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27.09. Frankfurt: Presentation Workshop New Study of German DataCentre Market
Over the past 5 months, BroadGroup has conducted research in the German data centre market to evaluate the challenges, opportunities and future growth, players, space, service trends, and energy issues.
The meeting will provide an overview of the study result findings and will also include a panel discussion by the leadership of the data centre and cloud sector in Germany.
Registration is complementary:
datacentresgermany.com
| 09:30 | Registration and Coffee/Tea
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| 10:00 | Presentation of the results of new study, DataCentres Germany
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| 11:00 | Networking Break |
| 11:30 | DataCentres Germany Panel
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| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Cloud Infrastructure Panel
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| 15:00 | Close of Meeting |
3 August 2011
2./3. 11. Frankfurt: Powering the Cloud
‘Powering the Cloud‘ is the exciting new theme for the 2011 editions of SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World taking place on 2nd and 3rd November at Congress Frankfurt.
Cloud computing, impacting almost every size and type of organisation today, is the new wave of IT architecture, a natural evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, service-oriented architectures and utility computing. Together the conferences focus on the key elements of the IT environment including:
- data storage
- data management
- data protection and security for the cloud
- desktop, server, storage and network virtualization
- converged data centre networks
- complementary architectures and technologies
There is no better place to help you understand how to take advantage of these significant new developments as you review your current environment and plan for 2012 and beyond.
Make the trip to Frankfurt in November and experience the exciting new theme ‘Powering the Cloud’. Attend the three co-located events which are delivered in association with influential industry association the SNIA Europe and choose from over 130 conference sessions, take a hands-on approach to the latest technologies, attend SNIA tutorials, meet over 70 leading vendors and mix with almost 1,500 of your peers from across Europe.
Meet your DCSA contacts in Frankfurt at Powering the Cloud!
for further information see: http://clixtrac.com/goto/?47863
2 August 2011
13.-15.09. Internet Security Days 2011
eco is very excited to announce a joint venture with intergenia, the team behind the popular World Hosting Days: the new event collaboration, ‘Internet Security Days’ 2011, will be held 13 to 15 September in the Brühl’s ‘Phantasialand’ theme park.
The elements of Internet Security Days will be a trade fair, talks and networking events. The trade fair is the perfect platform for online security companies to present their latest products and ideas and a superb occasion to make new business contacts.
The talks are a first-class chance to learn directly from the experts. How can current threats be fought and what security issues follow new technical developments?
Last but not least, networking is crucial in every industry sector, but even more in the internet business. The exchange with industry colleagues makes it easier to solve common problems, find new opportunities, and foster your business network.
For more information visit:
Internet Security Days 2011
15 July 2011
18.05. Data Center & Infrastructure – Components, Cabling, Network
After the great success of the roadshow “data centre and infrastructure” Heise Events and iX magazine will organise the next big event:
This year experts will show how to optimise a data center and which cabling infrastructure is suitable for the coming years. After presentation the informal get together is the perfect platform for an exciting exchange of information. Discuss the new knowledge and individual questions with speakers and participants.
eco members will get a discount of 25%
18.05.2011
Am Luftbrückendenkmal 1
CargoCity Süd
60549 Frankfurt
28 April 2011
29.09. Jungmann Community
JST community is the annual major industry event with leaders, decision makers and users in the field of IT Operations, Service Desk, process control rooms, facilities management, traffic engineering and security.
All areas in which a responsible supervisory activity with short reaction times is required. Guests will be informed at the JST community about current issues in the daily business and will be able to connect with each other to communicate on a professional level.
Date and location:
29./30. 09. 2011
Galopprennbahn Bremen
Ludwig-Roselius-Alle 2
28329 Bremen
Further Informations: www.jungmann.de/community.htm
eco is an event partner of the Jungmann Community.
Your friendly eco contacts will be on-site.
7 April 2011
07.-21.06. Virtualisation & Cloud Computing
Partner Solution Days & IT Decision Makers Congress 2011
At the event “Virtualization & Cloud Computing 2011″ not only the high quality, safety and efficiency requirements are supported, but also provided definitions and boundaries for various forms of cloud computing (private, public, hybrid) in a business environment. Leading suppliers and renowned speakers are gathered together to give you a unique perspective. Based on three reference scenarios you will be provided with concrete solutions.
Dates and Locations:
07.06. Frankfurt/Hanau
09.06. Munich
15.06. Hamburg
21.06. Düsseldorf/Neuss
Further Information: www.virtualisierung-2011.de/
EuroCloud Deutschland_eco is an event partner.
eco-/EuroCloud-members can participate for FREE when applying until May 6th.
After May 6th you can register with a reduced ticket price of 149,- EUR
Ask for a VIP-Codes: info@eurocloud.de
7 April 2011
05.-06.05. DATACENTRES 2011
This year DATACENTRES 2011 is named The Enterprise Year, which is reflected in both the outlook and content, and now in its 7th year, the data centres event for Europe has transformed into a Global meeting place and forum.
With more than 30 countries represented in 2010, the organisers (Broad Group) have teamed up with organisations in Europe and North America whose memberships will extend the breadth of audience and horizon of opportunity.
