Enterprise Data Centres

Throughout 2008 a number of enormous changes are sweeping IT Infrastructure, Operations & the Data Centre. Virtualisation. Mass mobility. Shifting business goals. Consolidation. Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Environmental issues. And that’s just a few. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
FST Europe will Focus on the demands on Infrastructure and how they continue to grow. Not only do orgainisations need to deliver faster and cheaper IT infrastructure, they need to be an agile organisation that can respond and adapt to rapidly changing business needs and technology innovation.
With the combination of Analysts, Datacenter Specialists, Industry leaders and leading vendors, FST Europe will review how CIOs are focusing on operations and infrastructure management, partly because it is the largest component of the IT budget.
FST Europe will explore both architectural and infrastructure considerations including: real estate; power and cooling; energy efficiency; physical and digital security; going green; regulatory requirements; and outsourcing.
Nearly every enterprise IT organization has its sights set on tightly aligning the IT function with overall business goals. This approach enables the IT organization to proactively address strategic mandates to lower costs, drive revenue and mitigate risk.

Topics under Discussion:

• Leveraging data technology to help drive business innovation.
• The road map to where? Evaluating the needs of tomorrow’s Business-Critical infrastructure in data centres.
• The benefits of data centre consolidation and how to build and manage a data centre effectively.
• Maximizing data protection in the Financial Services Sector.
• Managing Network-critical physical infrastructure to ensure availability and agility.
• Maximizing floor space in new and existing data centres.
• How to improve energy efficiency in data centres that requires a fundamental review on how IT components can consume power.
• The challenge to secure enough power to support the rising number of servers the datacentre can handle when using blades.
• Green computing – the future of data centres.

Contributors:

• Michelle Bailey – Research VP, Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends, IDC
• John Humphreys – Program VP Enterprise Platform Group, IDC
• Richard Jones – VP & Practice Lead, Burton Group’s
• John Botega – Chief Data Officer, Citigroup
• David Lister – CIO, Reuters

Neil Cameron – CIO, Unilever