The biggest line up of user speakers set to attract a record audience of data centre professionals

THE EVENT’S conference programme promises to be better than any paid for data centre event and is free to attend for data centre professionals. Data Centre World will run at Frankfurt Messe 28-29th October and will feature more than 100 relevant exhibitors plus a conference featuring more than fifty real case studies from client operated data centres and major third party data centre providers. Real insights into how users are overcoming the major challenges of building and operating data centres.

Wolfgang Kuhl, CIO of Pharmaserv will talk through the perils and pitfalls of building a data centre based on his experience and covering specifically the need to balance demands of aspects including air conditioning, power distribution and safety engineering.

From the public sector Ing. Christian Altenberger from the City of Vienna will share the experiences of developing the authority’s data centre – the first in Austria to receive a 5 star audit from the Association of the German Internet Industry, including a focus on project management, costs and sticking to budget, as well as technical challenges.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann de Meer of the University of Passau will share how they have explored power saving and power shifting, working with energy service providers to identify most cost effective consumption patterns. It’s one of a number of sessions that directly address the key challenges of running a data centre.

Walter Säckl, Head of Data Centres for leading German publisher Weltbild focuses on the issue of energy efficiency and will outline the possible approaches he looked at as well as a case study of the route they eventually took. The session will also look at future developments and plans.

Lucas Cardholm, CIO of Coromatic group will present a case study of managing data centre facilities with variable costs using DCIM reporting. He has applied the same methodology as we are used to in virtualised IT environments to data centre facilities and services, and will explain how to use DCIM as a reporting and planning tool.

Other speakers include the Heads of Data Centre for West German Radio (WDR) and Deutsche Bahn and from 3rd party data centre providers we have Markus Dietrich of Interoute, Markus Steckhan of Interxion and Donald Badoux, MD of Equinix.

Other case studies and user speakers include CIOs and Heads of Data Centres from insurance companies DAK Gesundheit and Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG Köln, major utilities companies Stadtwerke Schwäbisch Hall and RWE plus BskyB, Amadeus Group and Hörmann KG Verkaufsgesellschaft. It’s the most significant line up of real users sharing their experiences, how they overcame problems and challenges and offering those running data centres real practical insights.

Backing this up are a series of industry experts speaking and exhibiting the full range of solutions for data centres. More than 100 sponsors and exhibitors in total. There’s a vast range of exhibitors covers everything from facility planning and build through to power distribution, cooling, access control, flooring, racks, cables.

Data Centre World Germany is collocated alongside Powering the Cloud
(www.poweringthecloud.de), Germany’s longest running cloud event, which sees a new format for 2014, with an enhanced conference programme and an enlarged exhibition. PTC covers the important cloud topics – from hybrid cloud, to infrastructure, from security through to software defined data centres and networks. Already, the event has won great support from the cloud industry, with its sponsors and content partners, including Amazon Web Services, Equinix, Interxion, Software AG, SAP, NetApp, EMC, Fujitsu, Emulex, Datacore Software, CommVault, Google Enterprise, Interoute and Brocade.

PTC comes at an important time for a booming German cloud market, where attendees (from large enterprise, the Mittelstand, public sector, cloud service providers) have a tremendous thirst for knowledge and information on cloud computing. Plus, the cloud technology vendors and service providers recognise this is the time to build market share in this rapidly expanding market.

With the colocation of PTC and DCW, attendees can learn about and source the products and services to build their cloud technology stack from the ground up – from the data centre to the application layer, it’s covered this October in Frankfurt.

For more details visit www.datacentreworld.de.
Qualified buyers can secure their free ticket for access to both events by entering promo code: P13M14.