To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (10801 ) 3/25/2003 12:13:30 PM From: Ms. Baby Boomer Respond to of 14451 Connected Introduces Executive Seminar Series: Solving the Storage Equation FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2003-- Industry Leaders including Gartner, Intel and Iron Mountain Discuss How to Intelligently Manage More Data with Automated Protection and Off-Site Storage Connected(TM) Corporation, the market-leading provider of PC data protection solutions, today announced that it will host a seminar series tour titled, "Solving the Storage Equation," which will focus on reducing enterprise storage requirements. The seminar, which visits San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Boston and Washington D.C. in April and May, features executive panelists from Gartner (NYSE: ITB), Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR), Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC), Grant Thornton, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), Experio Solutions and Connected. Panelists will discuss the benefits of automated PC data protection and secure, off-site data storage. The demands on data center servers are increasing. In fact, a recently published report projects that enterprise storage needs will increase by a factor of seven over the next three years (Strategic Research Corporation, 2002). CIOs and IT management, struggling to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their organizations, have been left with few options in their efforts to control costs and drive productivity. This seminar series will address how PC-based storage can solve network storage capacity problems at a much lower cost to corporations than traditional centralized storage approaches. "With the increasing amount of emails and other corporate documents that need to be stored, the information assets needed to manage a business have driven enterprise storage demands through the roof," said Bob Brennan, CEO for Connected. "This seminar provides perspective from well-respected industry leaders on how to effectively take advantage of the unused storage resources on PCs -- to save on costs and ensure that corporate data is automatically protected and efficiently stored." Following is the complete tour schedule for the "Solving the Storage Equation" seminar series: -- San Francisco, CA, April 2, 2003 at 6:00 pm, The W Hotel Featured Panelists: Rich Mogull, Director of Research for Gartner Joe Gruber, Director for Intel Bob Brennan, CEO for Connected Dean Drougas, CIO for Silicon Graphics...newsalert.com