IDC Storage Roadshow 2006 Use Your Memory: EU Policies and Storing Data in the New Europe Roadshow Bucharest May 09, 2006 | Budapest May 16, 2006 | Wien May 17, 2006 Zagreb May 18, 2006 | Prague May 23, 2006 | Belgrade May 25, 2006 Kyiv May 30, 2006 | Ljubljana June 06, 2006 | Sofia June 15, 2006 Tel Aviv July 11, 2006 | Moscow October 10, 2006

The addition of eight new CEE states to the EU is still sending waves of change through the businesses and governments of these countries. EU funding for SMEs, open borders, new tax structures, and surges in client and potential client data means organizations will continue to upgrade systems and purchase new hardware solutions. Outside the EU, countries are adopting similar rules both to appease international businesses and prepare for eventual accession.

Including storage. In fact, changing regulations on data almost ensures the continued development of solutions. For instance, in December 2005, EU lawmakers passed statutes placing new data retention requirements on telcos and Internet service providers. Over the next 18 months to three years (when the laws are likely to take effect), telcos and ISPs will need to retool or upgrade systems to be in compliance with the new measures.

• Data Laws and Storage Systems
• The Market Responds to Data Retention Laws – IDC Keynote
• Implementing and Enforcing the New Laws: Why, How, When – European Commission
• New Laws and the New Member States – Local Government Viewpoint
• Keep It, but Don't Read It! – Legal Aspects, Privacy, and the New Retention Laws
• Handling the Data Flood: Life-Cycle Management and the Information Influx
• Where Do I Put It? Tiered Storage and Data Classification
• Where the Heck Is It? Searching for Content
• Improve Your Current Memory: Virtual Computing for Tight Budgets
• Safe Now, Safe Tomorrow: Continuous Data Protection
• The Best Technologies in Data Protection
• It Has Been Lost and It Is Going to Cost You – the Price of Losing Data
• Keeping it Straight: Storage Resource Management
• Data Center Intelligence – What Does the Future Hold?
• The Evolution of the Data Center – What Works, What Doesn’t
• Technological Innovation and the Changing the Data Center

• What are the obligations on IT practitioners for compliance and what planning metrics should we use for infrastructure investment?

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