Synopsis: As every organisations starts to immerse itself in the world of e-business and Internet based commerce, information is becoming the competitive advantage and data is becoming a highly prized business asset. Increasing reliance on this data has made continuous and ubiquitous access to information critical for the organisation. Moreover this has led to proliferation on complex storage systems and need for personnel and skills to manage this data.
Fundamentally there are two types of pressures, corporations are facing today how efficiently can I manage my information resources and how disruption proof they are. Effectively Protecting, Storing and Managing information growth has become a critical goal for every organisation in this changing business environments.

Synopsis: As a result of technological changes and evolution of user needs, SAN and NAS are starting to merge. Within three years it will be difficult to distinguish between SAN and NAS. This is somewhat analogous to what we have seen in the Networking industry. Some years ago, routers and switches were distinct products, even sold by different companies. Today, with layer 4 and 7 switches, the two technologies have merged.
This is a healthy development. because in a situation of continuing evolution of technology and uncertainty regarding future trends, users would like to have flexibility to use the same storage system interchangeably either in NAS or in SAN mode, depending upon which approach is best in a given situation. They may even use it for access in both modes at the same time and thus avoid the need to go in for different storage systems for different needs.
This blurring of NAS and SAN is in the interests of the user, since this will speed up the adoption of Networked Storage as opposed to Direct Attached Storage, and so allow more users to realize the benefits of Networked Storage.

Synopsis: A holy war, of sorts, has been raging between Unified Storage and SAN vendors, with both sides incessantly trumpeting victory. The customer however has confused by the one-sidedness of each camps' claims, and rightly so! The answer is not an "either or" proposition. The real issue is 'how best to do both Unified Storage and SAN'. And the answer to the holy war is a quest for a consolidated storage solution.
Automated Networked Storage provides value to the business and the IT organization through cost reductions, the protection of greater business continuity, more business flexibility, and unmatched manageability.

Synopsis: Reliable storage solutions are increasingly becoming a 'must have' with organizations and the Indian storage market is set to grow exponentially. It is interesting times in the data storage industry. Globally, there is storage storm growing at 80-100 percent a year. Organizations need to build storage infrastructure that can manage and support this massive storage growth. We will talk about how this infrastructure has changed and what storage management solutions are required to make your business highly reliable and available. Also will discuss some of the trends and few 'must haves' in storage industry to protect your mission-critical information with an eye on building disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) solutions.

Synopsis: We live in a business environment where data & information is the lifeblood of a business. Today, business growth equates to information growth which equates to storage growth. Management's expect the CIO's / CTO's to help the business "make more money" , "save more money" by increasing business efficiency and deliver timely information to stay ahead of the competition. And they must do all this with shrinking or at best flat IT budgets. It is clear that as CIO's / CTO's you need to change the way you approach the storage management challenge in your organisations if you are to respond positively and meet management expectations. The Data Life Cycle Model describes how you can be smarter in defining your storage requirements and how you can lower your overall costs of storage.

Synopsis: In this current storage scenario & proliferation of various Technologies and platforms interconnected with various storage devices and hardware, applications & databases, order of the day is to manage one & all seamlessly & integrate & bring value at the same time.
To manage this chaos we at CA have merged technology that we specialize & various applications by defining how storage software management should be, taking in to consideration heterogeneous storage management & other storage dynamics. What exactly decision makers of storage in today’s context & tomorrow future outlook should expect.

Synopsis: In recent years, Network Attached Storage (Unified Storage) has been gaining popularity among the corporate and SMB community. Key features like ease of manageability and interoperability in a heterogeneous environment and rising trend in networking storage are reasons for its growth. This session will take a step further and share on the versatility of Unified Storage and how it help users in building various applications cost effectively.

Synopsis: In today's world, Extracting full value from existing storage while implementing new technologies and not compromising on it's integrals to strategically position your company with a safe and profitable future is the real challenge. To achieve that, we need to identify the prevailing issues facing the storage sector, which includes forces driving the chaotic and unprecedented growth of storage. One way of doing so is to assess the value of the various tools used to manage storage and meeting the challenge of the current uncoordinated approaches employed to manage this growth. We also need to foresee Enterprise Storage Automation as the new vision for successful storage management to overcome the above challenges. Efficient and timely Enterprise storage management skills can prevent unforeseen problems looking towards the future.

Synopsis: Controlling Exploding storage costs by linking storage needs to business requirements

Synopsis: This session will identify the challenges faced by storage sector like forces driving the chaotic abd unprecedented growth of storage, assessing the value of the various tools used to mange storage and meeting the challenge of the current uncoordinated approached employed to manage this growth. Solve the enterprise storage management problem via the decoupling of storage usage from storage execution and Heralding Enterprise Storage Automation as the new vision for successful storage management and the future prospects.

