Programme : Discussions by Track
This theatre hosts foremost international cloud leaders, including internationally acclaimed and top-rated visionaries, senior industry speakers and executives driving a global shift towards cloud computing. Speakers will deliver their outlook on the future of cloud, plus leading CIOs and senior IT will be sharing their roadmaps to cloud success.
The Open Cloud Developer Park covers key open source cloud platforms including OpenStack and Open Nebula, and equips you with technical knowledge and hands-on tutorials on today’s main open source IaaS platforms. Plus, in collaboration with our education partner, OW2, you can learn about major European collaborative open cloud projects.
A successful IT strategy must ensure cloud-based resources, services and applications are living up to their promises. Choosing the right way to manage your organisation’s data, service providers, your customers and enabling faster and more efficient technology deployments are the key focus of this theatre’s content.
The cloud ecosystem must continue to embrace new technologies and interoperability strategies to ensure customers reap the cloud’s rewards and stay ahead of competitors. This track is packed full of European CSPs, cloud leaders and analysts; it covers key technologies that CSPs and the technology ecosystem must embrace to retain and win new customers.
The security and compliance theatre, run in collaboration with the Cloud Security Alliance, will feature renowned international speakers and include topics such as novel architectures for data security governance (e.g. Software Defined Perimeter), SecuritySLA and continuous monitoring, cloud security certifications (e.g. STAR Certification), tools and mechanism for European Privacy compliance, security framework for GovCloud, Quantum Safe Security.
CIF is committed to ensure trust, transparency and confidence in the delivery of Cloud Services to business users. CIF’s members and leading industry speakers debate key issues impacting the development of the industry and share best practice strategies for both service providers and enterprises. The programme includes Case Studies from CIF certified providers, demonstrating how CSPs ensure they are accountable to their customers. Companies speaking in the CIF theatre include HP, Trend Micro, Vision Solutions, Box, and Ingram Micro.
For the best operators, the cloud promises enhanced services for customers, whilst generating financial rewards for business owners and shareholders. This theatre covers business models for cloud service providers, hosters, telcos, ISPs, VARs, SIs and ISVs looking to extend their own cloud
services or partner with other service providers and cloud businesses.
The use of cloud technology across organisations of all shapes and sizes is growing rapidly – but is your business keeping pace with the latest and greatest technologies? This conference track hosts discussions on leading-edge cloud technologies and services, alongside live product demonstrations from cloud vendors and service providers.
The take up of Virtualisation still continues to increase at a rapid rate and as more and more businesses are using virtual, cloud infrastructures and storage technologies. Our headline speakers will explore why the right strategies and simplified infrastructure will offer a solid proposition for
large and small enterprises alike.
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IoT is the third wave of Internet development. The IoT has the potential to connect 28 billion “things” to the Internet by 2020, ranging from wearables to cars – up from 2000s’ mobile wave of around 3 billion users and the 1990s’ fixed internet wave of 1 billion users. It’s clear IoT is not a fad, and for businesses using the IoT whilst harnessing the power of Big Data alongside, it will be revolutionary, especially for the organisations that can effectively use analytics to transform the data into meaningful business insight and competitive advantage.
Data & analytics is one of the hottest topics for today’s technologists and business leaders, as the most savvy organisations know that a rock-solid, no stone unturned data game plan is the best way to unearth new business strategies, customers and revenue streams. This track highlights the best way to capture, curate, store, search, share, transfer, analyse and visualise your data.
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The enterprise and CSPs continue to require more and more bandwidth. The static architecture of conventional networks must evolve. This theatre addresses the latest SDN and SDDC technologies better suited to meet the dynamic computing and storage needs of today’s data centres, campuses, carrier environments, applications, BYOD boom, infrastructure and tomorrow’s IT resources.
As business needs change and capacity requirements increase, how will you adapt your data centre to manage an ever changing, expansive landscape? The Data Centre World Keynote Theatre contains answers to a multitude of challenges that will allow you to plan and manage your data centre of the future. The largest data centre operators on the planet will be providing key content and case study presentations, you need to be there, your future depends on it!
All the latest developments in tools, product solutions and services to help you maximise energy efficiency and reduce cost management.
The boom of on-demand cloud services, both public and private, the mobile workforce, distributed data centres, big data, all means more bandwidth is needed and the static architecture of conventional networks must evolve. This theatre addresses the latest SDN and software defined data centre and network technologies better suited to meet the dynamic computing and storage needs of today's data centre, campuses, carrier environments, applications, BOYD boom, infrastructure and today and tomorrow's IT resources.
