Day One: Wednesday 10th February, 2010

Best Practice Data Centre Management

9.00 Welcoming Remarks From The Chair

9.10 Analysing The Challenges Of Initiating Extensive Refurbishment In A Live Environment

• Maintaining continuity of services while in process of making power alterations, equipment changes etc
• Eliminating impact on your data centre and business process: highlighting the main objectives and processes towards success
• Getting a lot more redundant environment: experiencing greater capabilities
• Improving efficiency of the environment: looking at future possibilities within the data centre

Paul Gilmour
Data Centre Manager
COLES

9.50 Developing A Comprehensive Data Centre Management: Lowering Costs And Reducing Complexity Of Your Data Centre

• Improving operational efficiencies across the organisation
• Consolidating data protection operations across its data centre environment
• Analysing backup and restore capabilities: backing up over 140 terabytes of data each day whilst improving backup success rates by 10 percent
• Designing and implementing a high availability and disaster recovery programme
• Deploying a clustered environment that taps clusters up to 15 nodes across Telstra’s business-critical Sun Solaris based servers
• Sharing data between multiple hosts: saving millions of dollars in hardware, software, and maintenance
• Gaining better flexibility of tiered EMC storage environment:
  • Moving data archiving to tier-three storage versus tier-one storage
  • Avoiding additional tier-one disk storage purchases, equating to significant cost avoidance

Jon Curry
Group Manager - Managed Data Centres
TELSTRA

10.30 Morning Tea & Networking

11.00 OPEN DISCUSSION: Analysing Best Practice Infrastructure Management

• Measuring your performance and functionality: getting that extra 10% efficiency
• Ensuring applications are functioning correctly
• Achieving a higher level of process maturity within your data centre
• Creating sustainable solutions: initiating a holistic approach to managing your data centre including its physical entity
• Establishing improvement areas for your data centre

11.40 Receiving A Good ROI For Your Data Centre Upgrade: A Strategic Approach

• Developing an effective business case to consolidate your findings
• Investigating costs involved to ensure correct investment is made: getting the balance right
• Delivering continued performance with consolidation
• Calculating where to focus your efforts to deliver the greatest ROI to your company

Matthew Proctor
Head of Data Centre Business
PRIMUS

12.20 Meeting Current And Future Demands: Ensuring Your Data Centre Is Sustainable

• Ensuring storage needs have the necessary business continuity and disaster recovery plans
• Considering the right amount of storage needed: Upgrading parts of the system
• Identifying how to use high density equipment for operational purposes
• Maintaining agreed service level

Glenn Allan
Infrastructure Transformation Manager Data Centre & Green IT
NAB

2.00 Start Of Power Tables

DCM’s unique roundtable format will allow for Australia’s leading experts on Data Centres to deliver critical information to the delegates in half an hour bursts. Delegates will be split into groups and rotated around the conference venue for 2 hours in the afternoon of each conference day.

This original conference format is set to deliver unmatched value to attendees as each table debates the advantages, challenges, trials and successes of new technologies that are in the market.

POWER TABLE A: Effective Strategies for Maximising the Efficiency of Your Cooling System: Blowing Cost Savings Your Way

When people think about energy savings, data centre air-conditioning fans don’t necessarily jump to mind. However, choosing the right cooling and design can save thousands over its’ life. Electricity costs today represent the fastest rising cost category in data centers, and a big chunk of that energy costs can be attributed to cooling equipment. With increasing changes in the type cooling systems, this round table will discover the best option to make your data centre more energy efficient, including how to:

• Find unpredictable and inefficient airflow patterns in your data centre
• Strategically placing your cooling equipment for predictably and optimum performance

Gary Hitchman
Sales Manager
UNIFLAIR AUSTRALIA

POWER TABLE B: Building an Efficient Information Infrastructure to Store, Protect, Optimise and Leverage your Information

Information is your most precious asset and is the core of any business. Availability of your information is necessary to create the flexibility to navigate challenging market conditions and compete effectively in today’s rapidly changing environment. This round table will show you how you can:

• Manage more data, more efficiently: keeping information available and secure
• Get high availability, scalability, and flexibility in your storage to manage and consolidate more data
• Simplify and automate key tasks including monitoring, reporting, planning, and provisioning
• Analyse effective data migration, and host-based encryption: delivering extensive storage resource management capabilities

3.00 Afternoon Tea

POWER TABLE C: Discussing Effective Data Deduplication: Best Practise Initiatives

How you manage backup of important data assets is critical to business success. This round table will look at data deduplication, and why it’s such an important technology to consider in your overall data protection strategy, including dramatic savings in space, power, cooling and overall costs including

• Getting a fast, reliable backup and restores: increasing the number of recovery points, whilst using less disk capacity
• Reducing network bandwidth needed for replication: providing automated DR and site-loss protection using existing networks
• Analysing the industry’s most advanced data deduplication technology
• Investigating industry-leading case studies: choosing right deduplication policy for your business
• Highlighting how you can do sophisticated dedupe in an integrated manner

POWER TABLE D: Re-evaluating Your Servers & Racks: Gaining Optimum Efficiency and Benefits from What You Already Have In Place

Many data centres don’t put much thought into their server racks beyond basic functionality and the upfront costs of the rack itself. However, server racks house millions of dollars worth of hardware, safeguarding all processed data, transactions, and intellectual property. They are the last line of physical security, and most importantly, no cooling approach can exist without taking the server rack into account. This round table will delve into how you can better

• Utilise your data centre space, flexibility, and operations
• Optimise the performance of your servers for maximum efficiency
• Re-evaluate your entire rack system for conventional, convective cooling or hot air recirculation
• Adding capacity to your data centre without the major overhaul: knowing what will work for your centre

Samy Labbad
General Manager
RACK TECHNOLOGIES

4.30 Closing Remarks From Conference Chair

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