The 9th Annual DCD Converged to Mark on SE Asia Data Center Needs
DCD Converged to host its 9th annual conference and expo at its best-loved Marina Bay Sands. This time the heavyweight two-day format is expected to host 2,000+ senior business, operations and technology professionals from South East Asia’s reinvigorating data center sector.
The two-day conference programme will divergently address on infrastructure and IT architecture deployment strategies, design and operational efficiency, as well as on platform interoperability, IT sourcing, and demand-side dynamics.
Alongside interactive workshops, a series of CxO roundtables and an expanded expo floor with 80+ exhibits showcasing the latest technologies is expected to be seen.
As the main feature of Singapore Data Center Week, the conference is attracting a diverse audience concerned with IT transformation.
Key notions to target:
- Data center design and lifecycle management to data sovereignty and cloud security initiatives.
- Recent high-profile data center failures will be analysed alongside trends like Software Defined Data Centers.
- StackingIT, an all-new knowledge component will focus on theopen-sourcing of the data center and the potential disruption of moving from proprietary to non-proprietary frameworks for technology development and acquisition.
- Cole Crawford, founding executive director of the Open Compute Project will deliver a keynote.
Sharing insights on the Grandee Conference, Vincent Liew, GM Asia Pacific for DatacenterDynamics said, “Our production team has gone to great effort to encapsulate every facet of this complex business sector within the conference programme. Delegates will hear some of the sharpest minds in the industry debate the hottest topics”.
George Rockett, CEO at DatacenterDynamics discoursed “As the Internet of Things, smart cities, big data and cloud drive the IT industry forward into unchartered territory, it is vitally important to not forget the engine that powers them – the data center. “DCD has transformed over the last 4 years to become a truly holistic data center event that covers the whole IT stack as well as the mission critical services and engineering part. We are creating a collaborative environment where the many professional disciplines that touch the data center within large scale operators and end-users can come together to find cross-stack solutions.”
Clement Goh, Managing Director, Equinix, South Asia, a headline sponsor, added, “DCD Converged is an excellent networking platform for the industry. Equinix is a foremost brand in this market and we’re excited to be a lead sponsor for the 2nd year running as we see the long-term value that the show brings to all players in the ecosystem.”
This year’s agenda has 90 speakers arranged across 80 sessions, including CxO participation from the majority of data center service providers in South East Asia.
Further info: http://singaporedatacenterweek.com/.
