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is only half the equation – optimizing all the systems that run within it is crucial, from processing to storage to network to application. Our new IT Optimisation streams will provide insight on how IT needs drive data centre strategy and how best to deliver the required infrastructure.


The current and new conference streams from DatacenterDynamics will provide end users with an informed discussion of the


varied landscape of building/not building out their own data center facilities, relying on third-party services, and with technologists who will set out how enterprises can retain direct control of infrastructure assets with the adoption of the latest software and IT advances to maximise bottom-line performance.


NEW DESTINATIONS FOR 2011


Among new destinations for ‘Design-Build- Operate’, ‘Decisions Strategy’ and ‘IT Optimisation’ streams in 2011 is a second


The inaugural conference focusing on ‘Decisions Strategy’ and ‘IT Optimisation’ will take place in Sao Paulo in April 2011. 


event for Russia in St Petersburg, our fi rst visit to Chile to the capital Santiago and our fi rst trip to the outsourcing giant that is India in Mumbai.


Home to the manufacturing plants that produce most of Apple’s iPods, iPhones, iPads, iMacs and notebooks, Shenzhen has been the fastest- growing city in China over the past 30 years.


Issue 13, Dec 10/Jan 11


TORONTO – 13 DECEMBER Paul Greenley


IT Data Center Manager -


Research in Motion Ltd


DOHA – 13 DECEMBER


Abdullah Sultan Al Rashdi


Senior IT Infrastructure Project Manager - Petroleum Development Oman


MUMBAI – 15 FEBRUARY


Anand Vanchi APAC Data


Center Solutions Architect, Intel


Walter Wallace, director of critical properties at the Royal Bank of Canada and Terry Rennaker, director of critical facilities at CB Richard Ellis, will examine innovation in energy-effi cient technologies and explain how to avoid costly mistakes in their deployment.


Kfi r Godrich, CTO of HP mission-critical facilities, will address performance, effi ciency and environmental impact optimization of data center facilities. And Bill Ahrens from Rogers Communications will discuss the virtualized environment and its impact on infrastructure planning, performance


optimization and


effi cient cooling solutions at DCD Toronto, in the US.


In our fi rst conference in Qatar, Abdullah Sultan Al Rashdi from Petroleum Development Oman provides a case study of his enterprize’s recent data center and IT refurbishment, while Ramiz Gabrial, former Qatar chapter ASHRAE president, will demonstrate how to optimize data


center


cooling performance with a thorough analysis of mechanical design and airfl ow.


Covering a popular topic for discussion in the region, Mick Dalton, past Chairman of the British Institute of Facilities Management, sets out a roadmap to minimize operational risks and the essential elements of a disaster recovery strategy.


While India represents the IT and business process outsourcing hub for the world, the question of the reliability of its IT infrastructure


remains a challenge. will As


businesses weigh up maintaining in-house data centers against a fully outsourced IT strategy, the question that


ultimately


be raised in the decision-making process is: “Will low cost outweigh reliability?”


DatacenterDynamics Mumbai will also cover challenges with operating data center facilities in the face of unreliable power infrastructure, a climate that is not conducive to free cooling and the internal pressures to minimize the need for further capital outlay while meeting enterprise needs.


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