Utilising space efficiently to deal with increased computing power and maintain resilience
Returning to Hong Kong, DatacenterDynamics will address the issues faced by operators now and look forward to the challenges looming ahead. With the majority of data centre halls located in mixed-use facilities and space at a premium, data centre managers in the territory face a unique set of challenges in meeting the demands of high-performance computing requirements. Virtualisation offers a solution to these problems but must be pursued taking security, resilience and reliability into account.
As the cloud is expected to provide a major impetus for the data centre industry in Hong Kong our comprehensive conference agenda will tackle the issues arising from how such a development will affect the configuration of data centre design. Taking into account all these challenges DatacenterDynamics will examine how the latest technologies and design advances can also deliver on the need to reduce energy consumption and reduce carbon footprints.
The topics to be covered at the conference will include:
- Meeting your organisation's data centre and infrastructure needs within a mixed-use facility
- Exploring options for outsourcing – collocation and managed services
- Managing your infrastructure to deliver on your business's latency requirements
- Developing charge-back models for SAAS, PAAS and IAAS
- Properly optimising your physical infrastructure to deal with virtualisation
- Utilising dashboards to monitor deliverables for service level agreements
- Implementing hybrid data centre zoning to deliver availability according to business need
- Renovation and retrofitting – Updating existing facilities to meet the demands of higher voltages, higher densities and their knock-on effects for data centre design
- Determining the impact Unified Computing Platforms will have on the data centre fabric – cooling, power, fibre and system tools
- A thorough assessment of the challenge of energy efficiency metrics use and how to turn information into insight to lower your carbon footprint
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Joining us will be Zahl Limbuwala, Chairman & Founder of the BCS (formerly British Computer Society) Data Center Sector Group. He has been instrumental in building the understanding of data center metrics, with a particular focus on cost allocation. Recently his time has been consumed by building simulation technologies to help better understand the TCO and ROI of energy efficient products and new facility design architectures. |
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Also on the podium we welcome Chris J. Crosby who is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Digital Realty Trust and has been with the company since its initial public offering in October 2004, a witness and participant in its meteoric rise to one of the largest data center operators in the world. He will be sharing his extensive experience in new ways to fund, build and operate data centers. |
Global Knowledge, Local Insight
In order to guarantee that our conference programmes meet the needs of our audience, we have developed a methodology that we use across all DatacenterDynamics event locations that we call ‘Global Knowledge, Local Insight'.
Prevailing market conditions, technology and business drivers differ from city to country to region. By engaging in rigorous market research and ongoing discussion with local markets we focus conference content on global topics that warrant most discussion and how they can be best framed in the local context.
Each of our conference programmes draws on an ever-growing pool of international industry experts, and is balanced with case-study material from local thought leaders. Our panels are renowned for their fusion of perspectives.
