The UPTIME @ CRUNCH TIME™ thought leadership initiative is sponsored by the BPM Forum in partnership with BlueArc Corporation. The goal of this collaboration is to promote executive discussions on urgent issues around uninterrupted, high-speed data access and rich media delivery in demanding environments, including business events, operational disruption, or dislocation.

As sponsors, the BPM Forum and BlueArc are committed to building a body of useful knowledge and intellectual capital regarding high performance and availability at critical business inflections. The initiative examines the most urgent issues, imperatives, and challenges in maintaining continuous data uptime, focused on such data-centric sectors as entertainment, oil and gas exploration, pharmaceuticals, electronic discovery, and Internet services—but with the understanding that all industries and markets will soon feel comparable pressures as processing needs and capabilities expand.

BlueArc Corporation - 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. More information is available at www.bluearc.com 

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.

Benuu Group - Bennu Group is the world’s leading business process and performance transformation company. We deliver the business and technology-related insight, tools, methods and training necessary for our clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CEO’s, CIO’s and senior executives in global corporations and government agencies to business leaders and practitioners in financial services, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, automotive and telecom enterprises and professional services firms; we are the first choice and partner with clients throughout the world.

Founded in 2006, we are paving the way for a new generation of agile, efficient and market-aligned businesses that redefine the term “success.” The methods and techniques developed by the Bennu Group are the first of a new generation of business skills that simultaneously deliver on the KPI Triple Crown of Increased Revenues, Decreased Costs and Improved Customer Satisfaction.

Bennu Group is headquartered in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. We firmly believe that to lead change you need to have experienced it first hand and our people have done just that. We understand the politics of change and help at all levels, from the ‘board room to the lunch room’. If your needs include certified training (in-class or online), mentoring, BPM and Performance transformation we should talk. www.bennugroup.net/