A recent survey conducted at SNW Europe 2008 revealed that storage virtualization and new data protection technologies were highest on the list of priorities for IT professionals in 2009. Therefore, SNIA Europe is focusing in on these topic areas in the 2009 SNIA Europe Academy program that will once again be visiting cites across the region.

Each event program will include new customer case studies, panel discussions and plenty of networking opportunities with industry experts and peers.

Featured sessions in 2009 include:

• Server and Storage Virtualization – What, Why, Where and How
• Data Deduplication – Business Value and Technical Considerations
• Solid State Storage for the Enterprise
• Comparing Server I/O Consolidation Solutions including FCoE
• Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies

Click here to register for any of these events:

Zurich, Kongresshaus – 27th January 2009

Dubai, Mina A’Salam – 3rd February 2009

Stockholm, Sheraton Hotel – 24th March 2009

Copenhagen, Hilton – 26th March 2009

Paris, Coeur Defense – 28th April 2009

London, Inmarsat – 19th May 2009

New venues will be added throughout the year – so check back often.

DMF Chair Matthew Brisse
to represent the DMF during
SNIA Winter Symposium
Forum & Initiative Panel
Wed, January 15th

See full Agenda here

This paper has been released to DMF members for final review. Click here to review and comment.

This paper includes 35 terms, but is not a dictionary. Instead, it provides an explanation of what the terms mean in the context of retention and preservation of digital information, and is consistent with what the DMF believes to be best practices based on Information-Centric Management and ILM-based practices for the datacenter.

This objectives of this paper are:

• Define concepts and a terminology-set that bring business, corporate, legal, RIM, security, and IT interests together to address information retention and preservation holistically.
• Create a comparative terminology-set between this context and other key archival and preservation oriented industry glossaries to act as a bridge to better communicate this terminology within the datacenter.

You have until January 27th to review and submit your comments before this document is released publicly. Let your voice be heard!

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