PROGRAMME
6th Data Centres Europe 2010
Towards Enterprise Clouds? - Data Centre Services Change, User Requirements, and Sustainability
DAY 1 – 22 April 2010
0900h
Official Opening
French minister - tbc
0910h
Keynote:
Laurent Vernerey, President & CEO IT Business, APC by Schneider Electric
0935h
Special Guest Keynote :
Dr Christian Belady P.E., Principal Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft
1000h
LEADERSHIP CXO ROUNDTABLE
Leadership and Competition: Managing Data Centre Business and Customers
Thought leaders from data centre provider businesses address key issues for future growth and development:
- Managing the changing data centre business environment and evolving customer expectations
- Emerging cloud and its impact on business models
- Competing with Green
- Regional and international competition
Moderator:
Andrew Harrington,
Partner,
AHV Associates LLP
Panellists :
Mike Tobin,
CEO,
TelecityGroup
Eric Schwartz,
President,
Equinix Europe
Speaker tbc,
Interxion
Bernard Geoghegan,
Senior Vice President of International Operations,
Digital Reality Trust
1100h
Networking Break & Exhibition
1130h
STATE OF THE MARKET – REVIEW OF TRENDS AND FORECASTS FOR DATA CENTRES IN EUROPE
- Current trends in demand in data centre markets across Europe, eastern and central Europe
- What has changed and how will this impact data centre strategy and investment?
- Where are the new markets?
- Key dependencies
- Growth forecasts
- Results of new research by BroadGroup
Presentations followed by panel discussion
Steve Wallage, Managing Director,
BroadGroup Consulting
Andrew Jay,
Senior Director,
CB Richard Ellis Ltd Global Corporate Services
Candi Carrera,
Director Client Service Operations,
eBRC
1230h
Enterprise Keynote speaker
Charlie Forte, Vice President, Global Operations and Infrastructure, BP
1300h
Lunch and Exhibition
1400h
Title tbc
Paul-François Cattier, Chair, Data Centre Group France and Vice President France, Benelux & French speaking Africa, APC by Schneider Electric
The Context of Change: Key User Requirements
1420h
PRIVATE CLOUD AND THE IMPACT ON MANAGED SERVICES
The emergence of private cloud has profound implications for data centres and the services they offer.
- What makes private, public, hybrid clouds attractive (or not) to enterprise users?
- Current thinking about cloud services by enterprise users in Europe
- Impact of IaaS deployment on enterprise commercial / IT business models and operations
- Market evolution for hosted services and cloud’s impact on enterprise data centres
Results of new research by BroadGroup
Presentations followed by panel discussion
Marion Howard Healy,
Senior Associate, BroadGroup
Brian Klingbeil,
Managing Director EMEA,
Savvis
Ellen Brigham,
Director of Product Marketing Data Center Products and Solutions,
Juniper Networks
1520h
Networking break and exhibition
1550h
PUBLIC & PRIVATE SECTOR ENTERPRISE PANEL DISCUSSION - Data Centre User Requirements
- Government and public sector :
o Consolidating data centres
o Outsourcing data centres to third parties
o Security requirements
o European Government/US Government attitude to Cloud
- Financial service organisations
o Following market turmoil over the past twelve months, to what extent has the criteria for selecting managed services
changed one year on?
o Has the sector focused shifted to consolidation and cost reduction? If so, how will this impact managed services
- Outsourced Services strategies - How have managed services portfolios adapted to new needs of financial services user organisations?
Panellists include
Roy Shelton,
Managing Director,
H2O Networks
Charlie Forte,
Vice President, Global Operations and Infrastructure,
BP
1700h
RAISING FINANCE, OPTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES, ROI FOR DATA CENTRES
Panel discussion of the opportunities and challenges for investment in data centres and Comparative Analysis of IT Infrastructure outsourcing regionally and internationally.
- The Developer View: How developers approach investment costs in building Data Centres
- Investor Perspective: Why has sentiment changed towards the sector?
- Property View: Is the model changing for Data Centres? What are the constraints?
- Market structure over the next year
Moderator:
Constantinos Shiatis,
Principal Banker,
EBRD, Telecommunications, Media and Technology Team
Panellists include
Guy Wilner,
Chairman,
Palace Investments
1745h
Networking at the Exhibition Floor
1930h
6th Data Centres Europe Awards Ceremony & Dinner
DAY 2 – 23 April 2010
0910h
Special Guest Keynote
Data Centre Capacity Growth and Challenges
Mike Manos, Vice President of Service Operations, Nokia
0940h
DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO STORAGE AND CDN STRATEGIES
As user transactions grow exponentially, the need for viable metrics and rate of growth forecasts is increasing. The implications for
storage and distribution and fibre connectivity represent key challenges. Expert presentations provide insight into planning and implementing
best practice for data centres
Panellists include:
Andreas König, Senior Vice President and General Manager EMEA, NetApp Deutschland GmbH
J. Clifford Gauntlett, Managing Partner, Solent Media Group
Power and Place
1040h
THE ANSWER TO POWER?
Is power now more important than location?
Roy Zeighami, UCS Power and Cooling Architect, Cisco
1100h
Networking Break & Exhibition
1130h
REDUCING DATA CENTRE POWER COSTS
Power for servers and cooling is the ultimate dollar guzzler.
- What are the real practical opportunities to mitigate power consumption in the data centre?
- Are there any Innovations in power and cooling technologies emerging that will truly support a reduction in power consumption?
- How will future power supply impact data centre design now?
Panellists include:
Chad Lamb PhD,
Director of Engineering, XKL
Dr Bruno Michel,
Manager Advanced Thermal Packaging,
IBM Research
Speaker tbc,
APC by Schneider Electric
Setting the Green Agenda for Data Centres
1215h
SUSTAINIBILITY AND THE EUROPEAN CODE OF CONDUCT FOR DATA CENTRES
Many data centre experts from around the globe have been contributing to the European Code of Conduct but this document has just
become part of a United Nations Agency ITU-T SG5 working group. Will we finally have something that we can turn to for worldwide data
centre best practice through the 191 United Nations Member States? Catalina will update us on where this SG5 working group is going
and what we should expect in the very near future.
Catalina McGregor, United Nations Agency ITU-T Liaison Officer to OECD and EC/EU
1230h
SUSTAINABILITY AND GREEN IN THE DATA CENTRE
Almost everyone agrees on the benefits of enhancing computing power while curtailing energy consumption. The greening of data centres represents
a promising opportunity, but whose ever-increasing energy needs continue to result in higher operating costs
- How to achieve more stable energy consumption?
- How will carbon emissions from data centres - projected to quadruple by 2020 – be curtailed?
- How effective are Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and its inverse, Data centre Efficiency (DCE) as benchmarks and is there an alternative?
Panellists include:
Dr Paolo Bertoldi,
Principal Administrator,
European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Pieter Duijves,
Managing Director,
Parthenon Data Centres BV
Rocco Panetta, Partner Panetta & Associati, Rome and Member of the Italian Environmental lmpact Assessment (EIA) Commission
1330h
Lunch and exhibition
Afternoon workshop programme – to be announced shortly