DataCenterDynamics Converged 2012

Headline speakers at DatacenterDynamics Converged 2012 will include representatives from Facebook, Microsoft, the European Commission and the UK Cabinet Office.

The event takes place at London’s Excel convention centre on 14 and 15 November.

This year’s event takes place in the context of unprecedented media attention on data centres as either inefficient power drains or vital economic assets.

Facebook’s vice president of site operations, Thomas Furlong, will be discussing how Facebook began using leased data centre capacity before moving right through the spectrum to building its own custom data centres. Most data centre operators are quite circumspect about sharing their operational techniques and learnings. Facebook is quite the opposite and everyone in the data centre industry stands to learn a lot from the experience they so freely share.

Liam Maxwell, deputy CIO of the UK government’s Cabinet Office, Will provide the latest details of the G-cloud strategy and procurement framework which is at the centre of the UK government’s programme for efficiency, reform and growth. He will explain how, through a drive towards open standards and open source, the UK government plans to help far more SME’s enter the marketplace – with IT becoming a major driving force for the UK economy.

Reliability, sustainability and performance are the key drivers behind the global data centres powering Microsoft’s online, live and cloud services to consumer and business customers worldwide.  David Gauthier, Microsoft director of data centre architecture and design management – responsible for the company’s data centre footprint globally – will be explaining ‘The vertically integrated data centre’ an enabler of cost-optimised data centre solutions.

Meanwhile, the European Commission is concerned the European market has been lagging behind the US in relation to cloud adoption.  Dr Carl-Christian Buhr, member of the cabinet of European Commission vice president and Nellie Kroes responsible for Digital Agenda Research and Innovation in ICT, will talk about the confusion, concern and contradictory regulatory environments that have been to blame for this. Most importantly, Dr Buhr will describe the work – already two years underway – that the European Commission is doing to develop a standard set of regulatory guidelines to homogenise the regulatory environment to promote the use of cloud computing – especially amongst SMEs.

With the DatacenterDynamics Census 2012 just published – one of the largest studies yet, with over 5000 people and companies surveyed – DCD Intelligence md and chief analyst Nicola Hayes will be presenting an in-depth look at the current data centre market and future projections.

Delgates can register by visiting  http://gomyd.cd/london-register.