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BPM Forum and BlueArc Launch Milestone Uptime @ Crunch Time(TM) Thought Leadership Program Around Data Performance Issues and Strategies
(Market Wire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) PALO ALTO, CA, September 12 / MARKET WIRE/ --
The Business Performance Management
Forum,(TM) in partnership with BlueArc, today announced the launch of a new
thought leadership initiative, Uptime @ Crunch Time,(TM) that will inform
and support the ability of vertical industries to meet growing demands for
data performance, availability, and resilience, especially at times of
peaking business demand. The new strategic program will foster
information exchange, relevant resources and real-world examples as
captured on the new web site www.uptimeatcrunchtime.com.
Guided by an advisory board of storage visionaries and innovators, the
initiative will play a vital educational role, engaging the marketplace
with executive dialogs, online surveys, white paper content, resource
links, executive commentary, and market facts.
"We're confident that the Uptime @ Crunch Time program will yield new
insight and perspectives into the issues, imperatives, challenges, and
successes in maintaining continuous data uptime in critical business
scenarios," said Donovan Neale-May, Executive Director of the BPM Forum.
"Our goal is to ensure that burgeoning data remains a vital resource rather
than a liability, fueling competitiveness and healthy growth in a wide
range of industries."
Challenge of Crunch Time White Paper
The Uptime @ Crunch Time site includes access to a new strategic overview
white paper, "The Challenge of Crunch Time: Valuing the Need for Data Speed
at Critical Business Inflections" (available at
http://www.uptimeatcrunchtime.com/resources.php). The piece takes a look
at obstacles and opportunities for companies to cope with the fact that
peak business performance is inextricably tied to seamlessly handling
sudden spikes in user demand and carrying out impressive feats of data
throughput.
Landmark "Need for Data Speed" Executive Survey
The Uptime program is also launching a seminal survey (available at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=K8vcm3E5j6_2bA1ZrN4tjvMQ_3d_3d) to
poll hundreds of CIOs, senior IT professionals and business line executives
in high-load, data-intensive industries that are being affected most by the
data crunch. The survey explores strategic applications driving the need
for data storage performance along with issues and opportunities in
data-critical industries as influencers self-assess their capacity to scale
and drive business performance at critical inflections.
"I'm very excited about this program, and expect it to be a high-value
informational asset for all those involved," says Steve Daheb, BlueArc
senior vice president of marketing and business development. "There is a
tremendous need right now to share and quantify information. The data
avalanche is not an 'evolving' or 'emerging' issue -- it's on top of us
right now, and the stakes couldn't be higher. The future viability and
growth of many companies rest on their strategic choices around ways to
handle uptime issues."
About Uptime @ Crunch Time
UPTIME @ CRUNCH TIME(TM) is A BPM Forum Authority Leadership Campaign in
Partnership with BlueArc Corporation, committed to promoting program and
industry study with media and vertical association partners in sectors
where data processing is critical to both the survival and success of
operations. The program's goal is to escalate executive discussions and
sensitize the market to the critical imperatives for uninterrupted,
high-speed access to critical data during high-demand business events,
operational disruption, or dislocation.
About the BPM Forum
The Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum is dedicated to advancing
performance accountability, process improvement, operational visibility and
compliance in global organizations. It provides support to thousands of
senior executives and practitioners representing enterprises with more than
$500 billion in combined annual revenues. The BPM Forum's C-level members
engage in research, thought leadership, and knowledge exchange programs
around a variety of strategic issues and challenges. More information is
available at: www.BPMForum.org.
About BlueArc
BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage
systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as
electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education,
Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Our products support both
network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN,
services on a converged network storage platform.
We enable companies to expand the ways they explore, discover, research,
create, process and innovate in data-intensive environments. Our products
replace complex and performance-limited products with high performance,
scalable and easy-to-use systems capable of handling the most data
intensive applications and environments. Further, we believe that our
energy efficient design and our products' ability to consolidate legacy
storage infrastructures, dramatically increases storage utilization rates
and reduces our customers' total cost of ownership. Information about
BlueArc systems and services can be found at http://www.bluearc.com/.
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Media Contact:
Derek Kober
BPM Forum
650-433-4233Email Contact
Louis Gray
BlueArc Corporation
408-576-6684Email Contact
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