An ever-growing amount of business information, the increasingly pervading perception of data as a key asset, and new requirements like mobility, as well as economic constraints and tightening compliance requirements, all contribute to intense and often conflicting pressures on IT departments. IT must ensure the integrity and security of data while enabling comfortable access to data anywhere, by any type of end-user terminal. Pressures are added to derive greater business value from investments and to increase operational efficiency and cost effectiveness of data storage. These can be achieved by better utilizing an existing infrastructure and through wise implementation of new technologies.

IDC’s Storage and IT Security Roadshow addresses such issues and provides an open platform for discussion between independent experts, industry leaders, and end-user organizations, as well as the sharing of experiences and best practices regarding the latest technologies available for storage and security.

Visiting 8 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, IDC’s combined Storage and IT Security Roadshow 2009 will be organized around local market needs, and each event will include either plenary and/or parallel sessions covering the following topics: