SCITDA 2010 Fall Conference

The South Carolina Information Technology Director’s Association Fall Conference:

Team IA's Presentation

It's All About Change - Team IA is Forging New Frontiers

SECURE National Technology Conference

Hot Topics/Cool Trends: Strategies for applying the latest technology to benefit your organization.

Organized by SECURE User Group

The SECURE Technology Conference was held in Columbia, SC from August 10th to August 13th.  This conference provided an opportunity for technology leaders to review current trends and identify successful and innovative best practices.  SECURE designed the conference to collaborate with regional industries and showcase pioneering vendor products and technology.

Tuesday's Presentations

Storage 101: Take control of the heat (Presented by EMC)

Learn how to build an efficient information infrastructure that lets you store, protect, optimize, and leverage your information—from a single e-mail to your production databases. By managing more data, more efficiently, you'll keep your information available and secure—and be ready for growth.

· EMC World Unisphere Simplicity Video (8 minutes)

· Storage Efficiency Video (8 minutes)

· Self Service for VMWare Administrators Video (9 minutes)

Data and Infrastructure Assessments/TCO and ROI Analysis: Temperature Check (Presented by EMC)

Discover what assessments are available, what is required to run them, how they can benefit your organization, and how you can use them to justify investments in new technology.

Cloud Computing, the VMware, Cisco, EMC initiative: Go beyond the coolness factor (Presented by EMC)

VMware/Cisco/EMC (VCE) Initiative and other recent technology announcements.

Thursday's Presentations

eDiscovery/Compliance: Avoid a “trial by fire” (Presented by EMC)

Exploding volumes of electronically stored information (ESI), the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and increasing regulatory scrutiny make this a critical time for organizations to re-evaluate their eDiscovery practices.

Data Protection Solutions: Cool off with easier compliance (Presented by EMC)

· Backup and Recovery:  Policies and procedures for managing data retention and testing backups.

· Business Continuity: Enable secure offsite replication of your data.

BREAKOUT TRAINING SESSION: Too Cool for School.  Advanced VMware Administration Training (Presented by Team IA)

This hands-on training session will include Site Recovery Manager, Dynamic Resource Scheduler, and Fault Tolerance.

· Environment Overview

· vSphere 4.1 Cheat Sheet