Learn how to keep your business up if a tornado or flood take you down - PART 2!

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/5/5/0/600_452773648.jpeg

Learn how to keep your business up if a tornado or flood take you down - Part 2!

Are natural disasters a risk to your business? Do you want to learn how to mitigate those risks and maintain business continuity? Do you want to see and use the IT solutions and Disaster Recovery Services enterprise businesses use to be resilient and avoid downtime? If you answered yes to any of these questions, please join us at the first of many CenturyLink Lebanon Users Group meet up on July 20 at the Lebanon Civic Center. At this months meet up we're going to practice using the CenturyLink Cloud to set up a resilient cloud environment and we'll have a special presentation about Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity where Bob Stolzberg will share info on how to keep your business up if a natural disaster takes you down.

What will I learn from the presentation?
• The right questions to ask to identify risk to your business with focus on technology
• Steps to start or update a Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity plan
• What goes in to a good Disaster Recovery + Business Continuity plan
• Disaster Recovery best practices
• What technology solutions big business is using to avoid downtime

At the end of this presentation you will have a better understanding of how to create or update a DR plan, what technology solutions businesses use and more valuable info to help avoid downtime.

What will I practice at the Meet Up?
Bring your laptop and be prepared to practice:
• Create a multi-data center cloud-based architecture according to best practices
• Deploy workloads to the cloud using automation
• Automatically scale servers
• Architect a multi-cloud solution

Join us to learn how to identify and mitigate risks to your business as well as create a resilient, diverse cloud-based architecture that scales on demand.

CloudWalk Agenda and Lesson Plan:
• 4:00 - 4:30pm - Arrive, Food, Drinks and Conversation
• 4:30 - 5:30pm - CenturyLink Cloud Platform overview with hands-on Exercises: Create an environment and deploy applications through automation inside CenturyLink Cloud
• 5:30 - 6:30pm - "How to keep your business up if a tornado or flood take you down" - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity presentation
• 6:30 - 7:00pm - Q&A, Networking, Raffle

Instructor:

Bob Stolzberg, Principal Engineer @ CenturyLink - Bob is a St. Louis-based Principal Engineer on the Cloud Team. In this role, Bob works with CenturyLink's Ecosystem Partners to integrate their technology with the CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace and evangelize the technology with the community. Bob has served as a subject matter expert in the areas of Cloud technology and DRBC for the past several years and has more than 17 years of engineering experience in the IT industry.

FAQ

• What's the location?
  Lebanon Civic Center
  500 E. Elm St.
  Lebanon, MO 65536

• What time does it run?
  4pm - 7pm

• Will food and beverages be provided? What about giveaways?
  Yes, of course! We'll be raffling off special prizes at this meet up: A fully loaded crossbow package or family vacation to Silver Dollar city. And you can register for our July Grand Prize: choice of fully loaded Mathews Halon bow or Family vacation to Disney. #seriously!

• What should I bring to the event?
  Bring your Laptop! We'll provide you with free Wifi, a CenturyLink Cloud demo account, and everything you need to practice. We're expecting you to be engaged and follow along with our hands-on live tutorial.

• Can I invite some friends or coworkers?
  Sure! But we need them to register, too.