South Florida Technology Alliance Presents, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Keeping the Wheels on When Things Get Rough

Press Release – For Immediate Release
Fort Lauderdale, Fla
May 19, 2009

South Florida Technology Alliance Presents, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Keeping the Wheels on When Things Get Rough

The South Florida Technology Alliance, an organization promoting the growth, success and awareness of the South Florida technology community, is hosting an event May 28 discussing business continuity and disaster recovery.

Hurricane season begins June 1, making disaster recovery and business continuity planning a top priority for many South Florida businesses. The SFTA is bringing together a panel of senior IT executives to share the practical realities of preparing for the worst.

Topics being discussed with include how to keep critical departments functioning, ensuring delivery of key systems, leveraging computer architecture, virtualization, cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS).

“We want people to understand the critical differences between recovery planning and keeping business running, as well as how to evaluate return on investment,” said Chris Burgio, president of the SFTA. “The panelists are true experts in their industries and bring valuable perspective for our members to get their readiness checklists in order.”

Panelists will include Ron Lynch, Assistant Vice President and Senior Property & Casualty Risk Engineer of Chubb, Johann Vaz, Senior I.T. Director of BioTest Pharmaceuticals, Patty Barney, CIO of Broward College, Wayne Clary, Director of Worldwide Technical Operations for Avaya, and Jason Herrera, South Florida Senior Storage Specialist for Dell.

The event will be held Thursday, May 28 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Marriot North, 6650 North Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The event is sponsored by Host.net (www.host.net), drinks provided by Avaya (www.avaya.com) and Empire Technologies (www.getempire.com).

To register, visit www.southfloridatech.org.

About the SFTA
South Florida Technology Alliance (SFTA) brings more than 11 years of leadership as the most effective technology organization in the region. Committed to the growth, success and awareness of the vibrant South Florida technology community, SFTA fosters an exciting network of companies, academia, capital resources, and government for the immediate and future success of technology-related interests in our region. (www.southfloridatech.org)


Contact
Jackie Fernandez (jackie@southfloridatech.org)
Executive Director
South Florida Technology Alliance
954.239.9739