This summer will see huge product announcements from both IBM Storage and Predatar designed to boost customer's data resilience and give them total confidence in their ability to recover when the worst happens. The great news is that Predatar's Komodo Dragon release and IBM Storage Defender is an unbeatable combination for data resilience.

This session will provide insights from IBM and Predatar leaders on their latest technologies and how they work together to achieve a shared vision for recovery assurance.
  • Welcome and Introductions
  • Fireside chat discussion with Alistair Mackenzie and Ian Shave
  • Predatar for IBM Storage Defender demo with Ian Richardson
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    Alistair Mackenzie
    Founder & CEO, Predatar
    Once upon a time, Alistair was an IBM storage sales rep. For the past 20 years he has been building businesses and technology that help IBM storage customers tackle some of their biggest challenges.
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    Ian Shave
    Director, Data Resilience – Worldwide Sales, IBM
    For more than 20 year's Ian has been passionate about helping IBM customers overcome their data storage challenges. Today, one of the biggest challenges is data resilience, and Ian is leading the charge globally as IBM's Director of Worldwide Sales for data resilience.
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    Ian Richardson
    Senior Technical Director, Predatar
    Having worked within the IBM storage ecosystem for many years there are few people with IBM Storage knowledge comparable to his.

    Ian has led pre-sales teams, driven product innovation, and headed up ops for businesses in the UK and US. Today he's Predatar's technical lead.