"The evidence from Gartner, Meta and other research organizations indicates that conventional physical disaster recovery (DR) plans are largely fiction," according to Steve Kaplan and Gary Lamb, both principals in AccessFlow. "The true intent behind them is to secure an auditor check off rather than to provide a workable design for quick IT recovery from a disaster," say Kaplan and Lamb, who will jointly be giving a session on the subject at Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 next month in San Francisco.

"The problem is that physical DR solutions are too limited, complex and expensive to be practical for most organizations," they continue. "Whereas virtualization on the other hand provides both the platform and tools required for creating a cost-effective disaster recovery solution that actually works."

Their session is called "Providing Ultimate DR Through Virtualization." AccessFlow is a virtualization consultancy recently designated by VMware as the VMware Rising Star of the Americas.  

Steve Kaplan has written multiple books and scores of articles on disaster recovery and other IT topics. He has spoken at well-known IT venues across the globe including two VMworlds, Citrix iForum Australia, Continuity Insights Conference in New Orleans, and he delivered the keynote at ThinPower 2006 in Norway. While Gary Lamb has over 24 years of IT experience dating back to MVP systems programming, and including running a security consulting practice for ISS.  He has helped implement DR solutions for multiple Fortune 1000 clients including designing the branch ATM backup network for one of the nation’s largest banks, and is currently helping design a virtual DR grid for the State of Nevada.

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Kaplan and Lamb join a diverse and industry-savvy faculty of speakers at the Event, including:

Kevin Brown - President and CEO, Kidaro
David C. Christian - Founder & CTO, MindBridge
Kevin Epstein - VP Products, Scalent
Andrew Hillier - CTO & Co-founder, CiRBA
Arthur Hitomi - CTO & Co-Founder, Endeavors Technologies
Gordon Jackson - Virtualization Evangelist, DataSynapse
Peter Linkin - Senior Manager Data Center Marketing, Cisco
Bob Lozano - Co-Founder & Chief Strategist, Appistry
Tim Pacileo - Executive Consultant, IT Strategy
Matt Quinn - SVP, Product Strategy, TIBCO
Ben Rudolph - Director of Corporate Communications, Parallels/SWsoft
Brian Stevens - CTO & VP, Engineering, Red Hat
Erik Troan - CTO, rPathx
Rin Ure - Performance Engineer, Verio
Alex Vasilevsky - Co-Founder & VP of Technology, Virtual Iron
Roland Wartenberg - Director of Virtualization Strategy, SAP
Jack Wilson - Enterprise Architect, Amerisure


Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 is co-located with the 12th International SOA World Conference & Expo.  That event too has a heavyweight faculty, including:

David Chappell - VP and Chief Technologist for SOA, Oracle
Raymond Feng- Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Marc Rix - Lead Architect, SAIC
Deepak Alur- VP of Engineering, JackBe
Alain Gendre - Head of SOA Solution Division and BPM Program , ILOG
Sastry Malladi - Technology Evangelist, eBay
Matt Mihic - Chief Architect & VP of Engineering, Rearden Commerce
Michael Pellegrini - Principal Architect , Active Endpoints
Matthew Quinn - Sr. VP, Product Strategy, TIBCO
Jesus Rodriguez - Chief Software Architect, TwoConnect
Rakesh Saha - Lead Developer for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle
Francois Depayras - VP of Marketing, Ensim
Kyle Gabhart - Director of SOA Technology, Web Age Solutions
Gaspar Petrosyan - Principal Solutions Architect, ClearApp
Rami Jaamour - PM for SOA Solutions, Parasoft
Jonas Jacobi - Co-Founder & CEO, Kaazing
Sajindra Jayasena - Senior Software Architect, Virtusa
Sanjaya Karunasena - Enterprise Architect,  WS02
Paul Lipton - Senior Architect, Intellectual Property and Standards Group, CA
Dan Malks - VP of Application Platform Development, JackBe
Sekhar Sarukkai - Co-Founder & CTO, Securent
Rich Schreiber - EVP, Nastel
Ian Thain - Senior Technical Evangelist, Sybase
John Woolbright - SVP & CTO of Synovus Financial.

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