OptimiseIT

Optimising IT infrastructure protection and performance, boosting your organisation's online success, OGL Computer presents Birmingham's IT event of 2010:

Disaster Recovery, Virtualisation, eCommerce & Web Marketing

at McGregor's Suite, Aston Villa Football Club, Villa Park, Birmingham, B6 6HE

Thursday 23 September 2010, 1000hrs - 1300hrs, followed by a buffet lunch and a complimentary tour of the Historic Villa Park.

The seminar is also held in support of Birmingham St. Mary's Hospice and OGL will make a donation for every seminar attendee.

To register for the seminar please click here.

Programme, Presentations and the Speakers....

0930hrs Registration & Meet the Presenters

Attendee registration, welcome refreshments and the opportunity to discuss the seminar's themes ahead of the morning's presentations.

1000hrs Welcome and Agenda
Paul Colwell, Head of R&D, OGL

Elaborating on the agenda for the morning, Paul will explain how Optimise IT will benefit your IT infrastructure and how the presentations integrate, from protecting your system's data from disaster, optimising your infrastructure through virtualisation to boosting your organisation's success on the web.

Specialising in MS messaging and IT security while a consultant at SCC, Paul Colwell has designed enterprise networks for worldwide organisations including McDonald's, Britvic and Kellogg's prior to his move to OGL. As Head of R&D at OGL, Paul has overseen the company's development in virtualisation, business continuity and disaster recovery.

1015hrs Disaster Recovery: creating an effective DR plan
Mark Slater, Lead Consultant, Product Development, OGL

Be it your customer database, accounts records or project documentation, data is the lifeblood of your organisation. To lose this data as a result of a fire, flood or theft could be fatal to your business, therefore, creating a robust disaster recovery plan for your IT infrastructure is a necessity. Mark provides critical information on how you can develop a strong Disaster Recovery plan including the key factors you need to consider and the options available to protect your data. Mark also elaborates on Offsite Recovery, OGL's new offsite backup and disaster recovery solution, explaining how it can guarantee the safety of your mission-critical data and IT applications in the event of a worst case scenario, while ensuring access to it within just 24 hours.

Mark Slater's career in IT spans 23 years to date, the majority of that time spent with OGL. Following a period specialising in UNIX and Microsoft consultancy, today Mark has extensive expertise with virtualisation-enabled disaster recovery and business continuity projects, most significantly developing and installing a solution which provides server redundancy to a major nationwide retailer.

1100hrs Refreshment interval

1115hrs Virtualisation: from server consolidation to high availability
Stuart Miles, Lead Virtualisation Consultant, OGL

If your organisation depends on server technology, virtualisation could reduce your costs while boosting performance and efficiency. Stuart Miles explains the concepts behind virtualisation, from the advantages of consolidation incorporating reduced support and management costs, energy saving and the green credentials, through to portability and the rapid provisioning and deployment of new servers. Server migration is also a key advantage of virtualisation, and Stuart will inform how it can enable high availability and optimum business continuity.

Stuart Miles joined OGL as an Engineering graduate from the University of Exeter in 1997 and over the past 13 years he has developed a range of technical and consultancy skills, specialising in Virtualisation and Microsoft products. Stuart has been at the forefront of many of OGL's largest virtualisation projects and provides high-level consultancy on the subject.

1200hrs eCommerce & Web Marketing: opening your organisation to the power of the web
Nick Davies, Software Division Manager, OGL

An effective web presence is vital for your organisation, whether your objective is to attract new clients, improve communication with existing customers or spread your organisation's message to the public. Achieving your goals requires an effective combination of web design, Search Engine Optimisation and, if your objective is to increase profit online, eCommerce. Nick explains the key considerations for effective eCommerce and Web Marketing, what you can do to improve your web presence and outlines how OGL's WebServices can help your organisation achieve its objectives online.

Nick Davies has been involved with software development throughout his 15 year career, delivering projects for customers in various market sectors, from leading banking & finance operations, the MOD and business solutions for SMEs. Nick's role at OGL has been to progress the development of the market leading prof.ITplus system along with associated eBusiness services.

1245hrs Summary
Paul Colwell

Paul Colwell will summarise the morning's event and invite further questions from the floor.

1300hrs Buffet lunch

Lunch with the opportunity to ask the speakers additional questions and see further demonstrations of the solutions under discussion.

1330hrs to 1415hrs Historic Villa Park Stadium Tour

Join an optional complimentary tour of Villa Park, taking in the changing rooms, players' tunnel, pitch and dugout.

Please note that free, secure onsite car parking at Villa Park is available. To register for the seminar, please click here.

For more information on the seminar, please call OGL's Marketing Team on 01299 873 873.