PROPOSED AGENDA

0930

Registration, Light Refreshments

1000

Opening Remarks and Welcome Address - IDC India

1005

Agenda & Speaker Introductions

1015

Datacentre Priorities: What is Most Important for End Users?

Sanjit Sinha, Associate VP, Research, IDC India

1045

Innovations for the Data Center Computing 

R. Ravichandran, Director Sales, Intel South Asia

IT faces significant challenges in managing data center cost and efficiency. Servers have proliferated but are often underutilized, leading to higher capital, support, maintenance, and power & cooling costs. The Data Center Infrastructure is evolving and about to change forever. Key technology innovations in Multi-Core, Virtualization, Energy Efficiency, Scalable Performance and Data Center designs are creating on a new generation of computing dynamics. As this generation emerges, traditional paradigms will evolve or disappear altogether. In this session, Intel will discuss new silicon innovations and platform technologies that will become mainstream in the next several years. 

Intel is at the forefront of computing and along with the hardware, software and ecosystem partners, Intel is driving a Data Center vision that meets the needs of IT.

1115

Building a roadmap to your next-generation-data- center for business outcomes 

David Triggs Senior IT Strategy Consultant, Asia Pacific Region, HP

Organizations now expect IT to be more than a cost center. HP's Adaptive Infrastructure is a strategic approach for not only operating IT infrastructure reliably and efficiently, but also as a foundation for an IT function that is an effective business partner in achieving the organizations goals. Revolutionizing IT the way production lines revolutionized manufacturing, Adaptive Infrastructure provides a framework for modularizing, virtualizing and automating IT infrastructure. Addressing the transformation needed to realize a next generation data center environment, a challenge HP is also addressing as part of its own IT transformation, HP's Adaptive Infrastructure Maturity Model (AIMM) uses standard "real-world" metrics based on research and best practice experience as a basis for defining an organization specific roadmap that helps organizations evolve from their current environment to a next-generation data center to reduce operational costs, accelerate speed of IT change and deliver higher quality of service to increase business efficiency delivering business outcomes.

1145

Networking Tea/Coffee Break

1200

Enabling an Energy Efficient Data

Ross Hammond, Product Manager-Asia Pacific, Emerson Network Power

Emerson Network Power designs optimal performance IT Infrastructure that is centered on high 9’s availability but that delivers maximum energy efficiency with minimum environmental impact. In doing so four fundamental elements are addressed to ensure sustainability and long term benefit: Customer Fit, Site Suitability, Optimized and Integrated Infrastructure Solutions and Total Life support. Emerson’s contribution to the IDC InfraVision 2007 seminar series will give an overview of current trends influencing the Data Center world with specific reference to the impact of High Density Computing. Insight into energy efficiency best practice, both from a proactive and corrective perspective, will be covered. With an unparalleled pedigree in supporting critical IT Infrastructure that sees 100% of the Fortune 500 utilizing Emerson Network Power solutions, this presentation will benefit all IT professionals looking for enhanced system availability and flexibility while deploying the most energy efficient systems.

1230 

Challenges in Enterprise Data Centre Management

PK Saji, VP-Technology, Sify Technologies Ltd, Chennai

Sify operates large/mid size data centers in India and provide high end hosting & managed services. There is an increasing complexity in data centre management and trends influencing data center sustenance with reference to the high density computing requirements would be the base line for the presentation. Insight into commercial data centre operations & management and challenges on legacy data centers would be relevant for IT professionals and CIOs today.

1300

10 GbE Virtual Data Center Architectures

Dharmendra Kumar, Country Sales Manager, FORCE 10, India

Consolidation of data center resources offers an opportunity for architectural transformation based on the use of scalable, high density, high availability technology solutions, such as high port-density 10 GbE switch/routers, cluster and grid computing, blade or rack servers, and network attached storage. Consolidation also opens doors for virtualization of applications, servers, storage, and networks. This suite of highly complementary technologies has now matured to the point where mainstream adoption in large data centers has been occurring for some time

1330

EGENERA - Presentation

Bhimesh Rao, VP India Operations, Egenera Asia Pacific

1340

Wipro - Presentation

Vijay Khanna, Manager – System Integration Projects, Wipro

1400

Networking Lunch

1445

Cisco Data Centre 3.0: The Next Generation Data Centre Vision

Sumit Mukhija, Manager, National Business Development, Storage and Datacenter

Cisco has a vision for next-generation data centers called Data Center 3.0. In this vision, Cisco introduced a broad array of innovative new data center products and solutions that will enable customers to better utilize their data center resources, deploy more robust business continuance, build cost-effective storage area networks, and enhance data security. Cisco Data Center 3.0 entails the real-time, dynamic orchestration of infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized server, storage and network resources, while optimizing application performance, service levels, efficiency and collaboration.

1515

Achieving high availability for enterprise banking solution

Radhika Santhanakrishnan, Product Line Manager, Finacle Software Performance Engineering, INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD

Complexity, volume, 24*7 business service requirements and size of operations have increased the need for high availability within the banking environment today. The benefits of well designed highly available solutions are not merely restricted to the technology domain. There are several important business benefits such as increasing competitive advantage, improved profitability, ensuring regulatory compliance and protecting corporate reputation. 

1545

Green & Virtualize next-generation-data-centre

Philip Saunders, Senior Technical Consultant, HP APJ Presales, Technology Solutions Group, Asia Pacific and Japan Region, HP

Every year organizations around the world innovate through greater use of IT. While the hardware that powers this innovation continues to offer improved price-performance, the ever increasing power requirement of IT equipment is rapidly becoming a significant component of overall IT operation cost, and a significant proportion of total power generated; and consequently a noticeable contributor to greenhouse emissions. HP leads the IT industry in addressing these challenges through a range of initiatives that extend from recycling programs to delivering lower IT costs through more efficient power and cooling that help to reduce the global impact of IT on the environment. With a vision for addressing power and cooling challenges that extends from chip to chiller, HP has introduced innovative technologies including more efficient power and cooling, virtualization, automation to optimization of data center through Dynamic Smart Cooling, Virtualization and Automation. These solutions allow HP and our customers to reduce IT costs while demonstrating environmental responsibility.

1615

Networking Tea/Coffee Break

1630

Interactive Panel Discussion-cum-Q&A

All speakers and invited audience
Moderator: Sanjit Sinha, Associate VP, Research, IDC India

1650 

Lucky Draw (Apple iPod) + Prize for 5 Best Delegate Questions

1 no. Apple iPod Nano (8GB) + 5 nos. Encyclopedia Britannica 2008+ 1 no. Weekend Strolly to be won!

1700

Vote of Thanks and End of Conference

Note: Agenda details subject to change, as deemed necessary, at the discretion of IDC