Business Continuity in the cloud era:

In today’s highly automated infrastructures the traditional way of performing business continuity tasks just does not work anymore. It is time for both organizational and technical measures that match the granular control and automation possibilities that you expect today. Where business continuity was once set by schedules, scripts and procedures it can now be configured based on policies and will be highly automated.

That is why the cloud architects of Weolcan have teamed up with the Backup & Recovery experts of Rubrik to deliver you insights into a new technology that can easily be compared with the level of disruption that Nutanix showed with its hyper-converged infrastructures.

About the organizers:

This event is organized by the Cloud architects at Weolcan. This Amsterdam based cloud consultancy firm is vendor independent and works with large national and multi-national customers to develop and execute their cloud strategy. For this event they were able to bring to Amsterdam the CEO and CTO of a company that they think is about to shake up the market.

Previous sessions organized by Weolcan receive a high level of appreciation because of the high quality content.

Meetup agenda

This session will be held partially in Dutch but is open for English speaking guests. Upon request all sessions can be done in English.

16.00 - 16.30 : Registration & drinks (powered by Rubrik)

16.30 - 16.45 : Welcome and introduction - Bart M. Veldhuis (Weolcan) (Dutch)

16.45 - 17.15 : Measures for business continuity in cloud – Bart M. Veldhuis (Dutch)

In this session Bart will take us into the lessons learned & best practices about arranging business continuity in the cloud. In this session Bart will touch the whole spectrum of business continuity at a very high pace. Bart is also the chairman of the Cloud Architect Alliance and he will share with us the most important takeaways from the last Cloud Architect Alliance session on Business Continuity. This session is guaranteed to be worth the trip to Amsterdam.

17.15 - 17.35 : Cloud-based Disaster Recovery - Jeffrey Kusters (ITQ) (Dutch)

The characteristics of cloud computing make Disaster Recovery to the cloud an ideal use case. In this session, Jeffrey will share his experiences with designing and implementing a Cloud-based Disaster Recovery solution. He will explain in detail what considerations should be taken into account and what a typical approach for a DR to the cloud implementation could or should look like.

- ten minute break -

17.45 - 18.10 : Bipul Sinha CEO of Rubrik - Disrupting the data protection market (English)

As the founder of Rubrik Bipul will take us into detail on why he invested in a company that has the mission to disrupt the data protection market. Data protection today is so much different than a couple of years ago and Bipul will show you the philosophy behind his investment in Rubrik.

18.10 - 18.30 : Chris Wahl on technical aspects of data protection (English)

If you take a blanc piece of paper and desig the best possible backup & recovery solution using todays available technologies. Will it look like traditional backup software? No it won’t! In this technical session Chris will show us the details about Rubriks inventions on the field of backup & recovery. Chris will show us why it was necessary to completely re-invent a backup & recovery product and why this new way of performing backups matches your level of automation.

18.30 - 19.00 : Drinks and reception

About the speakers:

Bart M. Veldhuis, Cloud Architect at Weolcan and founder of the Cloud Architect Alliance

Bart is a seasoned cloud architect with over 15 years of infrastructure architecting experience. He is the founder of the Cloud Architect Alliance, a forum for experienced cloud architects to share knowledge and exchange experience. Bart is a serial entrepreneur and founded the first VMware based cloud provider in the BeneLux. Bart founded the vendor independent consultancy firm Weolcan to help organizations bring tangible results from their cloud strategy.

Next to Weolcan’s vision to deliver tangible and actionable cloud advise we also like to share our knowledge. We therefore organize several meetups like the Cloud Architect Alliance, the meetups for Cloud Brokerage & Orchestration and also API management.

Jeffrey Kusters, Team Lead Hybrid Cloud at ITQ

Jeffrey Kusters is a Sr. Consultant and Team Lead Hybrid Cloud at ITQ. ITQ specializes in delivering professional services on VMware technology. With a strong background in IT infrastructures, Jeffrey is active in the IT industry for over 15 years with clients in most major industries including public safety, finance and oil industries. Jeffrey is recognized as a VMware vExpert and also blogs about IT topics on his personal blog http://jeffreykusters.nl.

Bipul Sinha, CEO of Rubrik Inc

Bipul Sinha is a Co-Founder & CEO of Rubrik. Bipul brings 18+ years of experience in building billion-dollar products and companies from the ground up. Bipul is also a Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and his current board memberships include Nutanix, PernixData, Numerify and Peel. Previously, Bipul worked at Blumberg Capital where he led investments in data center software infrastructure and Internet sectors. His selected investments include Nutanix and Hootsuite. Prior to venture capital, Bipul was with Banc of America Technology Investment Banking Group where he worked on M&A and equity financing transactions. Previously, Bipul was Director of database and middleware products with Oracle Corporation. Bipul also held sales and engineering positions at American Megatrends and IBM.

Bipul received his B.Tech. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and holds an MBA from The Wharton School where he was a Palmer Scholar. Bipul also holds several patents in distributed computing.

Chris Wahl, Technical Evangelist at Rubrik, Inc

Chris Wahl, author of the award winning Wahl Network blog and host of the Datanauts Podcast, focuses on creating content that revolves around virtualization, automation, infrastructure, and evangelizing products and services that benefit the technology community. In addition to co-authoring “Networking for VMware Administrators” for VMware Press, he has published hundreds of articles and was voted the "Favorite Independent Blogger" by vSphere-Land three years in a row (2013 – 2015). Chris also travels globally to speak at industry events, provide subject matter expertise, and offer perspectives to startups and investors as a technical adviser.