How can the cloud help organisations make their DR processes better? Peter will cover the potential economic advantages that cloud computing can provide, and how this compares to the economics of DR. He will also go through the "recovery as a service" model, and how this can replace or work alongside traditional DR strategies.

The SNIA has published the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Cloud Storage standard for implementation by cloud storage vendors as well as Public and Private clouds. This workshop will overview the features of the new standard and explain how interoperability between clouds is achieved.* Now that the standard is available, what should you be requiring from your cloud vendors ?* How can you expect this standard to roll out in implementations?This workshop will be interactive and include a demonstration of CDMI in practice. There will be opportunities to discuss specific implementations and who has plans for CDMI roll out.

Join in this exploration of the various facets of Cloud Storage and learn about the potential of the Cloud evolution. The discussion will provide an overview of the Cloud Storage landscape and the major use cases and requirements. Hear how Cloud Storage can strategically anticipate today’s IT needs and prepare for tomorrow’s automated IT.

This session examines how next-generation file storage architectures will see a convergence of server and storage virtualisation in a way that will use technologies available today to integrate primary storage, file archive, and the cloud.

There has been a lot of noise in the marketing about Cloud Computing. Whether it is a private or public cloud the right architecture is vital to making it a reality. This session will look at the role of storage in building an architecture to deliver cloud based services.

Enterprises need business continuity for critical networked applications, but face an explosion of demand for less critical applications. There are strong cost management pressures on IT which make bandwidth upgrades difficult/unaffordable. Discover how to combine carrier-class quality & availability (MPLS) with high-bandwidth, low-cost Internet (VPN) - a hybrid networking strategy.

Dell’s Efficient Datacenter provides open, capable, and affordable solutions that maintain your ability to choose the best new technology and protect your existing investments. This session will help you apply technology to efficiently manage and operate your data centre, and in the process free up 50% of your IT budget.

IBM is focusing attention on public, private and hybrid cloud storage. What is it, what can it be used for (or not), and what benefits accrue for the user from implementing IBM cloud storage technology.

"Most network managers are aware that 80% of network outages are caused by change. What they don't know is perhaps even more simple :- When a change is made, was it in keeping with best practices?- Did the change introduce a gremlin that will cause an outage in a few days' time ?- Regardless of whether it was a 'good quality' change or not, what was the impact - did it actually make things better, or worse?"

An overview of the Red Hat Cloud Vision followed by a detailed explanation of the various key components, technologies and offerings including topics such as deltacloud, Cloud Engine, Red Hat Cloud Foundations and Red Hat Platform as a Service (PaaS).

The amount of data organisations use is growing at the fastest rate in history and Cloud computing will accelerate this trend. Whether you need a few hundred terabytes or multi-Petabyte storage architectures, this session focuses on the critical design, implementation, scalability and management strategies to help you deliver cloud storage.

Traditional storage and file sharing infrastructures cannot normally scale to the tens of Petabytes and tens of thousands of connected users that globally distributed enterprise wide cloud deployments require.Quantum shows how using their StorNext 4.0 data management solution, this can be achieved using common and open hardware platforms.

Virtualisation is a critical component within today’s IT infrastructure. This presentation will illustrate how, by implementing Overland’s SnapServer SAN S2000, users will never need to learn an additional storage management tool, provisioning is easy and important data protection features like mirroring and replication are simple to implement and manage.

As technology continues to evolve, some data centre challenges become more complex even while new opportunities emerge. Learn how Hitachi Data Systems is taking storage to the 3rd dimension helping turn data centres into information centres.

This session examines the second wave of the virtualisation tsunami to hit the shores of the data centre: that of network and application infrastructure. It looks at the architectural implications of Application Delivery Controller virtualisation in the data centre with a view to maintaining appropriate levels of reliability and scalability.

This session will look at some of the challenges facing organisations in delivering the storage infrastructure for new applications and projects against a backdrop of limited resources and budget constraints. It will show how, with the right approach, storage efficiency can be dramatically improved.

Learn how VA Technologies utilize Nexenta and ZFS to create hybrid storage appliances combining SSD and Hard Drive technology to dramatically improve performance in your virtual environment whilst maintaining effect control of storage to stop Virtual Machine sprawl.

