Folks, finally we are out of February and into warmer weathers in March. Hope you all have been enjoying the early spring. IWUG is back with another awesome session this March. We are also back to IWUG’s original meeting location. So, no more having to climb 4 flights of stairs when the elevator stops working.

According to Wikipedia, Disaster Recovery is defined as “the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. 

Disaster recovery planning is a subset of a larger process known as business continuity planning and should include planning for resumption of applications, data, hardware, communications (such as networking) and other IT infrastructure.”

We choose this topic since it’s been requested on many of the evaluations you have provided us with, as well as an overwhelming response by every one of you present at the last meeting.  

We picked two of the best companies that provide the tools required for dealing with disaster recovery preparedness and they will provide you with technical insight of how their tools work and how you can plan on using them in your organizations.

When: Thursday, March 18^th 2010 at 6PM

Agenda:
6:00 – 6:30 Pizza / Social Time
6:30 – 6:45 Introduction/ IWUG Announcements / Speaker Intro
6:45 – 8:15 Event Presentation
8:14 – 8:30 Q&A / Door Prizes 

Presentation:
Preparing for Disaster Recovery

Double Take: Double-Take® for Hyper-V™ replicates and fails over Microsoft® Hyper-V virtual machines in real-time, locally or over any distance, without complexity. Double-Take for Hyper-V frees you from proprietary SAN replication technology, allowing you to use any available storage hardware to store virtual machine data in production or at the DR site.

NetApp: Your business isn't static, nor should your disaster recovery strategy be. Choosing the right DR solution can provide your business with a competitive advantage. At NetApp, our disaster recovery solution is based on a unified storage architecture that combines flexibility and robustness to meet varying service levels. And you can do more than just disaster recovery to maximize your return on investment by using replicated data for DR testing, data distribution, and development and test.

Directions:
From wherever you are joining us, find Meridian St. (US 31) on the north side - it’s 12 o’clock on the I-465 dial. Go east on 96th St. Parkwood Four is the second entrance on the left if you’re coming from Meridian St. Turn Left into the entrance. At the 4-way stop, turn right. 500 E. 96th St. is the second building on the left. The 1st floor conference room is, well – on the first floor. It’s right next to the MBP Catering café to make it easy to find!

Parking:
Parking is available in the Duke parking lot. Parking is free.

Snacks and Refreshments:
Join us at 6:00PM for pizza and soda. Get there on time to enjoy your fair share!
 
Speaker:
We will have speakers from Double Take and NetApp deliver their solutions to deal with disaster recovery.