Data growth is widely regarded as the #1 datacentre infrastructure challenge faced by businesses today.

We will discuss the future of backup & recovery, highlighting key solutions within Dell’s broad portfolio including the DR4000 appliance with its groundbreaking deduplication and compression technology, and AppAssure’s highly innovative and award winning backup & replication software. We will also hear from Quest, a recent Dell acquisition, on how they believe these challenges are best addressed!

This 40 minute session will cover:

•  A look at the business pressures of a typical backup & recovery environment
•  Dell’s innovative solutions to address these pressures
•  An introduction to the DR4000 including live demo
•  Introduction to AppAssure
•  AppAssure live demonstration
•  An introduction to Quest
•  Q&A

Speaker profiles

Peter de Vente - Senior Technical Account Manager, Dell Quest

Peter is a Technical Account Manager for Dell Quest Data Protection in the North Europe and MEA region. Working in the data protection industry for more than 15 years, his experience spans hardware and software solutions from straight forward backup to business critical real-time application data protection.

Evan Crilly - Business Development Manager, Dell AppAssure

Evan is the Business Development Manager for AppAssure in the UK. He brings with him over 10 years of Dell & industry experience, most of these as a Server & Storage solution consultant for the Medium Business space.

Phil Newman - Enterprise Technologist, Dell

Phil has more than 10 years experience within the storage industry, most recently at Dell, where he joined as part of the acquisition of Ocarina Networks. Phil’s role at Dell is to evangelise the forthcoming and existing technologies. Prior to Dell, Phil has a history of working for IT start-ups and those businesses that acquire them!