Education programme - Data Centres

Please find below a list of all sessions in the 360°IT Education Programme relating to Data Centres
 
Wednesday 22 Sep 2010
10:00 - 10:25A Real Green Data Centre: Sanctuary Group Achieve High Performance While Saving Energy & Reducing CO2 Emissions
Speaker/s
Mr Nick Ewing, Head Of DC & Infrastructure, Comtec
Solutions Centre 2
10:40 - 11:05Building and Benefiting from a Private Cloud Data Centre

Speaker/s
Mr David Rajan, Director Technology, Oracle UK, Ireland and Israel, Oracle
Mr Paul Burne, Senior Director, Insight for Data Centre Technology, Oracle
Solutions Centre 1
11:20 - 11:45Commercial Certification in Further & Higher Education (Developing Your Workforce)

Speaker/s
Mr Andrew Smith, Lecturer, The Open University
Solutions Centre 1
11:30 - 12:30Cut Your Costs & Provide Future Growth With Tiering - Software.Hardware.Complete.
Speaker/s
Mr John Abel, Chief Technology Architect, EMEA Server and Storage, Oracle
Mr Scott Wilson, Chief Architect, EMEA Solutions, Oracle
Tech Lab 1
12:00 - 12:25NetApp's Cloud Economics: Enabling Efficient & Secure Enterprise Clouds

Speaker/s
Mr Julian Wheeler, NetApp
Solutions Centre 1
12:40 - 13:05How Harnessing Open Source (OS) Can Lead To Rapid And Significant Changes In Your IT Capabilities.

Speaker/s
Mr Peter Dawes- Huish, CEO, LinuxIT
Solutions Centre 1
13:20 - 13:45Open Network Automation is Critical to the Virtual Data Center

Speaker/s
Mr Stephen Garrison, Vice President of Marketing, Force10 Networks
Solutions Centre 2
13:45 - 14:45Are Hosted Services the Way Forward?
Chairperson
Ms Mette Ahorlu, Consulting Director, IDC European Sevices
Speaker/s
Mr Antony Hayes, Head of IT Vendor Management, Royal Mail
Mr Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson
Mr Mark Hall, Director of IT, HMRC
Mr Myron Hrycyk, CIO, Severn Trent plc
Keynote Theatre
14:00 - 16:00Workshop 1, It's all too much - monstrous amounts of data and the need for database modernisation
Speaker/s
Mr David Rajan, Director Technology, Oracle UK, Ireland and Israel, Oracle
Mr John Abel, Chief Technology Architect, EMEA Server and Storage, Oracle
Workshops
14:30 - 15:15Managing Your Converged Infrastructure

Technical hands on overview of the software and tools used to manage a Converged Infrastructure. From systems management, application provisioning, power management, capacity planning and charge back.


Speaker/s
Mr Adam Richardson, ISS Pre-Sales Consultant, Hewlett Packard
Tech Lab 1
15:20 - 15:45Client Virtualisation - The Practical Realities of Successful Implementations.

Speaker/s
Mr David Chalmers, CTO, HP Enterprise Storage, Servers and Networking, HP
Solutions Centre 1
16:00 - 16:25Using Solid State Storage To Improve Large-Scale SQL Server Performance
Speaker/s
Mr Christian Bolton, Technical Director, Coeo Ltd - Speaking on behalf of Diamond Point Int (Europe) Ltd
Solutions Centre 2
16:15 - 17:15Is IT a Strategic Weapon or Survival Tool?
Chairperson
Mr Clive Longbottom, Service Director, Business Process Analysis, Quocirca Ltd.
Speaker/s
Mr David Chan, Director, Centre for Information Leadership, City University London
Mr Marcus East, Head Of Future Media & Technology, Comic Relief
Mr Michael Warren, CTO, The London Metal Exchange
Mr Nick Gaines, Group Information Systems Director, Volkswagen Group UK Ltd
Keynote Theatre
Thursday 23 Sep 2010
10:00 - 10:25Building a business case for Data Centre Infrastructure, Asset and Performance Management

Speaker/s
Mrs Marina Stedman, Marketing Director, nlyte Software
Solutions Centre 2
11:15 - 12:15The Big Debate - Outsourcing vs. Cloud Computing (SPONSOR PANEL)
Chairperson
Professor John Walker, Visiting Professor Of Science & Technology, School Of Computing & Informatics and member of ISACA Security Advisory Group, Nottingham Trent University
Speaker/s
Mr Dave Allen, Managing Director For UK and Ireland, NetApp
Mr Tony Morgan, Chief Innovation Officer, IBM
Mr. Errol Rhodin, Director EMEA - Communications Service Provider & OEM Solutions , Symantec
Mr. Gregor Petri, Advisor Lean IT and Cloud Computing, CA Technologies
Mr. Mateen Greenway, HP Fellow, Chief Technologist EMEA Defence, Security, Government & Healthcare, HP
Keynote Theatre
11:30 - 12:30From Efficiency to Effectiveness - How to Fuel Business Innovation & Growth While Protecting Your Existing Investments

This session will help you apply technology to efficiently manage and operate your data centre, and in the process free up 50% of your IT budget.


Speaker/s
Mrs Alex Sizeland, Enterprise Technologist, Systems Management, Dell
Tech Lab 2
12:00 - 12:25Digital Landfill: Why NAS is not enough

Speaker/s
Ms Catherine Campbell, Chief strategist, HP Storage, HP
Solutions Centre 2
12:40 - 13:05The Data Centre of the Future Vs The Future of the Data Centre

Speaker/s
Mr Tom Brand, Service Director, Glasshouse
Solutions Centre 2
14:00 - 14:25How Next-Gen Utility Storage Can Boost Your Virtual Infrastructure ROI

Speaker/s
Mr Vish Mulchand, Director, Product Marketing, 3PAR
Solutions Centre 1
14:30 - 15:30Ahead In The Cloud: Hands On With Amazon Web Services

Speaker/s
Dr Matt Wood, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
Tech Lab 1
15:20 - 15:45Overcoming Barriers To Virtualisation

Speaker/s
Mr. Andy Smith, Solutions Acrchitect, Virtualisation & Infrastructure Team, EACS Limited
Solutions Centre 1
15:20 - 15:45The Third Generation of Silicon Storage

Speaker/s
Dr Donald Basile, CEO, Violin Memory
Solutions Centre 3
16:40 - 17:05Unlocking IT's Hidden Resource In The CSR Debate

Speaker/s
Mr Phil Reakes, Managing Director, Ethical IT
Solutions Centre 2
16:40 - 17:05Mobile Applications Development
16:40 - 17:05Mobile Applications Development

Speaker/s
Mr Vladimir Antonovitch , CTO, Elinext Group