Conference Description:
Best Practice Forum to Building and Delivering an Effective and Cost-Effective Strategy
The IT industry is facing a serious dilemma: to stay with the co-location option or to build their own. More often than not the end-users find it difficult to see the business case for building their own datacentre with an ever-increasing storage need.
Our conference will provide a unique opportunity of detailed guidelines through the process of making the decision between data co-location or rental and the new build construction of a datacentre, bringing you the latest industry case studies from sophisticated as well as from entry level private and public sector end-users.
IT professionals will get together to discuss technical challenges of migration from data centres and the business case for the cloud. We will bring you the hottest topics, the best speakers in new interactive formats
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You will hear the latest strategy updates from leading executives, including:
Dr Paolo Bertoldi, The European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Wil Cunningham, Disaster Recovery Consultant, Services Delivery, Lloyds TSB
Ian Finlay, Chief Information Officer, Claranet Group
Alan Gray, IT Architect, Project Leader, The Institution Of Engineering and Technology
Mike Gunton, Creative Director of The Natural History Unit, The Executive Producer of the landmark series 'Life', 'Africa' and 'Survival', BBC
Owen Rogers, Doctoral Researcher, The University of Bristol
Andy Lawrence, Research Director, Data Centre Technologies, Eco-efficient IT, The 451 Group
This is the only event that will bring end user thoughts and experience into the focus of the discussions on:
Much needed regulatory proposals and initiatives including inter-operability issues and its impact on end-users' decision to change their service provider
Business needs and specific infrastructure settings vs services and the cloud technology available
How to redistribute hardware from traditional application and how to integrate a traditional setting into the cloud setting
How to reduce the number of applications without business disruption while consolidating data centres
Monitoring the health of your eco friendly infrastructure - how to increase efficiency by improving cooling and ventilation, etc.
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