Data Center World Global Conference: Managed Services, Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery

With Data Center World Global Conference only being weeks away, conference registrants are gathering thoughts, assessing needs and finalizing schedules. Hosted by Data Center Knowledge, the premier event for the IT industry, which will be held in April at the Mirage Resort in Las Vegas, covers all the essentials for seasoned data center and facilities management professionals. Some of the topics to look for at the conference include managed services, disaster recovery in the cloud and going cloud.

Tad Davies, Senior Vice President, Bick Group, will speak to the elements involved in the whole process of moving to an outsourced provider, in a session titled, “Considerations on Colo (Managed Services). How do you go about defining your needs, finding the right provider, negotiating the deal, and migrating to the space? Davies will review the answers during his session.

Brian Vandegrift, executive vice president of sales and innovation at Venyu, will lead the conversation around planning for disaster recovery and thinking through new options. “A lot of people out there are selling back up and disaster recovery, and they don’t have to do what they sell,” he told Data Center Knowledge.

“Disaster recovery today is easy, it’s not that much heavy lifting. You used to have to have backup tapes and ship them around the country,” he said. “The technology has evolved where it is easy to orchestrate and to fail back to production.”

Daniel Pfeiffer, vice president of Marketing & Partnerships at OrionVM, and Sheng Yeo, OrionVM CEO, will be hosting a session on getting to the cloud and how IT professionals can squeeze the most out of white space.

“Every day we are talking to data centers about how do they make their white space a commodity? How do they make $20,000 or $30,000 per rack instead of $2,000?” Pfeiffer said. The answer, he says, is leveraging a wholesale cloud partner.

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