Data Centre Alliance

This talk looks at the facts behind the data centre colocation market, what you should consider and the key areas you should look for when considering data centre space via a service provider.

panel session taking your questions on any aspect of data centre outsourcing, hosting & colocation - Joining the panel will be experts from the morning's talks ready and able to provide independent advice.

This talk explores the critical area of how to move your IT from one data centre infratructure to another with the objective of minimising risk, downtime and cost.

This talk describes the key factors in ensuring a successful colocation or data centre outsourcing partnership and also how to ensure your business objectives are achieved.

Energy efficiency is one of the biggest issues facing a data center industry which is still in its infancy. If you are an enterprise or a medium size businesses, how should you go about eliminating costly waste from your data center - or would it save energy and effort to outsource it to the cloud?

This panel looks at ways to tackle energy management, IT architecture, and the all important people issue.

More enterprise businesses are capitalizing on the benefits of moving their data centre functions to private and hybrid cloud hosting facilities that provide cost effective scaling of physical infrastructure. Whereas numerous solutions to automate and remotely manage data centre power and cooling functions exist, fibre connectivity is still manually managed today. Automated Fibre Management (AFM) is a new technology designed specifically to automate, switch and manage fibre infrastructure. This webinar will discuss how AFM technology allows a data centre owner to remotely provision, troubleshoot and manage his fibre infrastructure, thus eliminating cost of downtime, reducing operational costs and removing barriers to cost effective scaling of data centre infrastructure.

The DCA has been in operation for almost a year Simon Campbell-Whyte and Steve Hone cover what has been achieved so far and the agenda for 2012

3M has developed, introduced and commercialized an unprecedented sustainable halocarbon clean extinguishing agent whereby researchers have struck a balance of not only being effective in fire extinguishing but also demonstrating superior environmental properties in combination with a low toxicity and reduced space and weight requirements. It should also possess sufficient chemical/thermal stability during handling and in end use.. This halocarbon belongs to the fluoroketone class. The chemical formula of CF3CF2C(O)C(CF3)2 is identified in the new ISO 14520 standard by the ASHRAE nomenclature FK-5-1-12.
Commercially known as 3MTM Novec™ 1230 Fire Protection Fluid and manufactured by 3M Company, this novel clean extinguishing agent has been shown to combine the performance and environmental attributes sought by industries that demand the high level of performance previously provided by halon until its phase-out. Compared to inert gas and water mist, systems using Novec 1230 fluid are much compacter and as such require much less space (and weight concerns).
What is unprecedented is this fluoromaterial's environmental properties that are on the order of naturally occurring compounds. Novec 1230 fluid has a surprisingly short atmospheric lifetime and yet has exhibited the stability necessary for use as a clean extinguishing agent.
Novec 1230 fluid was introduced in 2002 as a halon replacement alternative to HFCs and now has a history of use globally for the protection of special hazards / high value assets, especially in occupied spaces resulting in greenhouse gas emission reduction in industries where environmental objectives stress the use of sustainable technologies.

The data-centre landscape has changed dramatically in recent years as virtualisation technology has matured and the hypervisor has become the platform of choice for deploying IT services. This first phase has generally involved less critical applications alongside test and development environments. Initial cost savings though have often been negated by the hidden costs of technology transformation – new licensing regimes, re-skilling costs amongst others. As organisations move to the next phase and start to virtualise more business critical applications, they are looking to address key issues such as improved management, optimisation, resilience and performance whilst at the same time reducing the operational costs involved. This short webinar will highlight some of these key issues and discuss some of the options available today to solve some of the challenges you face in building out your next generation data-centre or server room.

Your chance to put your questions on any aspect of data centre design, construction and operation live to a panel of experts.