Let the eGroup backup and recovery therapists show you the latest in data protection methods that will get you back in the game.

Join eGroup Technical Consultants and EMC Specialists throughout the Carolinas for our multi-city Backup and Recovery Solutions "hands-on" demonstration and learn how eGroup and EMC's Solutions can empower unbelievable levels of data protection, streamline backup and recovery operations, and enable wide range of service levels - even for the largest data sets. Score a touchdown with stress free IT.

eGroup's award-winning hands-on eBlock equipment rack will be on-site at each venue, offering customers the opportunity to directly experience the newly released power of EMC Avamar v6.0 integrated with DataDomain 670 platforms - satisfying a variety of use cases - from densely virtualized environments, to classic tier-1 application and data protection, even desktop/laptop use cases in a traditional or VDI environment! The on-site platform also includes Cisco UCS Servers, EMC Isilon, EMC VNX 5500 Unified Storage, Cisco Nexus 5000 10GbE unified fabric switches, and VMware View 5!

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Improve data protection while lowering costs. EMC's comprehensive set of backup offerings now delivers more capabilities to help you simplify management of your expanding environment, meet new backup requirements, and control explosive data growth.

- <strong>Faster backup and restores</strong> - Meet more aggressive backup windows, and restore your key applications in minutes, not days.

- <strong>Reduced backup windows</strong> - Minimize backup windows to reduce impact on your application and system availability.

- <strong>Reduced business risk</strong> - Restore data quickly and accurately with built-in hardware redundancy and RAID protection.

- <strong>More control</strong> - Protect key data with policy-based management of information retention and deletion.

- <strong>Improved IT efficiency</strong> - Save hours of staff time and boost user productivity.

- <strong>Reduced costs</strong> - Match infrastructure costs with changing information value via efficient, cost-effective tiered storage or low-cost monthly subscription services.

At the event, you'll discover how to address today's business challenges with backups and learn from expert discussions and demonstrations on:

- Integrating Data Domain into existing backup infrastructures

- Countering the effects of rapid data growth with EMC's Avamar

- Backing up virtual environments

- Monitoring, Analyzing, and reporting on your backups using Data Protection Advisor (DPA)

Utilizing Isilon for archives for selected data types

<strong>Questions? e-mail <a href="mailto:Elizabeth.Wilmes@eGroup-us.com">Liz Wilmes</a> or call 1-877-eGROUP-1.</strong>