Learn how VA Technologies utilize Nexenta and ZFS to create hybrid storage appliances combining SSD and Hard Drive technology to dramatically improve performance in your virtual environment whilst maintaining effect control of storage to stop Virtual Machine sprawl.

Building next generation datacenters through IO virtiualisation.

Mimecast delivers Software-as-a-Service-based enterprise email management for archiving, discovery, continuity, security and policy enforcement. Every day Mimecast takes care of millions of emails and documents for more than 3000 customers worldwide, and 50% of the top 100 UK law firms

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MTI is a trusted expert in the provision of information infrastructure solutions to more than 1200 customers across EMEA, successfully supporting 2000+ installations. From global enterprise companies through to local specialist businesses, MTI delivers solutions and services across all Continents from it’s European base. MTI diagnose, design and delivers full data center projects working with companies like EMC, VMware and Cisco.

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deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Our dedication to the principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today. Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data...

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SCC is Europe’s largest independent technology solutions provider around the infrastructure, The Group has regional operations in seven different countries, employs over 7,000 professional staff and has delivered sustained, profitable growth for some 35 years, with annual turnover exceeding £2.5 billion. Long term partnerships with the world’s leading solutions providers combine with SCC’s services capabilities to create a rapid return on an investment in IT. It has an enviable track recor...

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Since 1988, VSPL, a VAR and Systems Integrator based in Marlow, has helped many of the UK's most demanding government, scientific and corporate organisations solve their IT requirements. During that time, we have worked on some really exciting projects and have solved often complex IT problems with innovative solutions.

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Premier League Football club Bolton Wanderers migrated its email management from individual point solutions to a unified, web-based email system from Mimecast. The move was prompted by a desire to reduce the time involved in managing email quarantines, provide a continuous always-on, secure email service, and archive all email communications in a cost-effective manner.

BoltonWanderers.pdf 322.22 kB

“We carried out an extensive evaluation of all the main storage vendors and even beyond that,”
says Paul Wooler (British Library Technical Analyst). “Both the DOM Programme and the Microsoft Digitisation Project require that we keep more than one copy of the data, replicated between our sites at Boston Spa in Yorkshire, St Pancras in London, and a third site at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.”

The British Library and S3, entered into detailed discussions to establish the library’s
precise needs and budget. As a result, the library has now standardised on Nexsan
SATABeasts as its storage system of choice, with twelve currently in action, which includes
six for the Microsoft digitisation and four for the DOM System.

British Library.pdf 309.62 kB

Challenge: Inefficient and time-consuming backup software was jeopardising data integrity for the company and its clients

Solution: Hitachi Consulting chose the laptop backup service from Iron Mountain, and flexible contract terms were offered to manage the transition

Value: Productivity improvements pay for the Iron Mountain solution, while data loss risk is mitigated and compliance is assured

IM Hitachi Consulting V4 Orange.pdf 413.74 kB

Lloyds TSB Products and Markets found itself not just moving to its new HQ at 10 Gresham
Street in the City, but also with a pressing need to provide an off-site data back-up solution in
its out-of-town DR site.

The task? To help them re-design and integrate their storage and back-up systems.

A cumbersome, costly and risk-prone procedure was crying out for a solution when S3’s assessment of the situation was invited. In close discussion with Colin Everett, Head of IT Strategy and Architecture at Lloyds TSB Products & Markets, it became clear that the primary drivers for the project were manageability and scalability though, as with any major project, cost effectiveness remained a factor.

“Thanks to the team at S3, we have the confidence that our new flagship building at 10 Gresham Street and our state-of-the-art trading floor are complemented by the perfect
technological solution. It gives us precisely what Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets needed:
cutting-edge technology for our back-up and contingency operations.

lloyds.pdf 1.45 MB

Challenge: Rapid email expansion had seen a fivefold increase in storage file sizes with consequent instability and backup problems

Solution: Iron Mountain NearPoint with Disaster Recovery, PST Archiving and 'Call Home' management options

Value: Stable and secure Exchange environment running on less hardware, offering full backup with reduced risk and assured compliance

