Next week I’ll be participating in a webcast with the folks at Veeam on the subject of data protection and recovery architecture. The webinar will run on Wednesday May 26th at 4 ET and will also be available for replay. Here’s the topic information:

Times have changed, but has your data protection and recovery architecture? Backup has historically been viewed as more  a necessary evil than an enabler for efficient IT. However, the infrastructure flexibility resulting from large scale server virtualization deployments – combined with innovative vendor solutions – is causing IT decision makers to rethink the role of traditional backup. Legacy CPU- and I/O-intensive agent-based approaches are being replaced by more efficient solutions that intelligently leverage server-less backup techniques and replication, while preserving what’s best in traditional archive approaches. Disaster recovery (DR) readiness capabilities are now verifiable with real time backup archive and application stack verification. DR no longer has to be an expensive add-on. Instead, it should be a feature of the data protection software. This session led by Burton Group senior analyst Chris Wolf, and Veeam’s Doug Hazelman (Senior Director, Product Strategy) outline steps organizations can take transform data protection from an operational nuisance to a solution that drives more dynamic and resilient IT operations. Along the way, attendees will also learn about best practices for migrating from legacy to modern data protection architectures, as well as have their most pressing questions answered by Chris Wolf and Veeam’s team of experts.

Registration is now open, so if you’re interested you can register here.