DatacenterDynamics USA consolidates and expands its portfolio into three must-attend events in 2015
- Written by Fran Cator
New York October 29th, 2014 DatacenterDynamics, the global provider of media and services to the data center industry, announced today it is radically consolidating and expanding its US events program. Together with a significant evolution of its conference program it will transform nine one-day regional-market events to three much larger-scale two-day conferences focused on the three primary data center vertical classes – Enterprise, Internet and Services.
ENTERPRISE
March 17/18, 2015
New York Marriott Marquis
Meeting the needs of the enterprise data center community of end-users and operators dealing with the increasingly complex and heterogeneous mission critical environment.
INTERNET
July 30/31, 2015
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
Meeting the needs of the internet data center community of end-users and operators tracking the retail, wholesale and hyper scale continuum.
SERVICES
October 27/28, 2015
Chicago Hilton
Meeting the needs of the growing data center service provider community and how they provision next generation services from cloud to everything as a service.
Each Converged event is a comprehensive multi-track conference produced in order to drive collaborative thinking on the most important topics that face the industry. Tracks include:
IT+NETWORKS
Focused on helping senior strategists understand the implications of IT and Network transformation on data center design and architecture.
ENVIRONMENT
Focused on the issues faced by professionals who manage the performance, efficiency and resilience of the critical environment.
DESIGN+STRATEGY
Focused on the issues faced by senior decision makers responsible for the organizational strategy and design of on-premise data centers.
APP>CLOUD
Focused on issues faced by professionals that manage blended/ hybrid infrastructures and the technical/regulatory challenges of delivering critical ICT through the cloud.
SECURITY+RISK
Focused on helping professionals tasked with assessing the risk and managing the security of evermore-distributed mission critical infrastructure and ICT systems.
Recently appointed CEO of DCD Group and DatacenterDynamics founder George Rockett said: “Taking a leaf out of the data center handbook, we are consolidating up into bigger, bolder and deeper events with a strong vertical focus. This is what the data center community now needs.”
Rockett continued: “‘Converged Decision Making’, is a mega trend which underpins these product changes. It reflects the fact that all corporate IT infrastructure decisions are interconnected and inseparably interdependent - for example, a data center’s network technology choices will now influence how and where you will build that next data center, or whether you will even need to.”
Bruce Taylor, formally of the Uptime Institute/451 Reserach and recently appointed executive vice-president of DCD North America said: “I am extremely excited at the prospect of helping DatacenterDynamics to yet again transform the data center industry with this new winning strategy.”
“It is refreshing to be part of a truly dynamic organization which has the talent, ideas and stamina to provide data centers with a new strategic direction in a time of difficult transition. DatacenterDynamics is considered by many leading data center professionals as an ‘intelligence engine’ for the data center industry; I think this new program is another giant step forward.”
DatacenterDynamics new consolidated global event calendar for 2015 is as follows:
EUROPE & MIDDLE EAST
DCD@CeBIT
Hanover, March
DCD United Arab Emirates
Dubai, May
DCD Russia & CIS
Moscow, October
DCD France
Paris, October
DCD Europe
London, November
DCD Turkey
Istanbul, December
UNITED STATES & CANADA
DCD Enterprise
New York, March
DCD Internet
San Francisco, July
DCD Services
Chicago, October
DCD Canada
Toronto, September
SPAIN & LATINAMERICA
DCD Spain
Madrid, April
DCD Peru
Lima, June
DCD Colombia
Bogota, September
DCD Mexico
Mexico City, October
DCD Brazil
Sao Paolo, November
DCD Chile
Santiago, November
CHINA & ASIA PACIFIC
DCD Enterprise China
Shanghai, June
DCD Indonesia
Jakarta, June
DCD Hong Kong
Hong Kong, June
DCD India
Bangalore, July
DCD Australia
Sydney, August
DCD SE Asia
Singapore, October
DCD Services China
Beijing, December