Intro - Datacenter Today Congress

Building on the success of previous years, DatacenterToday is back in Brussels for the sixth year in succession.  The DatacenterToday Conference & Expo has positioned itself in recent years as the largest gathering of professionals working on the design, building and management of 24/7 Mission Critical IT facilities – from the datacentre to the LAN box.   A unique event where education and networks converge. This year, we expect to see over 300 professionals.   Virtualization of storage-server-desktops, as well as converging applications, concentration and green IT resulted in a constantly changing face for the modern, efficient data centre in 2009.   Gartner predicts that the role of the datacentre manager will become even more difficult in 2010. Problems relating to energy, space and technology will have even more impact on the costs and management of a datacentre.   The datacentre manager is still worried about a bill-shock from the electricity company: that fear is greater than the interest in a smart grid. Green IT and the pressure to cut carbon emissions are gradual changes that will force a migration from the current datacentre to a green(er) datacentre: will it be an evolution or a swap?   The impact of blade servers, virtualisaton, the enormous increase in storage and in general, the demand for more power per rack forms a range of hot spots in the datacentre that the climate control can no longer handle. “Less is more?” But how do I deal with that in the next 5 years?     How can I meet the demand for reducing complexity with the requirement for greater flexibility? “Measurement is knowledge” will definitely be applied in a more concrete way in 2010, to achieve better management, more supervision and permanent monitoring of the main parameters of a data centre: power-cooling-space, as well as security, capacity management, storage, ….   Our programme will keep results-driven datacenter professionals informed about the latest strategies and developments to help them tackle the major challenges facing the datacenter industry in the next 5 years.

 

 

The successful programme was drawn up with feedback from end-users, and is mainly aimed at energy-efficiency, convergence and consolidation, monitoring & control and impact of new applications.

 

These themes are now the basis from which other topics will be explored.

 

• Green IT based upon Energy Efficiency: power and cooling
• Consolidation and Virtualization: for servers, storage and desktops
• The Impact of Regulations & Risks, of Compliancy & Standards: GRC in reality
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: impact from any datacenter
• How to stay in control of all monitoring, supervision and management tools?

• C-level management: CEO, CIO, CTO, CFO
• Senior executives: Head of Infrastructure, Head of Enterprise Architecture,
• Head of Facilities, Head of IT, Head of HVAC
• Management: Facilities, data centre, operations, buildings/property
• Consultants: Consulting Engineers, IT Consultants, Infrastructure Consultants

 

is an event series set out to explore the new services and technologies that are driving change within the enterprise data centre, focusing on the design and management of mission critical facilities. We have created a global platform for debate and knowledge sharing for every individual working within the enterprise and service provider data center.

 

• One date: Thursday 1rst April 2010
• One day– from 9.00 to 16.00 followed by a networking closing cocktail
  And contacts with the partners of the congress
• 8 presentations