London. United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - February 1, 2008 - Data Centre World is an exhibition and conference focusing on the data center sector, to examine the issues surrounding selecting, outsourcing, building and running a data center, scheduled to take place February 26-27, at the Barbican in London, United Kingdom.
Data center industry professionals are preparing to gather to take participate and engage in discussions with Richard Barrington, of Sun Microsystems, Boris Anderer, of Reldata, Mike Bursell, of Certicom, Paul Cave, of Honeywell Control Systems, Richard Clark, of Raritan, Tony Day, of The Green Grid, Barry Elliott, of Connectix, Mark Fieldhouse, of IBM, Anthony Foy, of Interxion, Rick Gillett, of F5, Carrie Higbie, of Siemon, Ken Hodge, of Brand-Rex, Adrian Jones, of lack Box, Chris Leahy, of Tyco Electronics UK Ltd., Owen McKee, of Avocent, David Palmer-Stevens, of Panduit, Craig Parker, of BT, Eddie Partridge, of atitude UK, James Peel, of Altinity, Bob Plumridge, of Hitachi Data Systems / SNIA-Europe and Michael Winterson, of Equinix, among many other companies.
The event is for the professionals involved in the management of data centres including:
- IT decision makers within organisations who operate or plan to operate a data centre/server farm
- Third party data centre operators
- Distributors and channel partners
- Companies involved in the design, build and maintenance of data centres
- Chief Information and Technology Officers
- IT DirectorData Centre Manager
- Datacentre facilities managers and engineers
- Information Technology and Infrastructure Managers
- Network Manager
- Network, Cabling and Communication Engineers and Integrators
- Storage planners
- Asset Managers
- System Manager
- System Security Manager
- CEO/MD/Chairman/Partner/Owner
- FinanceDirector
- Project Manager
- Purchasing Manager/Corporate Buyer
- Facilities/Premises Director/manager
- Architects, Design Build Consultants
The free-to-attend conference will cover case studies, technical implementation papers; migration issues and scalability. The conference is designed to include companies that host server rooms in house or outsource datacentre requirements, featuring practical advice on how to improve efficiency and overcome integration and storage issues including:
- Mitigating risks resulting from power failure
- Methods for shielding VoIP vulnerabilities from attack whilst maintaining operations
- Remote management
- Outsourcing the case for and against
- FANs are they the next generation answer to storage problems?
- Connectivity - data centre cabling re-design and construction
- Cooling options water cooling? better data centre design? How to overcome the heat issues.
- Physical security is as important as virtual security.
- What are the latest options and how can they be implemented?
- Next generation datacentre design
- Virtualization
The Barbican Centre is the largest multi-arts centre in Europe, featuring art, film, music, theatre, dance and education all under one roof and under one creative direction. The Centre comprises the 1,949 seat Barbican Hall, the 1,166-seat Barbican Theatre, the 200-seat Pit theatre, 3 cinemas, the 1,393 m2 Barbican Art Gallery, a 2nd gallery; The Curve, 4,645m2 of foyers and public spaces, the Lakeside Terrace, a roof-top tropical conservatory, 7 conference suites, 2 trade exhibition halls, private function rooms and the 3 restaurants; Searcy's, Waterside Cafe; and Balcony Bistro.
To learn more about DataCentreWorld Conference, please visit: www.datacentreworld.com.
