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BC/DR Best Practices for the Data-Intensive Enterprise Sponsor: Level3
But how do you design a successful business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) strategy and put it to effective use? Watch this Webcast and hear the leading experts tackle those questions and more. In this Webcast you will learn how to: Join Donna Scott, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., Jeff Allen, Vice President of Business Markets for Level 3 Communications, and Jim Ryan, Director of Outreach and Network Development at Wall Street West as they discuss the increased awareness of disaster recovery management and the progress that has occurred since September 11th. Hear about a BC/DR solution that currently serves over 300 of the Fortune 500 companies, takes a collaborative approach and offers network strengths such as: -- Route diversity and redundancy Plus, find out how Wall Street West, a Federal and Pennsylvania State funded initiative to provide a total backup solution for financial services firms in New York City, utilized BC/DR to ensure the availability of its systems and networks. If your business is information technology then business and risk management must be a critical part of your infrastructure planning. Watch this Webcast and discover why many leading companies are making disaster recovery management an integral part of their business continuity management. Go now. ********** About Donna Scott Donna Scott is a vice president, distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. She is responsible for real-time infrastructure, business availability and business continuity/disaster recovery at Gartner. She focuses on best practices for IT operations management and architecture, end-to-end IT service management and 24x7 availability. Prior to her career in research, Ms. Scott spent 10 years in management consulting, managing medium- to large-scale business process engineering and business application implementations, including enterprise resource planning and financial systems. About Jeffrey Allen Mr. Allen is Vice President of Offer Management for Level 3’s Business Markets Group, and has responsibility for growing the company’s business in the Enterprise segment. Over the past three years, he held a number of roles within Level 3 including product management, business development, and M&A and integration support. Before joining Level 3, Mr. Allen focused on delivering products and technology solutions to the Enterprise market through a series of M&A activities and joint ventures for a major international telecommunications provider. Prior to that, he spent several years as a strategy consultant to the telecommunications industry. Mr. Allen holds a Masters degree in Finance and Technology Marketing. About Jim Ryan Jim Ryan is the Director of Outreach and Network Development for Wall Street West and is responsible for informing business leaders in New York's financial communities of the advantages of developing back-up operations in the nine northeastern Pennsylvania counties represented in Wall Street West (Berks, Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Northampton, Pike and Wayne). Additionally, he is responsible for overseeing the construction and deployment of the fiber optic network that will provide the necessary infrastructure for financial firms to locate back-up operations outside of lower Manhattan. Jim has more than 20 years of business experience in the telecommunications and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Wall Street West, he was Vice President of Operations for Broad Air Communications, where he established full operations for this early-stage and fixed wireless broadband provider in New Jersey. He also served more than 16 years with Applied Materials, the largest semiconductor capital equipment manufacturer in the world, in Santa Clara, California. As an Operations Executive, he held various leadership positions with Applied Materials and was responsible for global operations of semiconductor plants in the U.S., Asia and Europe. Jim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University in California. He also served in the United States Navy as a nuclear-trained submarine officer.
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