In today's economic climate, companies need a smart strategy to manage growing data and shrinking IT budgets. While many Global 2000 companies budget tens of millions of dollars for storage hardware capacity upgrades, industry data indicates that existing storage is grossly under-utilized, with organizations using just around 35 to 40 percent of optimal capacity. If these organizations can better use the assets they already own, they can delay extra storage purchases.

At the ‘Stop Buying Storage’ Seminar, experts will highlight proactive strategies for better utilization of existing storage assets to realize immediate cost savings and delay purchases.

Informative presentations will enable attendees to learn how to make the most of Symantec's software-led, hardware-neutral approach, that allows companies to maximize usage of their storage hardware, enabling them to purchase storage as & when required, and take advantage of declining hardware costs.

Welcome Note

Speaker: Hayden Sadler, Manager - Computing Platforms Technical Sales Support, Emirates Computers

Stop Buying Storage! And Start Optimizing Your Data Center

• Identify and reclaim unused storage capacity
• Provision storage you already own more effectively so you don't have to buy more
• Reduce the amount of duplicate data
• Move older data to lower-cost storage

Speaker: Sean Craig, Senior Systems Engineer, Symantec MENA

Lunch