Tracks
7 Tracks
| Strategic Vision | S | |
| Tactical Approach | T | |
| Track 1: Evolving Infrastructure Commoditization and Your Path Forward: | Organizations increasingly perceive raw infrastructure as a commodity. However, this infrastructure of servers, networks, storage and so on is the foundation for any data center. Get this choice wrong and the layers built on top will come crumbling down. Given the current market turmoil, new entrants and consolidation in this area, this track will cover how to choose the right strategic technologies and vendors for servers, networks, storage, databases and clients, and how they will evolve in the future. It will also examine any emerging trends and best practices in this area. | T1 |
| Track 2: Is Cloud Computing the End Game of Virtualization? | Most organizations are now familiar and are using virtualization technology for servers, storage, clients and so on in their data center. However, the increasing heterogeneity of technology and diversity of vendors in the data center makes it a difficult decision to bet their business on the future of these technologies and vendors. In this track we help organizations plot their journey towards the next steps in virtualization across various technology platforms, vendors and help identify how and where this will be the foundational technology for real-time infrastructure (RTI) and cloud computing. We will also examine trends, critical success factors, major pitfalls and best practices that will provide organizations the agility needed to manage rapid change without breaking the bank. | T2 |
| Track 3: Delivering Lower TCO and Higher Quality of Service Through IT Operations Excellence | IT operations is the key to delivering business benefits of lower TCO, managing and improving quality of services and lowering business risk. In this track we examine the increasingly complex and changing infrastructure, services (in-house, outsourced and cloud) and application environment and propose organizational, process (e.g. ITIL v3) and technology solutions to deliver business benefits rapidly without disrupting the business. We also examine the trends and best practices in IT operations. Furthermore it will also guide you on how to devise high availability and disaster recovery strategies and make technology choices. | T3 |
| Track 4: Data Center Services, Strategies and Best Practices | Most data centers today do not procure all their services in-house. This track examines how organizations should devise multi-sourcing strategies to optimize costs without sacrificing agility and risk. It will also look at how emerging trends in power and cooling, facilities, environmental (green IT) and other factors impact the data center. It also examines how enterprises should manage their IT assets by negotiating software licenses, services and facilities to optimize costs and identify future trends in these areas. | T4 |
| Virtual Track: Optimizing Costs and Making Savings Within the Data Center | Most organizations have been and are feeling the cost pressures more this year than ever before. In this track we provide short term, medium term and long term actionable advice on how to optimize costs. This track will identify content in the four main tracks that provide this advice in the infrastructure, software, services, applications, IT operations and other areas. | V1 |