Synopsis: The problem of Increasing complexity of Storage Technology and Exponential data growth are very well addressed by Storage Software. In this talk functionalities, features and benefits of certain storage softwares will be presented with examples

Synopsis: Just as your business requirements drive your choice of Storage Area Network (SAN) components, so should they drive your SAN design. Availability, scalability, and performance are the key requirements to think about with regard to SAN design.
There are a variety of ways you can arrange and connect your SAN components, however, experience has shown that thinking strategically with an eye on the future, yet starting simple, yields greatest success. Brocade consultant will walk you through the best practices of SAN design.

Synopsis: Enhanced Backup Solutions are the logical next stage in data protection. Now you can take advantage of the inherent speed of disk-based storage plus the strengths of the tape library, which include lower cost and archival stability. The result is backup and archiving completed in much less time, without loss in confidence in data, and zero changes in hardware, software and operational procedures.

Synopsis: Virtualisation technology enables storage to pooled and logically allocated for increased capacity utilization and application availability. But the value of virtualisation to a business goes far beyond increasing the efficiency of an environment. Virtualisation is the foundation for delivering higher value storage services for enabling availability and protection of data.
Virtualisation…. So much of what we hear today regarding virtualisation is about the technology, the architecture. It sounds complex, even though it's supposed to make life easier. So, let's not focus on how it's implemented, but rather what if offers businesses.

Synopsis: The evolution of storage technologies has followed a pattern similar to the evolution of the computing architecture. It has slowly but surely moved from monolithic direct attached systems to a network centric architecture. Unfortunately the storage industry has been plagued by the lack of standards and the management nightmare resulting from it. The conundrum has more to do with the lack of a collective industry direction rather than a technological problem. The storage industry offers the users a host of choices, in terms of technologies like SAN, Unified Storage, iSCSI & DAFS, however it in turn also adds a lot of confusion to the problem. There is no unique or tailor made answer to the diverse problems faced by different customers in different application environments. More often than not customers find out the right (read working) solution the hard way after many iterations and much expense. Under such conditions the customers need to keep in mind certain criteria while benchmarking a storage infrastructure for their organisation. The key work here is flexibility. The backend storage infrastructure must offer the users the flexibility to incorporate present & future protocols in a simple way. Most customers do not know which is the right technology for their environment and whether it would suffice in the near future. Under the circumstances the best approach is to build a flexible storage infrastructure which would safeguard the investment for the near future.

Synopsis: In these times when the management is focussed to make every dollar count, the challenge for all projects is to justify its investment down to the last dime. How can an intagible concept like security be dollarized to get the mindshare and funding? Learn how Information Security can be positioned as a performance enhancer rather than a cost centre.

Synopsis: Increasing threats to IT infrastructure of companies and providers of such infrastructure to companies is threatening the very existence of organizations. The importance of providing Security to internal resources as well as ensuring availability is seen as a critical component for business survival.
The presentation will take an overview of the changes driving corporates to heed to Security Threats and how organizations can work to ensure that their IT infrastructure is in good health. It would focus on how an organization should go about addressing Security within its boundaries and ensure Security is given adequate importance.

Synopsis: IT Security provides the management processes, technology and assurance to allow business management to ensure business transactions can be trusted; ensure IT services are usable and can appropriately resist and recover from failures due to error, deliberate attacks or disaster and ensure critical confidential information is withheld from those who should not have access to it.

Synopsis: In today's diverse environment, IT professionals face new complexities and challenges in content and security management. While new devices and protocols present unprecedented capabilities, such technologies also present newer security risks. Each new device presents a new access point for viruses, and each new protocol contains security vulnerability's that are to be identified.
Existing security technologies are and the current antivirus paradigm is no match for these new types of virus attacks.
Enter Enterprise Protection Strategy - Manage explosive costs of virus attacks, contain outbreak and improve visibility of an attack.

Synopsis: Over 40 percent of all companies experiencing some type of information-related disaster never re-open. Critical applications such as ERP, SCM, CRM, and e-mail make protecting your information with an integrated business continuity solution more important than ever before. Protect your business with realtime remote data mirroring - and deliver new capabilities that reduce IT costs!
Helping you achieve your most aggressive business goals through intelligent information protection, sharing and management, SRDF is software designed to provide complete business continuance capabilities.

Synopsis: The presentation will cover an over of the important principles concerning computer and information system security which are important to understand when planning and implementing computer security frameworks.It will also focus on the solutions provided by Check Point software technologies Ltd to protect your digital assets.