On Thursday, March 26th eGroup hosted an event along with its technology partners EMC, Cisco, and VMware in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The event brought eGroup and its customers together with eGroup's strategic vendors in a unique open forum setting, where a panel of experts representing each of the three manufacturers encouraged the audience to ask questions. This format allowed the discussion to go in the direction that the audience dictated, enabling attendees to take away truly useful information. <!--more-->In keeping with the title, "What You Need to Know to Keep your Datacenter Afloat", the event was held in a unique venue aboard U.S.S Yorktown, the tenth aircraft carrier to serve in the United States Navy.The topics of discussion ranged from disaster recovery and business continuity to Green IT and virtualization. After the event attendees were invited to meet with the representatives of each manufacturer and eGroup to ask any additional questions they had, as well as to tour the ship and enjoy "Top Gun like fighting" on the Flight Simulator.

Stay tuned to <a href="http://www.eGroup-us.com">www.eGroup-us.com</a> for future events following this same open discussion format in a city near you.