Business resilience is becoming a primary driver of hybrid infrastructure adoption. Organizations are recognizing that resilient business operations depend not only on protecting data but also on ensuring critical workloads can be recovered and executed wherever needed. Cyber resilience is no longer about recovering systems. It is about preserving business outcomes by rapidly restoring clean, trusted data and the workloads that depend on it.
Today's threat landscape requires organizations to rethink their approach to business continuity. This session will explore how leading organizations are strengthening business and cyber resilience by protecting their most critical digital assets: their data. We will discuss why the question is no longer if your organization will experience a cyber incident, but when, and why many security leaders now operate under the assumption that they may already be compromised. In this environment, the ability to rapidly identify, protect, and recover clean, trusted data becomes one of the most important determinants of business survival. As resilience requirements continue to increase, many organizations are adopting hybrid infrastructure strategies that provide greater control over where critical data and workloads reside, while enabling the flexibility to move and recover them across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments when disruptions occur.
We will also review successful resilience strategies deployed by other organizations, highlighting how modern enterprises are using hybrid infrastructure to build resilient recovery architectures that protect data and workloads while maintaining business operations during cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, and other unexpected disruptions.
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Speaker: Terry Buchanan - ITI Inc.
Field CTO, Hybrid Infrastructure, Principal Technology Advisor Ontario-Atlantic
Having taken a Computer Diploma in Basic Programing at age 12, Terry has always shown a strong passion for technology. A native of Halifax, N.S., Terry brings over 30 years of IT experience in the enterprise and mid-market. Prior to ITI, he has held senior leadership positions as General Manager, VP Digital Transformation, VP Technology, Managing Director Professional Services, Vice President and CTO. At ITI, as Field CTO, he collaborates on strategic initiatives with clients in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, leading OEMs and ITI technology experts to solve for business outcomes across Canada.
He holds multiple technical certifications, most notably he was the 187th global high achiever of the SNIA Certified Storage Networking Expert (SCSN-E) and is the first to be certified worldwide as a Nutanix Certified Sales Expert (NCSX). He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s University, CIO MBA program completion from Boston University and a Professional Management diploma from Ontario Tech University. For nearly 12 years, Terry has served on multiple North American Partner Advisory boards and has been consulting on Business Continuity for over 20 years.
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