Druva Wine Dinner, San Francisco

Wine dinners are exclusive and by invitation only for senior level management in Finance, HR, Sales, Marketing and IT.

Title: Data Protection for the Cloud Era

More and more enterprises are now leveraging the cloud to increase their level of data protection and management for their applications. The ability to keep secondary, or backup data in cloud storage  a) eliminates traditional data centers b) reduces operational complexity associated with legacy on-premise backup solutions c) Provides Unlimited scalability d) Centralizes storage of all secondary data sources e) Provides unlimited compute f) Gain additional insight and business value from that data. g) Finally, the ability to do automated Disaster Recovery (DR) without maintaining a DR facility

Key Takeaways:
1. An understanding of the diverging cost models of premises and cloud based infrastructures
2. A view into the impact of global regulation as it relates to premises and cloud based solutions
3. A perspective on the growth of SaaS as an industry in terms of requirements fulfilled for enterprise and how that is changing the landscape and the evolution of the data center.
4. Predictive data analytics for cloud data management and devops in cloud use cases and application of artificial intelligence in dev and production clouds.

Speaker: W. Curtis Preston, Chief Technologist

Curtis Preston, (aka Mr. Backup) is an expert in backup & recovery systems, a space he has been working in since 1993. He has written three books on the subject, Backup & Recovery, Using SANs and NAS, and Unix Backup & Recovery and has spoken at over 300 seminars and conferences around the world.   After years as an independent consultant he became Chief Technologist at  Druva Inc. in 2017. Preston’s mission remains the same: arming today’s IT managers with truly unbiased information about today’s storage industry and its products.