Thursday, April 10, 2008, between 5:00 and 8:00 PM

at Premier Inc. (2320 Cascade Pointe Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28208)

Data Domain solutions deduplicate and store data to disk, massively reducing the amount of required storage capacity. This reduction in data volume enables a highly efficient use of a company’s existing wide area network (WAN) to send, or “vault,” data to a remote site and provides a safe, cost-efficient, disk-based disaster protection solution. This also allows for on-site retention of critical data on disk for a longer period of time, without the costs associated with primary data storage.

Raymond Leitz has over 15 years of systems architecture and design experience, having served as a resourceful IT executive and visionary consultant throughout his career. He is currently a Senior Systems Engineer for Data Domain, providing pre-sales and systems engineering / implementation support throughout North Florida.  Through early 2006, Ray served as the Chief Technologist at then-Fortune-100 AutoNation, where he was responsible for the company’s strategic IT and business infrastructure initiatives, and successfully delivered projects that provided significant cost reductions, while supporting a resilient IT infrastructure that was based in South Florida.  Prior to AutoNation, he consulted at companies including Motorola, American Express, and Sunbeam Household Products.  Ray initially began his career as a UNIX Systems and Oracle Database Administrator.  His key areas of interest include application provisioning and hosting, server virtualization technologies, IT service management, and server based (thin-client) computing environments.