Data Centres Europe Addresses Challenges and Opportunities of Sustained Boom.More Than Ever a Critical Strategic Resource for Enterprises LONDON -- The third Data Centres Europe taking place in London 22-23 March 2007, will address the many challenges and opportunities in the face of a sustained boom in demand and record growth levels. The event, which this year significantly themes the enterprise user, will also seek to articulate the evidence for continued growth, but also assess the consequences in terms of technology and investment and as regulation increasingly encroaches on data centre activity. "DCE (1) (Distributed Computing Environment) Software from The Open Group that allows applications to be built across heterogeneous platforms in a network. DCE includes security, directory naming, time synchronization, file sharing, RPCs and multithreading services. has uniquely defined the critical strategic resource that Data Centres represent over the past three years," commented Nicola Hayes, vice president at BroadGroup, the event researchers and producers. "This is a critical time in growth, with many expansion plans in place, and this event offers a valuable corroboration of user service demands, as well as a holistic Holistic A practice of medicine that focuses on the whole patient, and addresses the social, emotional, and spiritual needs of a patient as well as their physical treatment. Mentioned in: Aromatherapy, Stress Reduction, Traditional Chinese Medicine view of European markets and development. Delegates also gain from the enormous networking opportunity in joining the flagship European event." Themes to be discussed at the event cover a range of critical topics including the evolution of Data Centres in Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and other European centres, future funding and investment in Data Centres, the migration of IT in Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. companies to third party outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. , Managed Services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality - and the rising importance of VoIP to the portfolio, a Peering Panel, an update on the carrier hotels market, the rise of connectivity, and a special focus session, Content Delivery in the Data Centre environment. Following keynote keynote /key·note/ (ke´not) in homeopathy, the characteristic property of a drug that indicates its use in treating a similar symptom of disease. presentations by guest speakers, the second day of the event poses the question, how urgent is virtualisation and an expert panel will assess best practice in Data Centres. A highlight of the event will be The Green Seminar - How Green and Sustainable Should Data Centres become? Provided by global consultancy ARUP, the seminar aims to address key questions confronting Data Centres for the short, medium and long term. DCE is sponsored by Rittal, Active Power, Corning, Acumen Solutions UK Ltd, Migration Solutions, euNetworks and The Colocation Exchange. The Hosted Software Summit, which forms part of the 3rd Annual Data Centres Europe event, will take place on 21st March, and will explore themes from a vendor, purchaser and end user viewpoint, with an expert speaker academy including Salesforce.com, Akamai, NTT Europe Online NTT Europe Online provides managed hosting and related services such as application management and security management for many types of business connected to the Internet. It also provides shared hosting. , Attenda, 7Global, Acumen Solutions UK Ltd, COLT Telecom, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and McKinsey & Co. Data Centres Europe also hosts another first - the Data Centres Awards Ceremony with 8 categories for nomination including best Data Centre in Europe and Outstanding CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the year award. "Across the three days, DCE 07 is packed with insight, activity, a sponsor exhibition, the first awards ceremony and is attended by thought leaders and decision markers in Data Centres in the UK and Europe," commented Philip Low, managing director at BroadGroup. "We believe 2007 is the year of the Enterprise because their migration needs are creating new eco-systems driving Data Centre expansion." www.datacentres.com |
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