Green computing, IT consolidation, virtualization, and blade servers - to name a few - a world defined by constant change. Nothing short of completely-reliable data center infrastructure for IT systems and networks will do. This track will focus on the elements that enable networks and solutions that meet these increasingly complex needs.
Track Chair: James Hall
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Just when the world of applications seemed to be predictable, along comes growth in areas such as open source, software as a service and service oriented architecture. Combined with the need for improved application performance, the next generation data center suddenly has a host of new application issues to deal with and standards watch. In this track we will look at what is happening with applications to make them easier to manage, easier to use, more cost effective and more valuable.
Track Chair: William Vanderbilt
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Technology, facilities and operations are evolving at a record pace and at the center of the evolution is the Next Generation Data Center. Understanding the data center facility infrastructure is a requirement for today’s data center professional. The classes of this track presented by the DCJ Education, a subsidiary of the Data Center Journal, will offer attendees a basic competency in data center facility infrastructure and design. Attendees of this track are eligible to apply their attendance toward credit hours for the Data Center Infrastructure Awareness certificate offered through DCJ Education.
Track Chair: Randy Ortiz
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This track examines the security challenges and solutions in the next-generation data center. The next-generation data center incorporates new technologies such as SOA and virtualization and delivers applications over the WAN to laptops, desktops, phones and other mobile devices. Managing end-to-end security from the user to the back-end data is becoming more challenging. As the traditional approaches of perimeter security and 3-tier architecture security layers are becoming less effective, companies are re-engineering their data centers, re-organizing their IT teams and adopting new best practices for data center security.
Track Chair: Andreas Antonopoulos
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Information technology is the science of understanding, delivering and protecting data. Storage is an essential element to the success of today's business. Today's business depends on storage and information management for everything from e-mail to account management, from corporate payroll to on-line ecommerce. The Storage and Information Management track will provide essential education and tips to help maximize the value of your IT and storage infrastructure. The track is designed to benefit both IT staff, management and end users interested in improving their IT portfolio.
Track Chairs: Michael Fishman
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Virtualization is one of the hottest trends in data centers. This track will focus on the broader sense of virtualization (including and beyond machine virtualization that brought this topic to the forefront) and explore the many dimensions and layers of virtualization including variants of the concepts as applied to applications, storage, network and management etc. The synergy and application of these aspects of virtualization will define the data center of tomorrow hence this track will endeavor to help the IT practitioner understand and stay abreast of the ideas, trends and developments as they define and build the NGDC for their specific contexts.
Track Chair: Ravi Subramaniam
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This track will focus on how to optimize networks, infrastructure services and data centers for best use of new dynamic business requirements.
The emphasis on optimization will be for maximizing business performance, while at the same time reducing the ecological footprint of the data center. Presentations include such subjects as making networking more energy efficient, improving the ecology of existing data centers, green requirements for new data centers, balancing green requirements against business application performance requirements, designing green data center services.
Track Chair: Jerald Murphy
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