IM Monarch V3 Orange.pdf 225.55 kB

"We took an in-depth look at the solution and were delighted with Mimecast’s comprehensive disaster recovery ability, which meant we could be confident that our email would never go down – even if our own Exchange server failed. And when Mimecast said they could deliver a service that included security, DR, continuity and archiving at a competitive price point to what we were already paying for virus and spam protection alone it was practically a done deal" Jayson Dudley, Head of UK IT, Mazars

Mazars.pdf 361.72 kB

“Having run a cost analysis, the icing on the cake is that Mimecast has drastically reduced our disaster recovery and business continuity costs. Should we have a short to medium term failure of our Exchange infrastructure, we can rely on Mimecast’s business continuity service.” Jim Greenfield, IT Director, PKF (UK) LLP

PKF.pdf 386.45 kB

“Selecting Mimecast means our email is in the hands of experts, and is managed more effectively than dealing with email filtering in-house.” Martyn Croft, Head of Corporate Systems for Salvation Army UK Territory

SalvationArmy.pdf 671.63 kB

This MTI Case Study explaines the success that MTI had at Cobweb with providing them with a scalable Enterprise Public Cloud Infrastructure based on a Vblock 1 design from MTI and the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Coalition.

CobwebVblock19072010v2.pdf 201.06 kB

Practical cost saving benefits of cloud-based email management

Thinking about cutting costs by switching to email archiving and management in the cloud, but not sure how it all adds up? Understand the different ways Mimecast saves you time and money and put figures on what your own cost savings will be.

Can using Software-as-a-Service be cheaper than running the equivalent software in-house? Yes, especially when one service can replace multiple software tools for you. But will it actually be cheaper for your business and how can you work out the savings? Check out how Mimecast could bring down your email management bills, step by step.

10+ways+to+reduce+email+costs.pdf 1.06 MB

According to industry analysts, email volume in organizations is growing by more than 30% annually, and the average user receives 7MB of data per day via email. As a result of this growth, the handling of email has become a critical business, IT and regulatory issue – driving
the need for email archiving solutions. Most organizations looking for an email archiving solution are motivated by four reasons: mailbox/server management, compliance/records retention, eDiscovery/litigation support, and knowledge management/IP protection. In addition to these challenges, IT departments want to know how to control costs of the email environment, while keeping important data accessible for business, legal and regulatory users.

The Growing Email Archiving Dilemma.pdf 1.03 MB

Today’s litigious and regulatory environments mean organizations are obligated to electronically store information to support discovery and disclosure requests. Organizations that archive email in a ‘fractured’ environment risk losing control and may struggle to produce evidential-quality email evidence.

Email as Evidence.pdf 565.83 kB

Companies have been struggling for years with the dilemma of how to manage their vast information stores so that the right information is available to run the business and information that no longer has value is discarded. This paper addresses typical Information Governance challenges and discusses a framework for addressing these challenges and some of the resulting benfits.

WP_Retention&preservation_FINAL_UK.PDF 803.13 kB

Few businesses could function without email, and email provides a critical coordination tool during an outage, yet due to the cost and complexity of providing true email continuity many businesses do not have business continuity plans that protect email adequately. Continuity and archiving services may prove more cost effective for email than highavailability clustering, especially when considered in the light of continued governance, risk mitigation and compliance.

Email as part of your Continuity Strategy.pdf 714.94 kB

You can’t aff ord to ignore email archiving, security, internal policy or regulatory requirements,
but can you aff ord to keep paying for it as multi ple systems on top of your email system? When you add up the full price tag for your email environment, from server to soft ware to risk management and staff costs, it becomes clear why running everything in-house can mean you spend far more of your budget on maintenance than innovati on.

Total Cost of Email.pdf 2.69 MB

The regulatory environment means that monitoring what information leaves your organization is as vital as protecting it from external attacks. Email is one of the most likely routes by which data may leak, maliciously or more often accidentally. A successful Data Leak Prevention system will address the issue of email by policy, in a way that integrates with the systems your business has in place to address governance, risk and compliance rather than through a series of standalone tools.

