True Business Continuity for the Virtual Data Centre
Andy Hardy,Managing Director of International Sales, Compellent
Andy Hardy is managing director of international sales at Compellent.
In this role he is responsible for building and growing Compellent's international sales channel through a select network of channel partners across Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Before joining Compellent in January 2007, Hardy spent 12 years as an international venture capitalist with Nomura Private Equity Group working for six years in the Group’s IT management practice and then six years in its Venture Capital division working primarily with late-stage US technology companies.
He previously held senior sales, product marketing and service management positions with Itochu in Japan and Basys (now Avid) in London, UK. Hardy began his 25-year career as an electronics engineer with the Royal Australian Air Force. Hardy is based at Compellent’s European headquarters in Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK.
Session Synopsis
Automated failover of virtual servers and storage across geographically dispersed locations represents true business continuity for multi-site data centre operators.
This session highlights, with real-world examples, the limitations of traditional disaster recovery (DR) solutions based on conventional storage array failover techniques and identifies the latest approaches using server and storage virtualization can transition a DR strategy into a complete business continuity solution.
Session date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 1:30pm
Presentation Discussion
Join the discussion
Add your comments below
Only logged in members can join the discussion, click here to join, it's free.