This one day event is targeted at any delegate whose operations are heavily
reliant on data centres. Delegates will be interested in the business and
IT processes, as well as technologies that can help them improve their data
management and ultimately contribute to their bottom line. The issue of running
an efficient data centre will also be addressed with a particular focus on
technologies that can reduce your electricity bills by cutting the soaring
power and consumption rates prevalent in data centres.
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Richard Dennis, Vice President & National Commissioning Manager, Syska Henessy Group Inc
Richard has over 30 years of professional engineering experience, including design, construction, and facility operations management and commissioning. He supervised critical system upgrades and commissioning activities for many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Mr. Dennis has been involved with the design, construction and commissioning of data centres for the past decade. His past clients include NASDAQ, Salomon Smith Barney, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, IBM, Qwest, Wachovia, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Session: Improving Total Data Centre Reliability through Commissioning
Richard will consider how to gain the most from the critical issue of commissioning
Ed Ansett, Vice President Europe, EYP Mission Critical Facilities
Ed Ansett has a reputation for his specialist knowledge in the reliability of mission critical facilities. With over 20 years experience in the sector, Ed is much sought-after and his opinions are a consistent draw for datacentre experts and novices alike. He has presented numerous original white papers on a broad range of topics from the design of mission critical facilities to the improvement of critical power reliability. Ed Ansett believes in the hands-on approach and keeps his knowledge and thinking fresh both by working as project director for key assignments at EYP Mission Critical Facilities, and through his non-executive board membership roles with Donnelley Simpson Cleary & Oehlers SE Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore) and Donnelley Simpson Cleary & Oehlers (Asia Pacific) Ltd in Hong Kong.
Session: Why do Data Centres Fail?
Ed will ask what can, and does, go wrong with data centres, and use his expert
knowledge to highlight common points of failure.
Geoff Prudence,
Head of Facilities Management Services, Essex County Council
Chair of BIFM Data Centre Network Group
Chair of CIBSE Facilities Management Group
Geoff Prudence is Head of Facilities Management Services for Essex County Council. He has an engineering background and experience in Building Maintenance, Operations, Facilities Management Strategy and implementation, working in both private and public sector organisations. He is Chairman of CIBSE Facilities Management Group, and now also chairs the BIFM Data Centre Network group.
Session: Engineering Service Risk Management – A culture perspective
Geoff will be considering the human aspects of achieving service
levels.
Colin Everett
Head of IT strategy and architecture at Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets
Session: Coping with the Increasing Demand for Data Storage and Computing
Power
Colin will talk about the company's new facility at 10 Gresham Street
in the City of London and how Lloyds organised its data management to cope
with increasing demand and to meet the needs of its traders.
Andy Ebbs, Senior Account Manager, Double-Take Software
In a career spanning more than fifteen years, Andy Ebbs has been involved
with Windows based networks since their inception. For the past 7 years he
has been designing solutions with data replication and high availability software.
In his role as senior account manager, Andy has acquired un-paralleled hands-on
problem solving experience within real organisational data storage and continuity
scenarios.
Session: A Practical Guide to Developing the Right DR Plan for 2007
These days, disaster recovery and complete data protection requires
a lot more than shipping tapes offsite. However, implementing a system to
protect your business critical data doesn’t have to be a daunting task.
There are several cost effective, easy-to-install, software solutions to ensure
that your business critical applications will perform as required in the event
of an unplanned outage.
Kevin O’Brien
Executive Vice President of Structure Tone Mission Critical
Kevin began his career as manager of design and construction for Bear Sterns
where he was responsible for all data centres. and now has global responsibility
for the mission critical division of Structure Tone. Mr. O’Brien is
active in 7x24 Exchange, the Association for Computer Operations Managers
(AFCOM), and the US Green Buildings Council. He is a graduate of Central Florida
University with a BS degree in mechanical engineering and also holds an associate’s
degree in applied science and environmental control technology.
Session: High Density Deployment, the Impact on Cost, Schedule and
Construction
This session will analyse the impact on project schedule, project budget,
facility footprint, equipment lead times, engineering, and quirks experienced
when you make the decision to surpass 4Kw per cabinet in load.
Ciaran Flanagan
Datacentre Solutions Manager, Intel
Ciaran runs the Datacentre Solutions team for Intel Solution Services in EMEA engaging with Intel’s customers who are working to address data centre utilisation and IT Infrastructure strategy programmes. The group is chartered to help enterprise customers optimise their data centre assets and the portfolio of services is based on a supply and demand approach. Specifically the team supports customers in data centre selection, design and risk planning, environmentally responsible computing strategies and asset efficiency through virtualisation and automation.
Session: Data Centre Efficiency
Zahl Limbuwala
Chairman BCS Data Centre Specialist Group
Session: The ‘Greening’ of the Data Centre
Zahl has held a number of operational management and strategic planning roles
with the managed services/service provider world. Zahl has been involved with
the evolution of the data centre from the initial engineering approach to
the slightly more scientific approach that's taken nowadays.
Zahl founded the DCSG after having spent a number of years unsuccessfully
trying to find a forum through which data centre skills, experience and best
practices could be shared.
Lee Bonham
Director, World-Wide Solutions, Technology Solutions Group
Hewlett-Packard
Session: HP - IT transformation, what we are going through - case
study
Lee is responsible for developing HP’s showcase solutions portfolio
to meet emerging customer needs and for taking these solutions to market.
He works with HP Business Units to enhance the solutions portfolio and supports
customers across the globe by helping them identify the requirements and benefits
for new solutions projects.
Lee specializes in solutions for data centers, IT consolidation, enterprise risk management and IT service management. He has worked with HP’s internal IT organization and has advised at CIO level on IT strategy and governance. Lee has many years of experience and has helped numerous clients identify key issues, deploy best practices and build implementation plans.
Prior to this role Lee has been a business manager and consulting manager
in HP. Before working for HP Lee held a range of consulting, marketing and
management roles in IBM.
Lee holds a Master of Business Administration degree from London Business
School and a bachelor’s degree from Birmingham University in the UK.
Tony
Day BSc DipArch (Hons) RIBA, Chief Engineer, APC
A chartered architect and mechanical engineer with wide design and management experience in both engineering and construction industries, Tony joined Waterfields as technical director in 1999 and was responsible for the planning and design of over 3 million square feet of data centre facilities including major sites in London, Cambridge, Paris and Amsterdam. In June 2000 he was appointed managing director of a new Waterfields subsidiary, tecnikon Limited, formed to develop prefabricated and preassembled data centres. Tony moved with the company when it was acquired by i-age Projects Limited in April 2001, where he was responsible for the patented tecnikon Autonomous Cabinet System (ACS) which received a UK Government DTI SMART Award for technical innovation in March 2003. Tony joined APC in May 2003 following APC’s acquisition of tecnikon.
