The data centre is the organisation. Without data there really is nothing - just imagine trying to work without information. It is the vital core of all operations, and getting it right provides reassurance and a competitive edge.
The Data Centre Excellence Conference offers you advice on getting the optimum performance from your data centres - for today's environment and tomorrow's, from people to power, the Conference covers all your needs.
Sessions include information and advice on:
The Planning (Getting the commissioning right, and gaining
advantage from it)
The People (Your data centre is only as good as the
people who design and use it, so be sure you know your human factors,
and create the right culture)
The Project (How a financial giant dealt with the issues
of ever increasing power and data needs)
The Power (How can we deal with increasing demand, keep
reliability and yet stop our centres overheating?)
The Problems (Why do data centres fail? and how you
can avoid the pitfalls)
The Panel (Today environmental issues have helped shape
data centre strategy, and tomorrow they could dominate. Our panel discuss
the issues and implications of being green and still being able to be
reliable and resilient).
The programme includes coffee, tea and biscuits for intervals and a buffet lunch with networking opportunities. A drinks reception follows at the close of sessions.
About the Programme
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.
Kevin O’Brien
Executive Vice President of Structure Tone Mission Critical
Technology advances by IT Equipment manufactures have resulted in equipment
that produce heat loads within data centers that are unprecedented. The
myriad of choices of cooling solutions combined with the impact on every other
facet of the data center infrastructure has left both IT and Facilities managers
confused. Traditional cooling, modified air cooling, water cooled cabinets,
and other solutions all advertise they can provide the solution, but how
do these solutions fit your budget and project plan. 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. We will show budget and schedule implications
and lessons learned from building actual high density applications.
Session: Why do Data Centres Fail?
Ed Ansett,
VP of EYP Mission Critical Facilities for Europe
Ed will ask what can, and does, go wrong with data centres, and use his expert knowledge to highlight common points of failure. His session will ask:
Session: Coping with the Increasing Demand for Data Storage and Computing Power
Colin Everett
Head of IT strategy and architecture at Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets
In June 2005, Lloyds TSB leased a new building at 10 Gresham Street to create a London HQ for its rapidly growing Corporate Markets Division. The building went live in July 2006 and provides state of the art dealing room and IT facilities. Extensive use has been made of blade technologies for both application server farms and dealer workstations. This has created a dealing room free from the usual workstation problems, and which is supported by a carefully designed data centre.
Colin will talk about the company's new facility and how it organised its data management to cope with increasing demand and to meet the needs of its traders. Tom will touch on issues such as:
Session: Engineering Service Risk Management - A culture perspective Head of Facilities
Geoff Prudence
Head of Facilities Management Services, Essex County Council;
Chair of BIFM Data Centre Network Group
Chair of CIBSE Facilities Management Group
Geoff will be considering the human aspects of achieving a resilient centre.
Session: Improving Total Data Centre Reliability through Commissioning
Richard Dennis, Vice President & National Commissioning Manager, Syska Henessy Group Inc
Richard will consider how to gain the most from the critical issue of commissioning
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: Tales from the Chip
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.
Session: The ‘Greening’ of
the Data Centre
