Sponsor: EMC
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: Dave Russell, BJ Jenkins, Lucas Wagenaar
Type: Video (31 minutes)
Backup and Recovery is undergoing perhaps the most significant evolution it has seen to date. Data deluge, budget constraints and a shift to virtual environments is accelerating the need to transform the way we backup and restore data. Now more than ever, companies are looking to next-generation backup solutions to not only address today's most pressing problems such as shrinking backup windows and reliable recovery but also provide a scalable foundation for the future.
For help, companies are increasingly turning to disk-based backup solutions that provide seamless integration between software and storage, leverage the power of data deduplication and offer network-efficient replication. But no two companies are exactly alike in their environments and challenges, so how do you know what the right approach or solution is for you?
This program is intended to help you answer this question and begin to scope a plan that will meet your business objectives. Gartner's Dave Russell will talk about the key market trends shaping today's backup and recovery landscape; William "BJ" Jenkins, president, EMC Backup Recovery Systems, will take a closer look at customer challenges and explain where EMC is headed in backup and Lucas Wagenaar, vice president of IT for Sysco Corp., will speak to the importance of backup transformation and how Sysco benefited from the move to next-generation backup and recovery solutions.
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Dave Russell, Research VP, Gartner
Dave Russell's research focus is on storage, with an emphasis on backup/recovery (including data deduplication, virtual tape libraries [VTLs] and continuous data protection [CDP]), replication and storage management. Mr. Russell covers both distributed and mainframe storage solutions. In addition, he covers the overall storage strategies and portfolios of many of the industry's top providers.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Russell spent 15 years at IBM in storage product development as a software engineer in mainframe storage and as a manager of product development, architecture and strategy teams for distributed systems storage solutions.
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William D. Jenkins, President, Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) Division, EMC Corporation
William "BJ" Jenkins is a 13-year EMC veteran and currently the President of EMC's Backup Recovery Systems division, which is focused on the development and delivery of next-generation disk-based backup, recovery and archive solutions.
With more than 15 years of IT experience, Mr. Jenkins plans to leverage his diverse and deep expertise across EMC and the information technology industry to move forward EMC's fast-growing BRS business. Central to this mission is the continued pursuit of innovation and helping EMC and its partners bring to market backup and recovery solutions that address customers' top priorities as the rapid growth of information and "big data" accelerate and organizations shift to cloud computing architectures.
Mr. Jenkins joined EMC in 1998 and has held a wide range of EMC senior leadership roles, including Senior Vice President of Global Marketing; Vice President of Telecom, Media and Entertainment and Outsourcing Sales; Vice President of Global Field Marketing and Director of Operations Global Channels. He most recently served as Chief of Staff for EMC's BRS Division, where he led the highly successful post-merger integration of Data Domain as the foundation for the newly formed division. Since its formation, the BRS Division has grown at a very rapid pace, becoming the Fortune 1000's top choice for next-generation data protection systems.
Prior to joining EMC, Mr. Jenkins was President and CEO of Snow River Products, a manufacturing company in Brattleboro, Vermont, and a Senior Consultant at Accenture. Jenkins is a graduate of the University of Illinois and received his MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Lucas Wagenaar, IT Department, Vice President of Information Technology, Sysco
Lucas Wagenaar is a "flying ace" in the world of IT leadership. He navigates the challenging and ever-changing world of technology with ease, piloting innovation to benefit the bottom line. As a strategist, he consistently provides new and groundbreaking ideas and processes that drive operational performance and business relevance. As an expert in system design and process reengineering, he delivers sophisticated applications that are embraced by the system users and company leadership. He applies a straight-forward approach to dissecting a problem into smaller and easier to understand components and then solves these components, thereby solving the complex issue as a whole.
As Vice President of Application Development and Infrastructure Support, he leads, plans, designs, monitors and manages the technical infrastructure functions and development of key applications across the enterprise. These initiatives include rapid integration of acquisitions with widely different platforms. In addition, he has implemented state-of-the-art technical infrastructures to support Sysco's current and future business operations, paving the way for company growth across the continent and beyond the U.S. borders.
Previously, as VP IT for Eagle Global Logistics he established a homogenous "follow the sun" global support organization , improving service levels and reducing the cost of support. Earlier he held IT leadership roles with several energy companies in the U.S. , Canada, and Europe. He began his career a Systems Engineer with Nixdorf, a computer hardware manufacturer.
Lucas holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the HU of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He has a Certificate in Business Programming from The Southern Institute of Technology in Alberta, Canada and other industry designations including Novell CNE, Microsoft MCSE, and Cisco CCNA. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Lucas is a licensed commercial pilot.
