Over 1,500 enterprise-class data center and cloud services executives and technical, engineering professionals will gather for DCD Enterprise Conference and Expo at the Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel, New York, March 14-15.
With new app development and release cycles and accompanying revenue generation, where opportunities are measured in days and weeks, the conference will tackle the issue of how the decision-making process for IT critical capacity needs to change and whether enterprise IT and critical facilities capacity planning professionals are prepared.
“More and more, we see IT departments placing workload portability, flexibility and agility at the top of their requirements lists when selecting new infrastructure solutions to both support and enable the business,” says Rick Drescher, managing director for Savills-Studley’s data center and cloud services advisory. ”No longer are ‘one-size-fits-all’ IT and data center solutions acceptable to meet the hyper-changing needs of the business.”
Drescher will lead a Big Discussion that will explore how IT and critical facilities leaders can ensure that the new digital-first value of flexibility and agility sit at the same level of strategic design criteria as cost, technology feature sets, and operational efficiency.
DevOps for dummies
Also in the DevOps camp, Choice Hotel’s distinguished engineer, Brian Mericle gets behind buzzwords like Build Automation, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment to provide practical actions to consider as it relates to the leadership, teams, and process automation technology necessary for enterprises to be successful out of the barn on their digital transformation journey.
“Infrastructure and operations management solutions providers are working hard to remove the technical, financial, and governance obstacles hindering IT organizations from adopting hybrid IT and cloud platforms as a preferred solution to growth and capacity challenges,” says DCD’s Giovanni Zappulo. “The conference we have put together addresses many of the issues faced by today’s technology end-user and showcases many of the solutions available on the market today.”
Registering to attend DCD>Enterprise
Designed specifically for IT decision-makers from organizations that run data center-scale infrastructure, attendance is limited to 1,500 delegates this year. Pre-registration is expected to be heavily over-subscribed, therefore we urge qualified end-user/operators to apply for passes as soon as they have cleared their calendars.