DataCentre Transformation Manchester: Agenda announced  

THIS YEAR’S EVENT will build on the success of previous events by expanding the breadth and depth of technology coverage, reflecting the dynamic, flexible environment required of today’s data centre.

Just as data centre managers have to manage the balance between consolidating their existing facilities and IT estate alongside the need to embrace innovation, so the conference recognises the importance of the ‘traditional’ data centre disciplines, such as power and cooling, alongside those evolving technologies and business requirements that are placing new demands on data centre facilities.

The agenda is split into the following sections:
Session 1:
Energy Efficient and Effective Computing
 The Energy Efficient Computing Research
Programme at the Hartree Centre: The
Road to Scientific Hyper Scale Computing
- Neil Morgan, STFC Hartree Centre
 The links between reducing energy
consumption, data growth, smart cities,
the end of Moore’s Law and ISO 30143 -
KPIs for resource efficient data centres -
Ian Bitterlin, Critical Facilities

Session 2:
Heat recovery, Metrics and Smart Cities
 Prospects for Waste Heat Recovery
in Data Centers - Dr Peter Rodgers, the
Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi
 The Beauty of Urban Datacentres -
Dr Adam Beaumont, aql
 The Smart City Collaboration Cluster
(S3C): its workings and objectives -
Vasiliki Georgiadou, Green IT, Amsterdam
 Combining Metrics: The need for a
balanced view – Mark Seymour, Future
Facilities
 Trends and Challenges for Datacentres -
Highlights from the 2015 iNEMI
Technology Roadmap – Grace O’Malley.
iNEMI

Session 3A:
DC Developments - Hardware and Software
 Green IT - Bob Crooks
 Software defined datacentres: implications
and opportunities - Prof Dennis Kehoe,
AIMES Grid Services
 Cloud Industry Forum - Breda Beyer
 Data Centre Cabling and Networking –
Lee Funnell, The Siemon Company

Session 3B:
DC Developments - Educating, Coordinating and Managing
 Supporting Students’ Data Centre
Learning Using Modelling Software -
Dr Issa Chaer, London South Bank
University
 Horizon 2020 EURECA Coordination
Project- John Booth, Carbon3IT
 Combined ICT and FM operations in the
Data Centre: The practical reality and
lessons learned – Mark Acton,
CBRE Norland
 Sustainability for Data Centres –
Robert Tozer, Operational Intelligence

Dr Jon Summers of the University of Leeds, the Conference Chair, will give an opening presentation - Can Digital Demand outstrip Physical Limits? in which he will examine the possibilities and possible limits for the datacentre in the year 2048. There will also be Technology Focus sessions from the Conference sponsors, to date:
Emerson Network Power, Hillstone Loadbanks, Riello UPS, Solar Cool Heating and Cooling, StarLine Track Busway and ZPAS Group.

The overall objective of DataCentre Manchester 2015 is to reflect the ongoing need for the facilities and IT functions to join together to ensure the optimum data centre environment that can best serve the enterprise’s business requirements. After all, data centres do not exist in isolation, but are the engines that drive the critical applications on which the enterprise relies.

Delegates are primarily data centre owners (from SMB through to Enterprise) as well as data centre operators, European academia and businesses who want to overcome the inflexibility and high costs created by IT sprawl by looking for solutions to make their data centres more adaptable, more efficient and less expensive to operate.

In addition to hearing current thinking from the broad base of speakers. There are opportunities for networking and face time with sponsors and speakers throughout the day. There is a further networking opportunity at the gala dinner, taking place at University of Manchester from 19:00, tickets are available to purchase through the website.

To register for the conference and purchase tickets for the networking dinner, please visit: www.dtmanchester.com