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Cloudbusting: what impact does designing for cloud computing have on the data centre

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This presentation will cover practical advice on how best to design data centres to support more efficient cloud computing and virtualisation deployments.

Gone are the days when data centres could be split into different areas where high-profile applications got the biggest machines and most attention on the power and cooling front. With virtualisation, virtual machines can move seamlessly around the data centre, while cloud computing makes it even harder to link the physical IT to what work is being done.

Instead, data centre design has to cover the whole environment. While this makes consolidation and cost effectiveness of the data centre paramount, the physical design of the data centre is still the most critical element in these projects being successful. Cloud computing also changes the mindset for supporting data centre assets speed to replace individual units and ease of support become critical, compared to fixing the asset that might have broken.

David Palmer-Stevens of Panduit will go through what changes in data centre design are being employed in order to make these projects efficient, as well as where new technology choices like desktop virtualisation are also affecting data centre choices.

Speaker: David Palmer Stevens

Job title: Systems Integrator Manager EMEA

David Palmer-Stevens is currently Systems Integrator Manager EMEA for PANDUIT focusing on the companys Green Data Centre Initiatives, Intelligent infrastructure Management and new high power PoE solutions. He has a long history in understanding data centre design and optimising this for cost efficiency and power savings.

David has over 20 years experience in the communications industry covering engineering, sales and marketing. Prior to PANDUIT, David initiated PowerDsines PoE channel strategy in Europe. Davids background is from the Networking industry with senior management roles with, Enterasys, Xyland, Cabletron and Racal Milgo. David wrote and illustrated the Cabletron Guide to Local Area networks, the Xylan Switching Revolution booklet, the Advents E-Business Strategy for Small Businesses and the Enterasys technology book Enterprise Networking. David has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and an HNC in Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Watch this session in the Virtualization and the Cloud Theatre on March 01 2012 at 2:30 pm