Sponsor: Symantec Corporation
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Dave Russell, Sean Derrington
Type: Video (25 minutes)
Server virtualization allows you to rethink the ways in which you deploy applications to the business. And while you may have already adopted server virtualization, can you truly say that you’ve maximized the business benefits server virtualization can deliver?
So how do you maximize the benefits? In this program, Dave Russell Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Sean Derrington, Director of Storage Management and High Availability, at Symantec Corporation, look at the challenges and benefits of server virtualization, and more importantly, reveal the best practices for data protection, disaster recovery and storage management in virtual server environments.
These experts will address:
- What’s changed with server virtualization? How is it different?
- How do profitable companies view data protection in regards to server virtual environments?
- How is high availability and disaster recovery impacted by server virtualization?
- How should your IT organization approach virtualization?
- What are some of the implications of virtualization on data protection strategies?
- How can storage resources be maximized in virtual environments?
Get the answers to these questions, plus learn about expert recommended solutions that...
- Provide detailed application state monitoring to minimize unplanned downtime, and maximize application availability in planned downtime.
- Allow you to globally monitor, report, and manage your clusters across ESX servers, Linux servers, Windows servers in a physical environment, and UNIX servers in the physical and virtual environment, through a single web-based console.
- Allow you to be confident in your ability to failover and fail back applications when necessary.
- Provide visibility from a storage to an application perspective so that you can ensure that your storage is being utilized appropriately and that resources are being maximized.
So watch this new program and learn how virtualization can help your IT organization add value to your business while reducing costs.
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About Sean Derrington, Director, Storage Management & High Availability
Sean Derrington is director of storage management and high availability at Symantec Corporation and is responsible for Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas CommandCentral Storage, and other storage and server management products.
Derrington joined Symantec through the company's merger with Veritas software. Prior to joining Veritas, Sean was senior program director of META Group's Server Infrastructure Strategies. During his eight years at META Group, he was the lead consultant and analyst covering the storage management market.
Derrington earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Material Science and Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Public Policy, both from Carnegie Mellon University.
About Dave Russell, Research VP, Gartner
Dave Russell is a vice president at Gartner Research. His research specialty is storage management software with a focus on data recovery, including data deduplication, virtual tape libraries (VTL), continuous data protection (CDP) and storage resource management (SRM). He also covers information life cycle management (ILM). In addition, Mr. Russell covers both distributed and mainframe storage management software.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Russell spent five years as a developer/programmer for mainframe data recovery (DFSMSdss); five years as a development manager for an open systems data recovery product (TSM); three years as the manager of Tivoli Storage's Architecture department for the IBM Tivoli Portfolio (data recovery, SRM, SAN management); and two years as a technical strategist for the IBM TotalStorage Open Software portfolio. For the last few years, he has traveled the world meeting with customers and business partners, and speaking at storage conferences and to the press. He was responsible for defining and driving the technical strategy for the data recovery, SRM and SAN management offerings at IBM.
