EUROPE

Senior-most executives from leading open-source organisations reveal the profound implications of the changing game (and business). These experts GPS-locate us on the roadmap from vendor-driven, closed, proprietary, monolithic technology to open-sourced, knowledge-community-designed, distributed technology. Why is this important? Cost, transparency, efficiency, agility, speed, performance, and resilience. These expert crowd-sourced innovation engines are rewriting the rulebooks and the economics for the provision of data center and cloud technology services

• Plenary Keynote

With the amount of data being collected, stored and analysed increasing on a daily basis, data centers and their management are becoming even more vital for organisations. How can businesses monitor and manage data more efficiently?

Traditional data center facility is facing multi-faceted challenges that include high CAPEX, high energy consumption, inefficient operation and management, low availability, and other issues. This session will offer practical solutions, showing how Huawei solves these issues through its intelligent data center implementation approach. 

Humidity levels in the data center can cause a real problem whether too high or too low. ASHRAE has set out new guidelines for humidity levels for critical environments. Find out how energy efficiency is affected by higher or lower levels of humidity in your data center, and what practical steps can be taken to manage this.

Late Last year Emerson NP commissioned a survey of over 800 data centre professionals to understand what they believed the future of the data centre would look like.  Simon Brady, head of data centre optimisation at Emerson, will discuss the highlights and explain why the industry will have problems making the dream a reality.

Advanced “third-platform” hyperscale data centers are evolving to consolidating and software defining the full IT stack. This converged SDN, SDS, SDC transformation cuts capital cost, improves utilization of the full infrastructure stack and delivers significant business value, not only in optimizing IT resources but by advancing the competitive nimbleness of the enterprise.

DCIM solutions are too complex and granular. Many vendors are offering DCIM solutions but do not provide guidance on how to implement DCIM, resulting in a lack of adoption of DCIM solutions across various enterprise verticals. This session looks at DCIM deployment, operations and lifecycle management in order to get the most out of the software on offer. What needs to be done to increase real-world implementation?

Economically viable, sustainable heat distribution- how can your data center turn into an energy prosumer?

Examine the various innovations in reusing excess data center heat to generate district heating across various European cities. Hear about the different solutions and innovations from leading implementers.

• Panel Discussion