Data Leak Prevention.pdf 1.16 MB

In September 2009, Mimecast commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying its Unified Email Management solution. Mimecast’s solution is a software-as-a-service enterprise email management solution that complements the client’s existing on-premise email server. The Mimecast cloud service provides a comprehensive solution that archives all email, ensures continuity of email service, improves the eDiscovery process, and allows the application of consistent security and policy settings.

This study illustrates the financial impact of using the Mimecast service in a $1 billion business services firm with 5,000 users that operates a large headquarters and two branch offices overseas.

Forrester+TEI+of+Mimecast's+Unified+Email+Management+solution.pdf 239.16 kB

You can’t treat security as a set of isolated point systems. That’s true of your business information in general and of your email architecture specifically. Protecting information is one side of the coin; making it available and accessible is the other and if you do both right you can improve productivity as well as avoid risk. The cloud isn’t just the most effective place to secure email, before any threats or intruders ever reach your network; it’s also the most efficient. Cloud-based email services can offer full protection with the promise of availability and reliability too.

Security+as+a+Service.pdf 855.10 kB

Codestone are a leading provider of IT solutions. Established in 1997 and with UK coverage via 3 offices in Poole, London and Manchester, we provide turnkey solutions based on leading technologies. We design, implement and support a wide range of vendor products in the virtualisation space including Citrix, VMware, EMC and Microsoft. Rather than being a vendor led organisation Codestone’s autonomy means the right solution is proposed from the beginning depending on the clients requirement. We provide impartial advice to ensure that our solutions are perfectly tailored to your requirements and your budget. Codestone have been accredited to deliver virtualisation solutions for over five years, and have implemented virtualisation technology at over 150 customer sites including backing up to the Codestone Cloud.

Is your data always safe and available? Iron Mountain Digital lets you eliminate the risk of data loss on desktops and laptops with our simple, automatic, secure and reliable online backup solution.

The need is clear: you want to protect sensitive information stored on PCs, Macs and laptops, especially those far outside the data centre. You want to eliminate frantic firefighting, lost data and painful recoveries that divert IT resources—so that you can spend time on your business instead of your backup concerns.

Our Connected Backup solution can lighten your data protection burden and provide the rapid recovery and uncompromised security your business needs.

Datasheet-Connected-PC-uk_ed1.pdf 175.50 kB

Converged Infrastructure:
A converged infrastructure enables an organisation to do more with fewer resources. Converged Infrastructure solutions drive business agility, innovation and performance improvements, while reducing risk, complexity and cost.
IT proliferation has stretched many businesses to breaking point, and business agility is severely constrained. Converged infrastructure, a holistic solution that enables all end user sub systems to work in tandem on a single IP network, offers new and more effective ways of working which address the following typical challenges:

• Escalating IT management and administration costs
• A desire to move mission-critical environments to standards-based infrastructure
• Limited datacenter space; need to improve server consolidation, virtualisation, and utilisation
• Risk associated with older legacy systems
• A need to grow and scale capacity in line with shrinking IT budgets
• Break free of proprietary solutions to achieve true inter-operability through the adoption of open industry standards
• An approach to unifying multiple communications methods: voice, e-mail, messaging, video etc
• Security threats

A highly secure, immutable archive of all email, typically with ten year retention period and unlimited volumes. With near-instant search capabilities and eDiscovery tools sets. Also offering a full audit trail for complete end to end management and compliance. All at a fixed fee/user/annum - irrespective of the size of data store.

Mimecast offers the ability to continue working normally should primary email servers fail, guaranteeing 100% email uptime regardless of planned/unplanned downtime of email server. Seamless and immediate failover (RTO) with no loss of data (RPO). No high availability needed, so neither offsite back-up or dual application deployments are required. And your reputation and risks associated with downtime are no longer a concern.

Planned for release by end of July, Mimecast will eliminate downtime for BlackBerry users by providing an email continuity service which covers outages of the Exchange server, the BES server and even delivers email continuity during RIM NOC failure.

Mimecast offers highly customisable, real-time policy application for all elements of the service - including email disclaimer and branding management as well as a wide range of additional features such as email routing options.

Industry leading anti-spam and anti-malware SLAs, combined with advanced Data Leak Prevention and encryption capabilities. Mimecast protects against phishing, spam, malware - prevents DHA and DOS and prevents IP leaving organisation with DLP policies.