Rising costs and mountains of data make the protection of data a daunting challenge. In this session learn about best practices for backup and archive, costs of disk and tape, tape encryption, how to utilize disk and tape to address objectives and the exciting new LTO-5 tape technology, review the updated LTO roadmap and the new Linear Tape File System which can allow the use of tape in a fashion like disk or other removable media!

An introduction to Ekahau’s Real Time Location Solution, reviewing the market drivers and financial benefits of this technology. Discover the advantages of deploying a single architecture software solution. This session will demonstrate the technical and functional deliverables, whilst evaluating the return on investment from an existing client.

"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?"

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.