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SYSOP Seminar - The Data Centre in 2010
Date: 10th May 2007
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Agenda:
| 10:00 |
Introduction – Stuart Sawle, Managing Director |
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Stuart will introduce Sysop and today’s speakers |
| 10:10 |
Introduction to Server and Storage Virtualisation – Glen Cattermole, Technical Director |
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Glen will explain how Virtual Server technology and Storage Area Networks are becoming key technologies in the modern data centre. |
| 10:30 |
VMware case study – Simon Marvell, Virtualisation Sales Engineer, Magirus Ltd |
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Simon will look at some case studies at how customers are deploying VMware to improve their IT services, improve server utilisation, provide “greener” services and reduce costs. |
| 11:00 |
Coffee |
| 11:20 |
Enabling the Virtual Data Centre – Adam Sawle, Principal Consultant |
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Adam will explain how technology can be used to overcome network limitations to achieve a truly centralised Virtual Data Centre. |
| 12:00 |
Hitachi Data Systems – Dave Haslam, Technical Director, Hitachi Data Systems |
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Dave will look at today’s IT business challenge of providing a better services with reduced budgets by considering storage consolidation and Application Optimised Storage to do more with less. |
| 12:20 |
Close – Stuart Sawle |
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Stuart will summarise the main points and invite attendees to join us for lunch. |
Technology that is “leading edge” today will be well established and widely available by 2010.
This technology is already delivering considerable business advantage to the “early adopters”. It is that is cleaner, greener, cheaper, smaller, more resilient, and easier to manage than its, now-dated, counterparts.
The adoption lag
Sysop research suggests that there is a 10 year technology span between those organisations that adopt technology early and those that wait for technology to be proven and cheaply available.
The late adopters pay for their “safe” transition through high server-maintenance-costs, unreliable back-up, and unwieldy disaster recovery plans. Many late adopters are unable to visualise a strategy that delivers benefit from better technology.
This Sysop seminar looks ahead to the technology, available today, that will be well established by 2010. It will identify strategies that can be implemented today to deliver real business benefit, intercepting best practice in relation to technology adoption.
Who should attend?
IT and Service Delivery Managers responsible for the effective management of Data Centres, Computer Operations, Communications Networks or an IT Infrastructure in general.
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