NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nasuni® announced today that Andres Rodriguez, Nasuni’s CEO, will participate in a Cloud Connect Webinar along with Forrester Analyst, Vanessa Alvarez, titled, “10 Storage Infrastructure Demands.” Steve Wylie, general manager of Cloud Connect, will host.
The participants will discuss what IT professionals should expect from the storage infrastructures they build and manage, and how enterprises can do more with less while dealing with unpredictable data growth, increasingly sophisticated technologies, and complex data protection systems. Additionally, the presenters will explore how enterprises can leverage cloud-backed solutions to simplify storage, reduce costs and keep up with the rapid growth of data.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 10:00 A.M. PT/1:00 P.M. ET
WHERE: To register, please visit this link.
WHAT: Specifically, Alvarez and Rodriguez will explain how IT infrastructures should be able to deliver:
- Simplicity: Storage infrastructure should reduce IT complexity, not introduce new challenges;
- Unlimited scale: The cloud enables IT to stay ahead of data growth with limitless capacity and on-demand provisioning;
- Performance: IT can leverage the cloud and still give users local performance through the fast restore of files and disaster recovery;
- Security: Data should be safe with complete, end-to-end protection; and
- Reduced costs: By investing IT resources more efficiently, IT really can do more with less.
WHO:
Vanessa Alvarez, Analyst, Forrester Research: Alvarez serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. She focuses on primary storage architectures and strategy, the evolution of these as they relate to converged infrastructure, and cloud computing scenarios, and also works with Infrastructure & Operations Professionals to navigate the complexity of increasingly sophisticated systems in order to enable a more strategic storage environment.
Alvarez has appeared on Bloomberg TV and is regularly quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, Forbes, and CNNMoney.
Andres Rodriguez, Founder and CEO, Nasuni: Rodriguez is CEO of Nasuni, which offers a new breed of data protection, accessibility and support to organizations that require their data be available 100 percent of the time with no risk of data loss. His previous company, Archivas, developed an enterprise-class cloud storage system and was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems in 2006. As CTO of The New York Times he drove digital strategy at NYTimes.com and Boston.com, and worked extensively on digital content preservation for archives. Earlier in his career, Andres was co-founder and VP of engineering for Abuzz, a pioneering social networking company The New York Times acquired in 1999.
Steve Wylie, General Manager, Cloud Connect: Wylie has been involved with some of the world’s leading business technology conferences for the past 15 years. As the general manager for UBM TechWeb’s Cloud Connect brand, Wylie is the driving force behind the defining cloud event for IT professionals, developers, and leading cloud providers. Wylie is a regular columnist on InformationWeek.com and serves on the Social Networking advisory board at HR.com. Steve formerly chaired the Enterprise 2.0 Conferences and co-chaired the annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Wylie managed Interop’s renowned InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies.
About Nasuni
Nasuni, the leading provider of next-generation enterprise storage, offers a new breed of data protection, accessibility and support to organizations that require their data be available 100 percent of the time with no risk of data loss. Nasuni’s storage services network offers IT an all-in-one solution that unifies primary data storage, offsite disaster recovery, and data backup with a 100 percent reliability guarantee that is supported by the storage industry’s most stringent service level agreement. With Nasuni, organizations can simplify IT, ensure business continuity, and reduce the total cost of storage. For more information, visit www.nasuni.com.
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