Most senior infrastructure people can describe what they would do with their file estate if they started over. Far fewer will admit what they actually did — the temporary VPN that became permanent, the NAS that outlived two migration plans. A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October is designed to draw out those honest stories, with attendees speaking under the Chatham House Rule so names stay in the room.
The agenda starts with governance and security: how to keep control of unstructured data spread across offices and home connections, and whether current setups hold up against today's threats. The conversation then moves to cost and performance, including the duplicated storage that accumulates when every team keeps its own copy, and the impact on people who just need the right file.
Joe Fay of The Register chairs the evening, with Rupert Watson, VP for EMEA at LucidLink, at the table to answer questions. The event is sponsored by LucidLink, and attendance is by invitation only, with drinks at 6.30pm and dinner following at The Soho Hotel. The source notes that the useful material is the kind nobody puts in a case study — such as who still had VPN access months after leaving, or which team quietly set up its own sync service because the official route was too slow.