TOPIC: Not another Green Data Centres Presentation - How to make data centres greener from an IT perspective
Derek Allen is Head of Data Centre Operations at Cable & Wireless. His current focus is to reduce energy consumption and costs across the Data Centre estate while improving their operations, stability and reliability.
TOPIC: Optimising IT in an Environmentally Sensitive World
Steve Bowden is Chief Technology Officer for Green Computing at IBM, with a remit to promote sustainable, cost-effective, energy-efficient IT across Northern Europe.
TOPIC: Data centre resilience, availability and security – Successful integration for customer availability
Mark has sixteen years experience in security, risk management and consultancy.
He began his career within the UK Government as a member of HM Forces (Army) where he specialised in security management, progressing through the ranks and gaining a wide range of experience in various elements of security, including physical, logical and key-point consultancy.
TOPIC: Data Centre efficiency - it’s in the design
Lex Coors has been managing complex engineering and design and build challenges since the early 1980s. As Interxion’s Director of Engineering, and latterly VP Data Centre Technology & Engineering Group, he has supervised the design, build and upgrade of nearly 50,000m² of data centre space in 22 locations in 12 countries.
TOPIC: The Impact of New Technology on the Data Centre InfrastructureTrevor Dearing is the marketing manager for Enterprise Solutions in EMEA. Since joining Juniper Networks he has focused on promoting the benefits of MPLS for the enterprise and campaigning for more secure VoIP networks.
TOPIC: Virtualisation: The next generation of efficient data centres
Jim is responsible for Cisco’s Data Centre Business Transformation Team across the UK and Irish markets. His team ensures that Cisco’s customers can benefit from the value-added data centre solutions and services offered by Cisco and its partner community.
Topic: Infrastructure Hosting in the Credit Crunch - Build or Buy
Anthony Foy has been one of the chief architects of Interxion’s growth and success in the data centre sector since he became Group Managing Director in July 2001. He has responsibility for the overall strategic development of the company’s sales and country operations, which are spread across 24 data centres in 11 European countries.
TOPIC: Optimising Data Centre Power – A Case Study in Saving PowerAndrew Gibson has worked for Raritan since Spring 2003 when he was responsible for setting up Raritan’s first London office and establishing a team that has grown the UK business five fold since then.
TOPIC: 7 Key points for data centre design
After completing a Diploma in Architecture, Andrew Good joined ttsp in 1990 as a project architect and has been involved in a wide range of commercial projects, which have involved masterplanning, new build and refurbishment. Andrew was appointed as a Director of ttsp in 1999.
TOPIC: You’ve Got the Power: How to Improve Efficiencies & Drive Down Energy Costs Desktops to Data Centres
After completing his degree in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Wolfgang Goretzki spent three years working in product development at Siemens AG and NEC Corporation, mainly in the area of telecommunications.
TOPIC: Higher densities to manage and higher speeds to comeKen Hodge was educated at Liverpool University and Warwick University. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology. He is currently the R&D Manager in the Brand-Rex Company and is based in their headquarters in Glenrothes, Scotland.
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TOPIC: Outside the Box Strategies for Data Centre Cabling InfrastructuresChris joined Tyco Electronics as Client Solution Manager. Focusing on the full technology and product design requirements for the top Global companies.
TOPIC: Continuous Business Operations, Being Prepared for the Unexpected
Hamish E. Macarthur is the founder of Macarthur Stroud International. His experience encompasses the computer and telecommunications markets in Europe and the United States.
TOPIC: The impact on data centres of choosing the right cabling infrastructure
Rosemary McGlashon has over 20 years experience in structured cabling and is currently European Technical Manager for 3M, the diversified technology company, which has ranges of both fibre and copper cabling components and systems under the Volition brand name.
TOPIC: Evolving a disaster recovery plan into a business continuity plan
Graham McKay is a senior consultant with brightsolid and heads up their business continuity consulting division. He regularly supports organisations in creating their business continuity capabilities and conducts regular scenario based exercises and workshops.
TOPIC: The Whole Story Behind the Virtualized Data Centre – Breakthrough Economics and Eco Responsibility
Jim Murphy is vice president of Sales for EMEA and Asia Pacific regions. He is responsible for managing Active Power’s customer relationships and sales growth in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, Korea and southeast Asia.
TOPIC: Strategies for Creating an Adaptive Data Center
Tim Norman is a Principal Consultant at CA and specialises in Business Service Management with a particular focus on Operations and Configuration Management.
TOPIC: Save the data centre, save the world: how organisations can reap benefits of next-generation technologiesSimon has over 17 years of experience working in the IT industry. His first role was as a Contract Programmer in the early nineties. He then moved onto Windows and Unix Administration followed by Data Base Administration at Oracle and Sybase, which then lead him into Storage Administration with Symmetrix.
TOPIC: Data Centre Strategy at Transport for London
Phil Pavitt is Group CIO for Transport for London (TfL), the functional body responsible for the implementation of the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy and the management of transport services across the Capital including London's buses.
TOPIC: All that glisters is not green: real world solutions to increasing efficiency, cutting costs and reducing environmental impact
Alex Rabbetts is co-founder and Managing Director of Migration Solutions. A member of the Institute of Directors and the Project Management Institute, Alex has considerable experience of managing projects with budgets ranging from £20,000 to £200 million, employing formal project methodologies including PRINCE and Perform.
TOPIC: Energy Efficiency in the Data Centre and Beyond
Peter has worked in the IT industry for over 30 years, both in the public and private sectors. For the past 25 years he has worked for IBM UK in a variety of roles, starting out as a technical specialist and migrating though consultancy and business development to marketing.
TOPIC: Using Simulation to Optimise Data Centre Design
Paul Rose achieved his Mechanical Engineering Degree from The City University in 1987. Paul has spent the last 15 years working for Mentor Graphics Corporation, Mechanical Analysis Division (formerly Flomerics Ltd) specialising in the application of CFD to the design of the built environment and electronic equipment.
TOPIC: Data Centre Economics creating the eco-data centre
Alec D Selvon-Bruce is Hitachi Data Systems' EMEA Eco-Solutions Champion. Alec is a political studies graduate of University of Aberdeen and a member of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA).
TOPIC: Planning and Building an Energy Efficient DatacentreJim Smith is the Chief Technology Officer of Digital Realty Trust where he oversees data centre development, the company's efficiency & green strategy, and power procurement & energy management.
TOPIC: Fuel Cells and Standby Power: The State of the Market
With a background in the IT industry, Tom Sperrey founded UPS Systems plc in 1993 to satisfy a gap in the marketplace IT departments that needed specialist and impartial advice on the best standby power solutions to satisfy their very specific power requirements.
TOPIC: If Not Now, When? Create a DR Plan Today!Jim Spooner is the Strategy Services Practice Manager for GlassHouse Technologies UK, where he brings over 20 years experience within data storage and IT service delivery.
Topic: Proximity Hosting – Achieving Lowest Latency on Financial Trades
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TOPIC: Virtualization as an IT Optimizer
Mick joined IBM from the acquisition of Sequent Computers in 2000, where he managed the European Services Business. He currently holds the position of Green Computing Consultant in IBM STG advising IBM clients on energy efficient data centres and distributed computing environments.