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Previous programme:
The next generation data centre
- Identifying suitable data centre sites
- Ensuring operational excellence
- What is the future for data centre procedure?
Architectural leadership
- Understanding the dynamic between business strategy, IT needs and data centre strategy
- What kind of leadership is required from technical professionals in today’s business?
- Realising the technical demands to become an effective technical leader
Data centre strategy
- What factors should be taken into account when devising a data centre strategy?
- Analysing and assessing data centre options
- Validating the chosen data centre strategy
Data centres —Who needs them anyway?
- Exploring the strategic decisions related to build or renting data centres
- Identifying the correct supplier for the business
- What are the strategic trends in the data centre market?
The critical importance of a well negotiated and balanced data centre lease
- Identifying the strengths and weaknesses leasing models
- Ensuring the landlord/tenant relationship meets your expectations
- Detecting and avoiding the common pitfalls
Moving to the cloud
- Planning and preparing the move to the cloud
- Overcoming the predicted and unpredicted barriers to cloud migration
G-Cloud update
- What are the latest development to the G-Cloud?
- When will the G-Cloud be a reality?
- Lessons to take away when implementing a massive scale IT change
Data centre consolidation across multiple sites
- Effective planning and preparation to ensure smooth integration
- Overcoming the challenges of a consolidation across multiple countries
- What are the disadvantages of consolidation?
Virtualisation—Making savings or hiding costs?
- Does the business case stand up?
- Assessing when virtualisation is appropriate
- Where does virtualisation fit in the long term IT strategy?
Starting the green journey at the data centre
- How does the data centre fit within the green agenda?
- What are the inherent benefits of a green data centre?
- Strategies for reducing costs and emissions
Strategic optimisation and utilisation for business advantage
- Identifying mission critical requirements and operations
- Virtualisation, cloud, hybrid and agile development working in harmony
- Releasing the benefits of implementing a new platform
Open forum discussion: The future of the ‘Head of Data Centre‘
- How is the role ‘Head of Data Centre’ set to change over the next 5 years?
- Will this mean evolution or extinction?
- Can current skill sets support this change?
Identifying and reducing risks to the data centre
- Where do the threats come from?
- Mitigating potential risks
- Devising an effective disaster recovery plan
Overhauling data centre storage
- Evaluating alternative storage formats
- Key steps in planning a storage change programme
Reviewing the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme
- What do the latest coalition policies mean for UK data centres?
- Do data centres just produce carbon or can they help reduce emissions?
Open forum discussion: The future for data centres
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