Business continuity and disaster recovery workshops in Indiana and Michigan help organizations plan for the unexpected

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Workshops In Indiana and Michigan Help Organizations Plan for the Unexpected

Indianapolis, Ind. and Detroit, Michigan – January 13, 2015 –Online Tech is hosting free Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) workshops in Indianapolis on January 22 and in Detroit on February 19. The sessions will feature three industry experts who will guide attendees through BCDR planning strategies and real-world scenario exercises. Instructors, who have more than 60 years of combined IT experience, are:

• Lance Thompson, founder and president of Baseline Data Services, a company with a 100 percent recovery success rate.
• Steve Aiello, a technical architect who works closely with infrastructure and security teams to design highly resilient architectures.
• Nick Lumsden, director of infrastructure, Online Tech, owns broad and significant technology industry experience including infrastructure, software engineering and operations.

In these half-day morning workshops, participants will:

• Walk through a business continuity planning exercise.
• Review different IT architecture options for meeting three different disaster recovery scenarios.
• Learn lessons from experts who have seen it all in the real-life recovery of hundreds of companies from the brink of both human-made and natural disasters.

The interactive format will empower attendees with practical guidance to positively impact their own companies’ BCDR planning needs. Valuable expert counsel and peer review are also available to three organizations willing to share their BCDR challenges during the “IT Disaster Recovery Architecture Options” portion of each session.

Registration for each workshop is limited to 50 attendees, ensuring the sessions provide a focused learning environment. Instructors will also be available by appointment for one-on-one consultations after each workshop, giving attendees an additional opportunity to obtain guidance for their specific business continuity plans.

“Helping to educate our industry has been extremely important to us throughout our 20-year history,” said Yan Ness, co-CEO of Online Tech. “These free workshops are the latest examples of how we devote time and resources to professional training for data center and IT professionals. We have purposely designed these workshops to serve as highly practical planning sessions. Our goal is to enable attendees to work on their companies’ BCDR plans with help from experts who have deep and practical subject matter experience.

“Lance, Steve, and Nick have tremendous experience with business continuity initiatives, and I have seen first-hand how good they are at guiding people through successful disaster recovery planning. These workshops are going to be outstanding for attendees, and I’m very proud that we will be the host,” said Ness.

To register for the January 22 workshop in Indianapolis, and to learn more, please follow this link: https://web.otava.com/indianapolis-it-disaster-recovery-workshop.

To register for the February 19 workshop in suburban Detroit (Westland, MI), and to learn more, please follow this link: https://web.otava.com/metro-detroit-it-disaster-recovery-workshop.

About Online Tech

Online Tech is the Midwest’s leader in secure, compliant enterprise cloud and colocation hosting services. The company’s network of five data centers protects mission-critical applications to ensure they are always available, secure and compliant with government and industry regulations. Backed by independent HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2 and Safe Harbor audits, Online Tech delivers exceptional experiences for companies in need of a strategic hosting partner. For more information, call (877)740-5028, email contact us at onlinetech.com or visit .