TORONTO, CANADA, June 11, 2009–Storage Guardian (www.storageguardian.com), the company that specializes in advanced online backup solutions for small to medium-sized businesses, is hosting a webinar in conjunction with Windows IT Pro Magazine. Aimed at small-business IT managers, and VARs and MSPs who sell into the small and medium-sized business sector, this free webinar from industry experts will provide tips on how to manage the ‘data tsunami’ faced by businesses.

WHEN: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 12:00 pm EDT  Duration: 60 minutes
REGISTER: http://tinyurl.com/nrtgpa

“You’re Faced with Data-Retention Mandates and Critical Data That’s Aging—What Do You Do?”

In this era of stringent regulatory compliance, many organizations must retain data well beyond the date at which it ceases to be operationally important. In a sense, companies need a data ‘attic’ because, as data ages, IT must institute a process that identifies and migrates ‘legacy’ data from costly online storage to more cost-effective storage.

The data retention strategy you implement must provide for fast restoration of the data, as mandated by regulatory requirements, and do so without placing a major burden on budgets or manpower.

In this webinar, we will examine the benefits of applying cloud storage coupled with a tiered-storage approach to data lifecycle management, and show how these techniques can satisfy the demands of your business.

SPEAKERS:

David Chernicoff
David Chernicoff is a technology consultant with a focus on the mid-market space, Windows IT Pro Magazine senior contributing editor, founding technical director for PC Week Labs (now eWeek), former lab director for Windows NT/Windows 2000 Magazine (now Windows IT Pro), and formerly chief technology officer for a network management tools ISV. David has been writing computer-related feature and product reviews for more than 20 years and is co-author of a number of operating system books, ranging from the Windows NT Workstation: Professional Reference (New Riders Publishing), to the Microsoft Windows XP Power Toolkit (Microsoft Press), as well as over a dozen e-books on topics ranging from network switching topologies to production FAX technology. These days he splits his time between writing, problem solving for his varied clientele, and consulting on keeping a few small datacenters up and running.

Dave Minns
As client services manager at Storage Guardian, Dave Minns provides the company’s MSP and VAR partners with excellent training and ongoing support, and ensures that their clients’ needs are met and exceeded.

Storage Guardian’s tiered-storage online data backup technology:

• Reduces cost of storage infrastructure
• Includes web search and retrieval in the restore and recovery process
• Archives data to a common source
• Offers automated or on-demand destruction of data
• Provides audit documentation that confirms destruction
• Provides channel partners with a recurring annuity