Pat Hanavan is the Vice President of Product Management of the Symantec's Data and Systems Management business unit. These products are essential for effective disaster recovery implementation. As the industry leaders in their respective categories, Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery are regularly awarded by users and publications for their innovations, ease of use and performance. Prior to his product management responsibilities, Pat was responsible for the Backup Exec engineering team for many years and was a major contributor to driving technology innovations in collaboration with key partners. The technology innovations within VERITAS' products were in the areas of SAN based backup solutions, disk based data protection methods, open file protection and alternate backup methods. Hanavan was also a founding member and active contributor to the company's Patent Filter Committee, and is a Symantec inventor as well. Less   View all posts

Over the course of his 15 year career with SunGard, Bill DiMartini has worked closely with both IT and business leaders to address their business continuity needs and challenges, making him very effective at bridging the gap between business problems and technology solutions. As Senior Vice President, he oversees a team of nearly 200 business continuity experts working in the field with end users to help them develop and implement their information availability strategies – representing more than 400 customer engagements annually. Prior to joining SunGard, Bill served as a Records Manager and Business Continuity Manager for a large insurance carrier. He was also a Legislative Information Specialist for the US House of Representatives and Information Technology Analyst for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Less   View all posts