InformationWeek

Mission-critical IT infrastructures are not immune to disasters, natural or manmade. Both hardware and data must be protected and duplicated or backed up. However, E-business and E-commerce deployments radically increase the number of hardware items, the number of transactions, including transactions in progress, and the amount of data that must be covered by IT disaster recovery strategies. In addition, much of the disaster recovery infrastructure, logging, mirroring, etc, must be in place and working all the time that the main infrastructure is working normally. This InformationWeek NetForum will tell IT professionals what they need to know about the theory and practice of disaster recovery in general and IT disaster recovery in particular.

Discussion topics include:

		When and how to integrate with storage management software as part of disaster recovery planning
		How to ensure data integrity in the recovery process
		When and how to deploy various transaction recovery technologies
		How to structure agreements with medium- and long-distance connectivity providers to ensure adequate bandwidth for disaster recovery purposes
		How to coordinate recovery across multiple databases, operating systems and storage systems

Moderator:
Peter Weiss, Senior Managing Editor, Events, InformationWeek

Analyst:
Colin Rankine, VP, Research Leader, Computing Infrastructures, Giga

Panelist:
Steve Bass, SVP, IT, New York Board of Trade
Ken Smith, CIO, PolyOne