Petter Sveum has been designing, building and working with data protection, high availability and disaster recovery architectures and strategies for 20 years. He started his career with the Norwegian Military at their Head Quarters of Defense in 1995, before joining Veritas Software (later Symantec) as a consultant in 2001. As a consultant he worked with a series of Symantec customers across Europe, in a variety of industries, including Financial Institutions, Telcos, Service Providers, Governmental and Public Institutions and organizations in the Energy and Health Care sectors. He currently leads the Information Availability Technology Practice for Symantec in EMEA, which includes advising Symantec customers throughout EMEA on solving complex high availability and disaster recovery challenges and the adoption of new storage and availability technologies and architectures.