The New BICSI Data Centre Standard
Mr Chris Molloy
CEO - TEX Solutions
Member of BICSI

The Legal Issues for Cloud Computing

An analysis of some of the opportunities of cloud computing and a consideration of six key legal issues and practical steps to address these:

• privacy sovereignty and competing legal jurisdictions;
• reliability/SLAs;
• vendor lock in;
• escrow and e-discovery;
• security;
• due diligence and transparency

Mr Mark Vincent
Partner
Truman Hoyle Lawyers

Build Once, Operate Constantly

Does resilience = security? A data centre is designed for continuity of service and this requires a huge investment. The cost multiplies dramatically as the level of resilience is increased but the main cause of unplanned downtime is not “equipment” but “people”. The level of investment in “the human factor” is typically not given the priority it deserves. Having the right people, good systems and proven processes in place can greatly reduce or eliminate unplanned outages.

Mr Greg Wallace
National Director
Engineering & Operations Solutions
Jones Lang LaSalle

Revolutionizing Data Centre Energy Efficiency
Mr Keni MUTO
Associate Principal
Business Technology, Singapore Office
McKinsey & Company

Securing a Data Centre – It’s Not All about Locks & Cameras

With the recent discussions in the Data Centre industry on sustainability, tiers, reliability, cooling etc, have we forgotten about security? Is it a waste of effort installing highly reliable infrastructure without appropriately protecting these systems from either planned attach or user mistakes.

Mr John Curtis
Director
IPP Consulting

What has happened to Project Delivery since the Global Financial Crisis?

A presentation that will examine the challenges, and provide some solutions, for organisations seeking to deliver both major programs and minor projects in the current environment.

Mr Nick Mescher
CEO
UXC Consulting Group

Variable Airflow in Data Centres

Surveys confirm that most data centres are vastly oversupplied with airflow. Significant improvements in the effectiveness of airflow usage and energy savings can be made with the use of variable air flow strategies to precisely match IT loads in the data centre. Stulz’s air management systems are easy to deploy for a host of instant benefits.

Mr Mark Ebert
Technical Solutions Engineer
Stulz Australia

Flexible Power Infrastructure that Contributes to your Triple Bottom Line.

Demand for IT services is growing exponentially. Data centre players must advance to manage the challenges faced in this dynamic environment. Standardising infrastructure enables rapid and reliable deployment of computing power, achieving low power usage effectiveness (PUE) while ensuring flexibility to meet future demands and maintain availability.

Mr Chris Wering
Sales Manager
Thycon

So you’re using ITIL for Operations: How about the rest of the lifecycle

Most organisations begin the ITIL journey with Service Desk, Incident, Event Management and Change. There are some logical follow on related processes from Service Operations and Transition but what’s next? It’s clear that a full service lifecycle could add value but why is it so hard to make headway?

Mr David Favelle
Director
Lucid IT & UXC Consulting Services

Achieving Energy Efficient Outcomes Competitively for True High Density Demands.

With power density on the rise and demand for greater efficiency, Jon discusses real world examples of the issues confronted when accommodating customers using in excess of 30KW per rack in an environmentally conscious yet commercially competitive manner. He explores some of the myths behind “green” purchasing decisions and what are the real drivers when it comes to securing the best high density customers.

Mr Jon Eaves
CEO
E3 Networks
On behalf of APC by Schneider Electric

A New, Highly Reliable, Efficient and Economic Solution for Secure Power Systems in Large Data Centre Environments.

The capacity and the power demand of Data Centres are increasing rapidly. Traditional approaches to electrical architecture and application of UPS systems are somewhat limited in meeting the needs of today’s growing Data Centres. Piller presents a solution to manage a clean, reliable and most cost effective power supply system for large size Data Centres.

Mr Jonathan Davis
Managing Director
Piller Australia Pty Ltd

Energy Efficient Computing - Expanding the Role of Scheduling

The ever increasing energy consumption for powering and cooling is a major limiting factor particularly in economic sustainability of data centres. This talk will review some of the important questions related to the development of new algorithms and tools for energy–aware resource management.

Mr Young Choon Lee
Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing, School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney

The Next Generation ICT Infrastructure. Next Generation Solutions for your Evolving Networks

While rapid advances in technology have given enterprises more computer firepower, they have also resulted in data centers that are resource-hungry, more complex and more expensive to manage. How can today’s complex data centers be made easier to operate? How can IT executives lower their OPEX? How can these issues be addressed without diluting critical levels of availability? These are the pressing issues addressed by Emerson Network Power in its breakout session, "Efficiency Without Compromise."

Diesel Rotary UPS Solutions; The most Efficient, Economic and Environmentally Conscious Solution for the Continuous Support of both Critical IT and Cooling loads

Hitec’s presentation is aimed at Clients, and their Consultants, with vital data/IT requirements and who value reliability, resilience and maximising the user benefits of their UPS equipment. The presentation explains why Hitec’s Diesel Rotary UPS solution is considered as the most Economic, Efficient and Environmentally conscious approach for the provision of secure power, and how Hitec’s ‘E3’ approach will provide continuous support for large, critical and complex load profiles within minimised budgets.

Mr Chris Dow
Sales Director
Hitec Power Protection Asia Pacific

Past, Present & Future - Compute Environment Efficiencies and How this aides in Reducing Carbon Footprint and the Operational Cost of the DC

University of New South Wales (UNSW) has been running a combined Change Program to improve management, configuration, utilisation and efficiencies of its existing data centres, and the technologies within them. Whilst transforming their existing data centres and infrastructure, originally built in the 80s & 90s, UNSW has a just completed building a modern high density, energy efficient data centre for the 2020s.

