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In today's WordPress world we subcontract the management of our data to multiple organisations which in turn hold our data in multiple locations. This means our data is exposed to an event which impacts any one of those organisations and/or locations. We owe it to our users, whose details we keep in trust, to mitigate the impact of any such event. This talk discusses how we can do that and asks the question.... Are you ready for the Zombie Apocalypse?
* About the speaker:
Dave Potter is a project manager, primarily managing IT projects. He has been working in IT since 1977, in management and consultancy for about 35 years and have experience in most IT roles (developer, database administrator, systems programmer, etc...). This includes managing computer operations and technical support at a number of financial institutions.
He can be contacted at...
email: dave@mainplus.co.uk
twitter: @MainplusUK
His website where you can find his ramblings is: http://mainplus.co.uk
