09:00 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Address

ECO AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY

09:05 A Case Study On Data Centres Consolidation

• Goals and timelines for the consolidation project and how to avoid business disruption
• Stages of the consolidation project and resources involved
• Practical examples of reducing the number of applications
• Achieved results and savings

09:35 Panel Discussion: Monitoring The Health of Your Eco Friendly Infrastructure To Ensure It Is Robust, Flexible and Scalable

• Potential issues around eco efficiency?
• Who needs to monitor the infrastructure and who is doing it today?
• How is it done now and can it be done better?
• The number of monitoring points
• Latency and the weight on the system issue
• Trade off between speed and risk
• What should be done to prevent the system going off the cliff?
• Response-type issues
• Prediction of latency variation: how many dimensions do you have to analyse?
• Different types of scenarios depending on your strategy

Panel Discussion With Participation Of Session Speakers

10.15 Best Practice Experience Of Reducing Operational And Transformational Costs In Storing Data

• Business transformation opportunities using storage virtualisation
• Relocate or not to relocate?
• What are the best locations to go to?
• What efficiencies can be made without effecting performance?

10:45 Best Practice Examples of Monitoring Energy Efficiency Of Your Data Centre

• What are the most efficient ways to improve energy efficiency in data centres and what improvement actions can be taken
• What key performance indicators should you be tracking?
• How can you evaluate the improvement?
• Understanding when and how to intervene/refine your initial strategy and maximise the result
• Case study examples exploring deployment of different solutions

Andy Lawrence
Research Director, Datacenter Technologies, Research Director, Eco-efficient IT
The 451 Group

11:45 How Can You Turn Your Data Centre Into The Cloud Without Loosing Quality?

• What is the business case for the switch to the cloud?
• Setting up clear directions for a big change and a step-by-step guidance on how to evaluate a specific offering
• What should end-users know to understand the whole process of the switch to the cloud to make an informed decision - focusing on the degree of control you have to implement
• Specific requirements and how to include them into your evaluation
• Examples of sketching out the data flow, while deciding on a particular offering
• Re-architecturing issue and its impact on the bottom line
• The quality of management in the cloud in business critical situations
• Flexibility issues in changing from one cloud provider to another and the lack of application mobility between cloud services suppliers
• The lack of standards and applications incompatibility – how your business can overcome these issues?
• Practical recommendations based on multiple experience and lessons learnt
• Processes and stages of the switch to the latest technology

Ian Finlay
CIO
Claranet Group

12:20 Data Protection And Cloud Computing: Tough Hurdle And Prerequisite

EU data protection directives require substantial considerations regarding protection of personal data.

National data protection laws have enacted the requirements in EU member states. Cloud computing solutions could face limitation in case of personal data to be processed outside EU.

14:00 A Case Study On How To Increase Efficiency By Improving Cooling And Ventilation in A Data Center

• How to choose the technology that is most appropriate for your company?
• How to get the utmost of DX and central chiller systems, HVAC overheads, etc.
• The hot aisle-cold aisle concept
• Air versus water cooling options: which works best Simple energy saving techniques and recommendations
• Is there a business case in advanced air economiser systems?

Chris Scott
Data Centre Site And Facilities Area Leader
IBM North East Europe

14:30 A Case Study on Efficiencies Made In A Co-Located Data Centre

• Challenges of running a collocated data centre
• An investment business case: how much can you save on property, hardware and operational support
• How can you make fully-managed services work for you?
• Access when you need it issue

15:30 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

Network With Your Peers From Across Europe And Find Out What They Did Once But Wouldn’t Do Again

Hear the latest news and discuss the latest plans with key experts from different industry sectors. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to expand and maintain contacts with the most important executives in the industry - the true decision makers! These contacts will later convert into business deals and long term partnerships.

According to our delegates and speakers, roundtable discussions are the most important and valuable networking opportunities they get. During this session you and your colleagues will:

• Join several round table discussions hosted by senior IT executives
• Move from table to table - to ensure you have covered all key decision makers
• Establish personal contacts with all those key executives, who are or will shortly become your competitors, clients or partners
• Hear about what your competitors are doing in leading hubs across Europe
• Get new information essential to your business
• Ensure that you are front of mind in the boardroom of every big client across Europe

Roundtable 1. Cloud Security

Roundtable 2: Process And Engineering Optimisation

Roundtable 3: New Design And Engineering Developments In Data Centres

Roundtable 4. Using The Cloud For Financial Applications

Roundtable 5. Data Centre efficiency For Media & New Media

Roundtable 6: Quality of Service and Expectations

You are welcome to suggest other topics for roundtable discussions!

16:30 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks and End of Conference