APTARE CEO RICHARD CLARK TO PARTICIPATE IN PANEL AT DATA
PROTECTION SUMMIT 2007
Focus on "How to Create Your Own Data Protection Plan"
CAMPBELL, Calif. - February 27, 2007 - Richard Clark, CEO of APTARE®,
Inc., a provider of web-based storage reporting and management software,
will participate in a data protection panel at the first-annual Data Protection
Summit 2007 in Irvine, CA.
The roundtable, "How to Create Your Own Data Protection Plan",
will be held on Monday, March 12, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. The panel will be
led by Bruce Backa, President of NTP Software and Editor-in-Chief, Information
Storage and Security Journal. In addition to Clark, other participants
on the panel include executives from IBM, Lumigent Technologies, Application
Security, Protegrity, EMC, and Compuware.
"Data has become the crown jewel of most enterprises," said
Clark, "and companies are held to a higher degree of accountability
when it comes to safeguarding their data. Fortunately, there are certain
measures that IT mangers can take to implement an effective data protection
plan to reduce their data exposure, improve capacity planning, increase
performance and streamline regulatory compliance. Data Protection Summit
is an excellent venue that provides a valuable service for IT managers
and vendors that are implementing and updating their data protection strategies."
APTARE continues to be the solution of choice when it comes to data protection
management among Fortune 500 companies. Its award-winning solution, APTARE
StorageConsole®, is a web-based portal that provides a centralized
view of the backup and recovery environment, allowing storage administrators
to have real-time access to dashboard reports. APTARE StorageConsole
supports all of the major backup solutions including Veritas NetBackup,
Veritas Backup Exec, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), and EMC Legato
NetWorker.
About Data Protection Summit
The first annual Data Protection Summit, the nation's only conference
dedicated entirely to keeping data safe, secure, and private, will be
held March 12-15, 2007 at the Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport in Irvine,
California. The Summit is the place to learn how to keep data safe and
secure, protect information assets, avoid data breaches, and achieve regulatory
compliance. The event includes tutorials, workshops, paper and panel sessions,
keynotes, and exhibits. To learn more about the Summit or for online registration,
please visit www.dataprotectionsummit.com.
About Richard Clark, CEO, APTARE
Clark has twenty years of leadership experience in the enterprise software
industry. He founded APTARE in 1993 with the sole purpose of developing
scalable web-based applications for large enterprises. As CEO, he is responsible
for setting the strategic vision and direction of the company. In addition
to founding APTARE, Clark served as Chief Information Officer for Sanrise,
a leading storage service provider where he was responsible for the strategic
direction of the company's solutions. Clark has several patents covering
web-based architectures for enterprises and holds a Bachelor of Commerce
degree with Honors and a Bachelor of Science degree from Auckland University,
New Zealand.
About APTARE
Headquartered in Campbell, California, APTARE is a provider of web-based
enterprise applications that simplify the management and optimization
of complex data protection environments like backup and recovery. APTARE
StorageConsole, the company's flagship product, is a browser-based portal
that gives IT administrators and executives a centralized, real-time view
of their data protection environment through interactive dashboards. Using
APTARE StorageConsole, storage administrators can easily identify exposed
data, improve capacity planning, increase performance, and streamline
compliance. The software is sold direct, through a large base of resellers
and managed services organizations. For more information, visit http://www.aptare.com.
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