditional over-night processing with intra-day jobs that integrate time-sensitive data. And many users want ETL to finish faster, so there's time for data quality processing. ETL's need for speed has never been more critical, and many user organizations will soon hit the data integration ceiling unless they can squeeze more performance from ETL software.
From this webinar, attendees will learn:
- Trends that are driving ETL toward serious limitations without more speed
- How the speed of ETL affects data integration scalability and right-time information delivery
- How to achieve ETL speed, whether through users' design practices (like distributed ETL architectures) or vendors' tool capabilities (like parallel processing and change data capture)
Today's economy demands that enterprises maintain and process data in real time. Therefore, they are searching for solutions to manage, streamline and speed the moving and loading of data in databases, data warehouses and business intelligence applications. This challenge is further complicated by the growing need for speed and the exponential growth of data volumes - volumes that often won't fit into the processing windows available. Join data warehousing expert Bill Inmon to explore this subject in greater detail and to identify solutions for improving performance in your real-time enterprise.
Among the topics discussed are:
- The importance in reducing elapsed time for moving and loading data.
- How to enable the real-time enterprise.
- Data granularity requirements for the data warehouse.
- The ability to improve performance in data management and movement while handling higher volumes of data.
Featured Speakers:
Bill Inmon
Founder
Inmon Data Systems
Leon Surgeon
Product Marketing Manager, Data Management Products
Syncsort Inc.
- The various types of operational risk
- Examples of operational business intelligence
- Requirements for monitoring operational risk
- The importance of reducing latencies from event to action
- Four steps to shorten the decision cycle
- The role of data warehousing and business intelligence
- Where to begin and the technology required
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Claudia Imhoff
President and Founder
Intelligent Solutions
Leon Surgeon
Product Marketing Manager, Data Management Products
Syncsort Inc.
Simon Robinson, sector head, Storage and Systems, from The 451 Group
discusses remote office backup trends, solutions, and best practices on how to simplify and centralize remote office backup and recovery operations.
You will also hear how a DoD agency leveraged
NetApp
and
Syncsort
remote office solutions and simplified centralization of remote backups for disaster recovery of field servers for the camp and helped:
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Protect remotely without tape
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Enable efficient and flexible remote replication over existing WAN
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Dramatically simplify backup through automated operation and centralized control
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Improve reliability with greater control and visibility of backup policies
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Achieve near instant recoveries, full volume images, end-user restores, and failover-to-backup capabilities
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Offer disk-based cold metal server recovery
Learn how joint solutions from
NetApp
and
Syncsort
can help you simplify and centralize remote office backup and recovery operations over your existing WAN while providing a lower cost, higher value alternative to tape for data protection.
Featured Speakers:
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Simon Robinson, sector head, Storage and Systems,
The 451 Group
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Sarah O'Donnell, product marketing and research manager, Backup Express,
Syncsort
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Jeremy Merrill, product engineer,
Network Appliance
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Ravi Thota, product marketing director,
Network Appliance
You are invited to view an exclusive on-demand Webcast discussing:
- Disk-to-disk disaster recovery
- Server and site-level recovery
- Protecting remote sites without tape
View this on-demand Webcast highlighting best practices, production customer case studies, and technical tips that can save money and reduce risk. Key discussion topics include:
- Instant availability for applications (Exchange/SQL)
- Innovative disk-to-disk bare metal recovery
- Block-level incremental forever
- Frequent, non-disruptive point-in-time Snapshot copies
- NetApp SnapVault and SnapMirror®
Syncsort and NetApp customers who store their Windows® data on any platform can perform live SnapVault backups of Microsoft® SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange, allowing them to back up more often and reduce risk. Mutual customers can also instantly fail over to usable instances, enabling zero downtime for the applications, and rebuild servers in minutes with bare metal recovery.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Chris Cummings
Senior Director, Data Management Alliances and Solutions
Network Appliance
Sarah O'Donnell
Product Marketing and Research Manager
Syncsort
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from technical experts about how Backup Express integrates with NetApp SnapVault and Snapshot technology to seamlessly deliver fast, efficient, image-based, disk-based backup, restores, and disaster recovery, giving users high availability for both applications and servers.
The proliferation of data marts is one of the biggest challenges
facing BI professionals today. Until BI teams can gain control
over these shadow IT systems, their efforts to deliver a
single version of truth via an enterprise data warehouse
will prove fruitless. This session will describe the problem
facing BI professionals and offer a variety of tactical approaches
for consolidating data marts and spreadmarts and preventing
their proliferation. Topics include: data mart consolidation trends, six approaches for consolidating data marts, the five "Cs" for controlling the proliferation of spreadmarts, and how to integrate Excel into a BI environment without undermining data consistency.
Jason Williams, Product Manager, Novell and Sarah O’Donnell, Marketing Manager at Syncsort.
Are
you considering migrating to Linux
and/or Open Enterprise Server? Find out the benefits you'll get and
how to maximize your DR opportunities
in this joint Syncsort-Novell Webinar
featuring Open Enterprise Server product manager Jason Williams. If
you run clustering, use applications
such as GroupWise and eDirectory
or have remote sites you need to know what to consider to ensure a
safe and secure migration. You need
to be assured that you can live up
to your service level agreements (SLAs) both during and after the
migration. You need to be especially
certain that your disaster recovery/business
continuity plan is not a weak point -- and if you use the wrong product,
you will be vulnerable.
However Syncsort Backup Express has
top support for both Open Enterprise Server - NetWare and Open Enterprise
Server - Linux environments.
Michael Gonzales, Principal, Hands-on BI, LLC.
Tackling a large Business Intelligence (BI) project? Make sure it's a success by avoiding many common pitfalls -- learn how to use Rule-based Audits and Proof-of Concepts to mitigate risk in your BI project. In this Webinar sponsored by Syncsort, Risk Mitigation Expert Mike Gonzales details how to insure the success of your Business Intelligence project, including the use of Syncsort's DMExpress as a valuable tool in the Proof-of-Concept. You'll find out how to reduce ambiguity, gain knowledge and insight into your goals, validate the requirements and expose potential project risks ahead of time. See how the core roles of stake holders, subject matter experts and Audit or P-O-C team members all come into play for project buy-in.
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