Mr Charles Nolan
Projects
IT Infrastructure
UNSW IT Services

Mr James Dawson
Enterprise IT Architect
IT at UNSW

UPS Design and Selection Practices that Deliver the Optimum Technical, Commercial and Environmental Outcome.

UPS system design now demands a response to required technical performance, scalability, reliability, whole of life costs, and environmental impact.
Meeting these End User demands requires the application of 3 key concepts –
• Deployment of scalable systems
• Use of efficient operating modes
• An evaluation of the total cost of ownership

Mr Carlo Quiriconi
Technical Services Manager
Chloride Australia

Hitzinger Dynamic UPS Systems: “Achieve more with less.”

As the power demands of Data Centres continue to grow, end-users and consultants search for better critical power solutions in an effort to reduce costs, improve reliability and minimise environmental impact.

The lesson to be learnt from large scale installations is that the best critical power solutions achieve more with less. At the big end of town where kinetic energy is the dominant method of energy storage, dynamic solutions deliver more power with less waste, more reliability with less complexity, and more availability with less maintenance. They save on space, they save on running costs and they save the environment.

Mr Siegfried Bernecker
Division Manager
Hitzinger Austria

Learning To Implement a Green Data Centre Strategy

The first globally accredited Green Information Technology course for computer professionals commenced in January 2009. The course uses the web to teach how to measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sponsored by the Australian Computer Society as part of an international program for professional education, the course now run at the masters level by the Australian National University. Course designer Tom Worthington discusses how to build strategies for green computing, reducing the total cost of ownership with consolidated data centres and applications.

Mr Tom Worthington
Independent ICT Consultant &
Adjunct Senior Lecturer – Department of Computer Science
Australian National University

UPS Topologies - Project Performance Comparisons

Four of the most common UPS system topologies will be compared for dependability and whole-of-life performance. Based on recent projects designed and constructed, this is a case study approach to the puzzle of “which UPS topology best suits my project?”.

Mr Rowan Peck
Director
Norman Disney & Young

Best Practice in Data Centre Design.
Tier 4 vs Multi Tier 2

Mr Dan Pointon
Regional Director
Hurleypalmerflatt

Data Centre Energy Efficiency.
Energy Efficiency of Information, Communications and Telecommunications (ICT) Data Centres.

We all know that data energy efficiency is important. We are all trying to get costs down. What is driving data centre costs? Why are data centres so hot? What is happening in the latest research? Everyone is doing virtualisation - so that good. Where are the next innovations? Where should we spend our next dollar to improve energy efficiency? How can we save/make money? As a IT manager or data centre manager what should I be doing to improve energy efficiency?

Mr Michael Cook
Postgraduate Master of Engineering (Sustainable Energy)
RMIT University

A Strategic Approach to Power Monitoring: An Extra Umbrella of Protection for your IT Infrastructure

The drive for increased energy efficiencies, the constant moves additions and changes to IT equipment, along with disparate IT and facility monitoring and organisational structures can reduce the data centre’s power infrastructure efficiency and reliability.

Mr Ciaran Bolton
Product Manager,
Data Centre Solutions
Eaton Industries, Electrical Group

Integrated Commissioning of Today’s Data Centres for Tomorrow

Effective commissioning is of utmost importance if the complex systems installed to support data centres are to operate without fault. Properly integrated design, installation, set up, and transition to operate processes will yield higher reliability, lower operational risks, reduced operational costs and importantly, a smaller Carbon footprint. A.G. Coombs unique approach to integrated commissioning has successfully provided mission critical facilities with the surety that their infrastructure systems are not only commissioned to operate for today but are also fit for tomorrow.

Mr Jeff Mansfield
Project Engineer (ICA)
A.G. Coombs Advisory Pty Ltd

Innovative Data Centre Cooling at the University of Southern Queensland

In 2009 USQ implemented a “New Generation” Data Centre that ticks all the boxes for being environmentally friendly, highly efficient, scalable and sustainable. The Data Centre uses new generation chilled water-cooling technology providing free cooling of the input water for six months of the year. This session will focus on the technology solution adopted and provide comparative-running costs over the previous CRAC based solution.

Mr Brian Kissell
Chief Technology Officer
University of Southern Queensland

Critical Energy Management System for Data Centers

In the data center market today, the competitive advantage goes to those who provide the best Reliability. Tomorrow, the leading companies will be those that provide the best reliability at the lowest costs! Data Centers have large complex distribution systems. Maintaining and troubleshooting the distribution system requires timely information from many critical points.

Mr Stamatis Levantis
Business Manager, Power Distribution Solutions
Siemens, North America

Modular Data Centres - The Evolution to Green and Flexible

A look at the driving forces behind the rise of Modular Data Centres, the variations in designs that have emerged and how these address different issues in the move to greener data centres.

Mr James Hills
Principal Consultant
SGI Professional Services

DC Planning & The Impact of BIAs

Mr Barry Pendle
Business Continuity Institute

Helping the CIO, CFO and Regulators Communicate About “Green” Data Centers
&
Tier Classification System for Data Centers
Facts vs. Myths and Confusion


Mr Kenneth G. Brill
Founder
Uptime Institute
(Harbour Hall)

Evening Drinks Reception - Open Industry Discussion (Harbour Hall)