Agenda

The Drivers, Technologies and Effects of IT Innovation in Your Data Center
Eric Sheppard
Research Manager, European Disk Storage Systems, IDC EMEA
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Eric Sheppard is a research manager for IDC's European Disk Storage Systems service and is the principal analyst responsible for the quarterly collection and analyzing of disk storage systems sales within 16 Western European countries.

Key Trends and the Roadmap ahead for The Data center and next generation virtualisation
Tikiri Wanduragala
Senior Consultant, IBM
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During the past decade, companies acquired numerous servers from various vendors and created sprawling server farms. As companies now realise the costs associated with maintaining and managing these servers, virtualisation has become a growing trend in the industry, with many companies taking advantage of the technology to optimise their IT infrastructure.

A key focus of virtualisation may be cost savings, but it encompasses so much more, including an evaluation of the entire server environment for efficiency, full optimisation of the IT infrastructure and the consideration of the full processing and storage needs of an enterprise. Tikiri will cover the development of Virtualisation over recent years, describe the future and what is driving the industry to embrace the technology.

Questions & Answers

Drivers, Technologies and Innovation affecting Storage
Rick Terry
System Storage Consultant, Systems and Technology Group, IBM
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Rick will explore the latest thinking and innovations created by the effect of Rapid data growth in an environment of evermore complex corporate security and compliance management demands. In reviewing these key drivers affecting storage technology he will also discuss the Green agenda and IBM's position in all of this.

Roadmap to the future of storage Solutions - Key issues
Steve Legg
Chief Technical Officer, System Storage, Systems and Technology Group, IBM
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The exponential growth of data is prompting new thinking. Steve takes a practical view of the roadmap ahead for future of storage solutions. Along the way he will address the role and influence played by key issues such as:

- Virtualisation
- De-duplication
- Green
- Security/compliance/archiving solutions
- Disk futures

Server and Storage Virtualization - a review of IBM engagements and best practices
Simon Hodkin
Systems Architect, Senior IT specialist, Systems and Technology Group, IBM
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With multiple IBM server platforms, several different storage technologies and many third-party virtualization software stacks available, how do you build the best solution for the client? This session will look at why clients chose particular elements of IBM technology to build their virtualized environments and some of the criteria used in making these choices.

Relaxed and informal EXPERT CLINICS will be available for both server and storage issues enabling you to get first hand detailed advice and guidance to your questions with the speakers and Innovation Centre experts.