3 - 5 June 2013 , Kuwait FEATURED SPEAKERS yy Hossam Darra
Regional Director, Pre-sales & Cloud, Hewlett Packard, MEMA
Topic: The Data Center of the Future Software defined cloud enabled data center
yy Jack McArdle
Independent Data Centre Consultant, Kirlaur Ltd. Topic: Data Centre Efficiency
yy Bashar Al-Abdulhadi CEO, KuwaitNET
Topic: Cloud Computing and Virtualization on Facility and IT Infrastructure Configuration
yy Antoine Baz, CCIE6807, CISA
Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems, Middle East Datacenter Topic: Cloud Computing
yy Dr. Hans Christoph Capellaro
Director, MENA Information Security Advisory Services - Ernst & Young Kuwait Topic: Data Center Market Potentials in the GCC .
yy Rami Kichli
Country Sales Manager – Kuwait & Bahrain, SAP Middle East & North Africa LLC Topic: A New Cloud World : Rethinking your Business in this New Paradigm
yy Mubarak Saad AlDossary
Independent consultant, Saudi Arabia
Topic: Key Steps to Achieving Energy Efficiency in the Data Center
yy Ibrahim Metwalli KBM Senior Architect,
Topic: Green Data Centers with IBM Technologies
yy Niraj Mathur
Manager – Security Practice, GBM HQ
Topic: - Top Security Trends in 2012 - Future Security Trends Predicted - Approach to Security - How can GBM help?
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INTRODUCTION Escalating demands for ever more efficient services have placed pressures on the data center and the Infrastructure & Operations organization. People in charge of the Information Technology have become more concerned with how to enable business growth by looking at leveraging mobility, cloud services, storage innovations, virtualization and more. At the same time, data center and I&O leaders are being asked to optimize costs all while modernizing legacy environments. Hence, Kuwait Data Centers Conference & Expo will bring together major players in the industry to discuss critical topics including power availability, cooling solutions, green IT, and operation maintenance that confronts the day to day actions of the data center operators.
Through analyst sessions, problem-solving workshops and peer interaction, you›ll gain the insight necessary to: yy yy yy yy yy yy
Deliver IT operational excellence and greater business value Reduce your IT infrastructure costs Demonstrate the value of IT and IT services Manage aging infrastructures and increase efficiency and flexibility Deal effectively with space, power and cooling issues Develop the best cloud and mobility strategies for your organization
Main issues to be addressed: yy yy yy yy yy yy
Overview of the Data Center Market in Kuwait Power Quantity as well as Power Quality Key Steps to Achieving Energy Efficiency in the Data Center Case Studies on Data Center Power Solutions, Cooling Solutions, Security and IT Solutions Building Green Data Centers in Kuwait Cloud Computing and Virtualization on Facility and IT Infrastructure Configuration
CONFERENCE TOPICS Data center communication yy Intra/inter DC communication yy Network protocols yy Security Data center virtualization yy Hardware support yy Hypervisors yy Virtualized storage
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
Data center performance yy Power / Reliability yy Performance evaluation/modeling Data center applications yy Cloud computing yy Content distribution yy Hadoop applications Data center systems yy DC architectures yy Resource allocation
yy Content distribution yy Empirical studies Data center virtualization yy Hardware support yy Hypervisors yy Virtualized storage Data center applications yy Cloud computing yy Content distribution yy Hadoop applications
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? IT professionals including: yy IT Infrastructure yy IT Operations yy The Data Center yy Storage
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IT Architecture Mobile Device Management Facilities Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
MASTERCLASS:
TOWARDS EFFICIENCY IN THE DATA CENTRE 5th JUNE 2013 INTRODUCTION This paper lays out the structure and delivery information relating to a 4 hour Workshop entitled, Data Centre Efficiency. The Workshop will be split notionally into a number of sections allowing time for audience input, questions and answers at the end of each section and a summing up at the end of the workshop
WORKSHOP AGENDA Introduction to Workshop
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Basic Housekeeping Kirlaur Ltd, experience, what we do etc. Aims and Objectives of Workshop
Green Grid
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Efficiency and the Metrics Available
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The need for metrics
What it is and how to calculate it What it is and how to calculate it What it is and how to calculate it What it is and how to calculate it
Data Centre Compute Efficiency (DCcE)
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What it is and how to calculate it
Pros and Cons of each Metric
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Energy Re-Use Factor (ERF) Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)
Recognising the need for improvements
Energy Re-Use Efficiency (ERE)
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Making the Gains
Efficiency Improvements
Data Centre Infrastructure Efficiency (DCIe)
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Green Energy Coefficient (GEC)
The different types
Partial Power Usage Effectiveness (pPUE)
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Global Harmonization of Metrics
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What it is and how it helps
The usefulness of metrics
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
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Efficiency versus Reliability
Brief Q and A and feedback etc.
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Business drivers Other drivers
Finding the losses Electrical Systems
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Transformer UPS Generator Sub-System
Mechanical Systems
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Mechanical resilience
What can we do today?
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ASHRAE guidance Temperature Control Branch Metering Lighting and other domestic usage Changing the thought process
What can we do in the future?
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New build thoughts UPS improvements SMART Buildings Metric Reporting Codes of Conduct Best Practice
IT Systems
HVAC Different Types
Close Out Session
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Power resilience
Questions and Answers User Experience
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Ghost Servers Replicated servers Under Utilisation Virtual Machines
COURSE LEADER Jack McArdle
Independent Data Centre Consultant , Kirlaur Ltd
Education: - BSc (Hons) Electrical Engineering – University of Glasgow - MSc Information Systems Engineering – University of Westminster - HNC Optical Physics – Glasgow College of Technology Memberships: - Member, Institute of Electrical Engineers (MIET) - Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (MIEEE) - Member, British Computing Society (MBCS) - Member, Institute of Project Management (MPMI) - Fellow, British Trust for Ornithology (FBTO)
He started initially in Telecommunications, installing and commissioning Automatic Telephone Exchanges across the UK, and Northern Africa. After spending some time on the design modifications team for System-X, the first truly digital exchange he moved into Data Networking, working firstly in Academia with University of Glasgow and the Joint Academic Network (Janet) team, then latterly as director of a small London based consultancy company working with organisations such as Dun and Bradstreet, Hertz Car Rental (Europe), US Sprint International, Federal Express, Citibank and Nomura Research plc. In the early 1990’s he joined Rank Xerox as part of their Data Centre team moving into Design and Management and since then have designed Data Centres for the Scottish National Health Service, ScoLocate Ltd, Lumison Ltd, Pulsant Ltd, Scotland Online amongst others. He currently the Managing Director of Kirlaur Ltd, a small independent Data Centre Consultancy advising on Design, Build, Best Practise, Efficiency Engineering and Management of the Data Centre
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