Multi-site Operations and Geographic Business Continuity in a Post 9/11 World

Wayne Karpoff Vice President & CTO, YottaYotta Inc., YottaYotta Inc.

	MULTI-SITE OPERATIONS AND GEOGRAPHIC BUSINESS CONTINUITY IN A POST 9/11 WORLD Over the past five years, both naturally induced and man-made disasters have forced a dramatic re-thinking in the way government and business operations need to be deployed. Large operations are now targeted by terrorists, disgruntled employees, and amateur hackers. Hurricane Katrina, the Montreal ice storm, the Oklahoma bombing, and the Edmonton tornado are all examples events causing increased sensitivity to operational fault tolerance. The rapid growth in data volumes also requires new approaches that drive operational efficiency. It is clear that traditional approaches, such as regular backups or remote mirroring of data, is an insufficient response to protecting organizations from today's realities and driving business efficiency. This talk will draw on YottaYotta's extensive experience with the front line of next generation operations - the international agency and federal government space. Their experience and solutions will be extrapolated to trends in operational continuity and distributed enterprise. The lessons from the leading-edge will be applied to the reality of Alberta's business and government community in better protecting our operations and driving down our operational costs. ABOUT WAYNE KARPOFF Wayne Karpoff is currently co-founder and CTO of Edmonton based YottaYotta Inc., a dominant player in next generation, geographically-deployed storage and data management technology. Its customers and research partners include some of the most demanding data users in the world. YottaYotta is currently a private company having raised over $90 million in equity financing. At YottaYotta, Wayne has filled a wide spectrum of senior management roles. Wayne is the founding chair of the Alberta ICT Council, an organization that brings together ICT industry organizations from around the province along with government and institutional stakeholders in the growth of the ICT industry. Wayne is a board member and past co-chair of the Digital Solutions Alliance, an organization that partners stakeholders with coalitions of Alberta SME's to commercialize technology required to address very large problems, such as scalable healthcare infrastructure. He has chaired several "Connector" events which matches Alberta companies with IP based opportunities in world markets. He also co-chairs the Edmonton ICT Cluster. He sits on the board of InfoTech, TEC Edmonton, is a founding board member of the Alberta Chamber of Technologies and is a Regent at Grant MacEwan College. Wayne is on the steering committee for the Banff Venture Forum and served for 6 years on IRC of iCORE, and sits on the advisory boards of several Edmonton companies. He has also served as president of several community boards outside the technology space. Prior to YottaYotta, Wayne was president of Myrias Computer Technologies Inc, a world technology leader in parallel supercomputing technology. Prior to leading Myrias, Wayne held a wide range of management roles within Myrias. He has also worked and taught at the University of Alberta. Wayne holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta. Wayne holds several pending and awarded patents. Wayne holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta. www.yottayotta.com