Participants: Stephen Worn

Participants: Mike Foskett

Participants: Patrick Fogarty

Participants: Michael Warrilow

The Hong Kong Stock exchange needed to prove the business case and provide an innovative conceptual design for a very large (potentially 25,000 SqM), scalable and sustainable datacentre environment that would be capable of supporting hundreds of very high profile, market trading customers connecting to the exchange. This presentation highlights the challenges, opportunities, partnerships and approach that were used to not only meet the needs but deliver an innovative and potentially game changing set of solution options.

Participants: Marcus Stock

This presentation addresses how data centres need to be configured to address Cloud Computing as it evolves. The physical environment has to considerably more flexible which requires a rethink in the way data centre infrastructure is designed and rolled out. There are three requirements that both Industry and Consumers expect:

1. ‘Instant On’ compute provisioning; pay for IT services as they are used not as a fixed overhead 2. IT services work without interruption. They are ‘Always On’

3. Energy cost and consumer pressure is forcing organizations to minimize their energy usage and consider their impact on the environment How these requirements are provisioned varies according to the type and quality of IT service required.

Participants: Ed Ansett

Over the last five years many large end-user organisations have built new facilities either as self-build or in conjunction with developers to meet regulations, to de-risk their businesses, and/or to provide further IT capacity.  Designing these facilities is often challenging. Standard formats and approaches to design are unusual, views taken on risk, site selection, commercial viability, and technical performance& vary widely and can be heavily influenced by the relative strengths of the client’s own internal resource and structure. This session will show, with project examples, approaches to encompassing clients requirements and illustrate methods used to bring designs and projects to a successful conclusion.

Participants: Robert Thorogood

Having spent more than a decade as tenants and designers of data centres, the team at Tier5 began a search in 2009 for data centre technology that would  - provide optimal efficiency  - be flexible enough for deployment in any city in the world (not just the big ones)  - provide a platform for a facility roll-out over the next 15-20 years Our search led to Tier 5 being the launch customer for the 3rd generation Modular Data Centre from Dell. In this talk Marty will describe this journey from selection to initial deployment - which involved getting a data centre from an empty shed to fully operational in three weeks. This will provide you with the opportunity to hear about a 'warts and all' deployment of one of the newest data centre infrastructure designs around.

Participants: Marty Gauvin

With the increasing requirements for the storage of electronic data, the race is on to construct more and more high load data centres to satisfy the growing demand. Concurrently, the debate about global warming and the desire of operators to run data centres at higher efficiencies and lower operating costs has created the need to re-think data centre designs to satisfy both these important drivers. Data centres consume significant amounts of energy through the powering of data processing equipment

Participants: Lester Partridge

Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is an emerging global software category. Barend Jonker, APC Data Centre Solution Architect, will explore how changing operational challenges including Green IT, energy efficiency, PUE, utility negotiations and return on investment are highlighting the need for a new, business orientation to the management of data centre physical infrastructure. Barend will also address the building blocks of a comprehensive DCIM platform and the requirement for integration with Enterprise management systems, building management systems and network management systems for holistic management of the entire data centre ecosystem from utility power quality to operation to generator fuel level to UPS tolerance to associated server application.

Participants: David Sweikert

Introduction to the main free cooling options in the market, with consideration of their environmental impact     <br/>
·Case study of Capgemini's European Green Data Centre of the Year<br/>
·The principles of world leading energy efficient data centre design and operation<br/>
·How do you trial global operation and year long energy efficiency?<br/>
·How do you spread the benefits of free cooling across Australia? <br/>
· Scaling capacity, rapidly, with higher quality? A pipe dream… or today's reality?

Participants: Nick Vaney

Participants: Darrell Phillips

David Yip to speak with Peter Sack about extending the value and life of your data centre and how to avoid being restricted by existing facilities infrastructure. During this interview you will hear about redefining data centre efficiency and how a modular approach to designing data centres supports increasing cooling capacity, flexibility and scalability requirements.

Participants: David Yip

Participants: Craig Gob

This presentation will look at the market drivers, user applications and market demand underpinning the global market adoption of (DCIM) Data Center Infrastructure Management tools. Covered also in this brief presentation will be (DCIM) types and how they potentially can help improve the accuracy and reduce complexity in dynamic day-to-day Data Centre Operational Change and Capacity Management decisions.

Participants: Clinton Marshall

New organisations, new products and new ways of thinking. The DC industry is a highly dynamic environment so why are we often guilty of implementing blueprints that have been around for over 10 years ? This session will looking at how new and emerging technologies can provide real cost benefits for facilities in Australia and New Zealand

Participants: Mark Roberts

Participants: David Henzell

Participants: Ian Woodroofe

As part of a future expansion ASX planned a brand new data centre in the CBD of Sydney. As part of the business nurture ASX have had some special requirements and demands which required detailed considerations and investigations. Some key considerations have been usability and operational thoughts and from a technical point of view latency.  This presentation is showing how ASX handled this project and what kind of solutions have been installed.

Participants: Thorsten Punke

A critical gap exists between a data center's IT equipment and  facilities infrastructure, the virtual and physical layers.  Virtualization has brought greater efficiency, but has introduced new complexities and pressures to the static physical infrastructure. Organizations lack visibility into the impact of virtualization and the deployment of high-density servers on the physical infrastructure, and that keeps them from utilizing the full capacity of their equipment.

Participants: Tim Hill

Participants: Brett Winterford

Participants: Mike Foskett

This panel will address how the data centre industry will need to adapt to keep up with the changing face of business this decade through strategies like virtualisation and consolidation as well as changes that occur through renovating and upgrading your sites.

Participants: Patrick Fogarty