This year eco is for the first time an Event-Sponsor for Europe’s leading conference for data centre operators, with insight tracks, educational sessions, keynotes, and workshops complemented by a major exhibition and high networking values. Your Datacenter Star Audit-Contacts are pleased to welcome you 5th – 6th May in Nice.
eco members will get 15% Off from the regular price.
For further information send us an Email info@dcaudit.de
28 March 2011
30.06. eco Internet Award 2011
From now until 21st April 2011, all companies with a focus on the Internet industry can apply to be nominated in ten categories for the eco Internet Awards 2011. eco – the Association of the German Internet Industry is hosting the awards this year for the eleventh time. New categories in this year are Security, Infrastructure and Domain Name Registrar. A jury of experts from the industry, academia and journalism will decide who, of the three nominees in each category, should be the winner. The Award gala will be held on 30th June 2011.
The eco Internet Awards commemorate companies in the Internet industry, who provide innovative products or services.
Further Information and registration
Categories Data Center / Infrastructure »Category Data Center
In the category “Data Center” the prize is given to the Data Center Operator with the best customer supply for:
- Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
- Availability, Concepts of Redundancies, SLA’s
- Security Concept and Certifications
- Service Offer
Category Infrastructure
In the category “Infrastructure” the prize is given to the supplier or Data Center planer who offers the most innovative solution or concept for a data center operator:
- Power Supply, Emergency Power Supply
- Cooling
- Network, Routing, Cabling
- Surveillance, Monitoring, Access Control
- Total Planning, Design of Building
27 March 2011
Interview: Marion Howard Healy, BroadGroup talking about eco’s new Datacenter Expert Group
Frankfurt, 08.02.2011 – Marion Howard Healy, Associate Consultant BroadGroup talking with Ruth Plater about eco’s new Datacenter Expert Group.
15 February 2011
Interview: Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Head of eco’s working group datacenter
Interview in English
Interview in German
Frankfurt, 08.02.2011 – Dr. Béla Waldhauser, head of eco’s working group Datacenter explained in an Interview with Ruth Plater, eco e.V., the objectives of the new Datacenter Expert Group.
The Expert Group summarised the existing working group Datacenter and the new groups IT Processes as well as Sustainable IT-Management. So eco can offer a wider range of topics to their members.
14 February 2011
Interview: Ken McNally, DatacenterDynamics talking about eco’s new Datacenter Expert Group
Frankfurt, 08.02.2011 – Ken McNally, Senior Event Manager DatacenterDynamics talking with Ruth Plater about eco’s new Datacenter Expert Group.
14 February 2011
01.-05.03. CeBIT / Webciety
Webciety – Internet solutions is the central platform focusing on business-oriented web applications and Internet-based business models. This display category is especially dedicated to Internet enterprises. The unique atmosphere of the “walk-in Internet area” offers various kinds of exposures.
Meet your Datacenter Star Audit Contacts at CeBIT 2011 – Webciety Hall 6, Stand J26
2 February 2011
08.02. Kick-Off Meeting Datacenter Expert Group
On 8 February, the kick-off meeting of the new eco Data Center Expert Group will take place. Part of the initiative are two new working groups, which will be: “Sustainable IT Management”, which will concentrate on issues such as energy efficiency and sustainability in the care of IT; and the working group “IT processes,” which will focus on process and standardisation issues. Also during the kick off meeting a third, and former working group eco Datacenter, will start its new renamed as the working group Datacenter Infrastructure.
Cologne, 2.2.2011 – eco podcast about the start of the new Datacenter Expert Group at 8. Feb. 2011 in Frankfurt (german).
Data centers have become an integral part of today’s IT infrastructure and lay the ground, based on large parts of the Internet economy. For several years, our data center working group within the eco association has been incredibly important in this arena. Great attention is especially place on the working group created by the Datacenter Star Audit for certification of data centers, whereby it objectively assesses services and infrastructure, and creates market transparency. But for providers of data centers, of course, not only are technical innovations interesting, but also economic perspectives, process organisation, purchasing and sales of Internet services play an important role. eco has therefore decided to restructure this topic: On 8 February, the kick-off meeting of the newly launched Data Centre Expert Group with be held. In the framework of our working groups, eco calls two new ones into being: “Sustainable IT Management and IT processes.”
AGENDA »Working Group Data Center Infrastructure
The Working Group Data Center will be renamed in the future to ‘Working Group Data Center Infrastructure’. It focuses on the development of best-practice approaches for different types of data centers (e.g. co-location provider, web and internal data centers). The emphasis remains on an open, confidential exchange of information between the data center operators, and creating benchmarks for the industry.
The line of leadership for this working group has continued with Dr. Béla Waldhauser, managing director of Global Switch FM GmbH.
Working Group Sustainable IT Management
The management of WG Sustainable IT Management will be with Marc Schaefer of the Technical University of Berlin. In 2008/2009 he was one of three academic staff from the Technical University of Berlin, who led the study of “energy efficiency in data centers“. This resulted in contact with the eco and the idea of the concept along with the art ICT Management (TU Berlin) and the opportunity for eco members to expand. Schaefer would like to discuss in the WG not only the technical perspective of the energy efficiency activities, but upstream and downstream areas, so the ISP can sustainably align their entire value chain. Thus, the WG is not only interesting for data center operators!
The aim of the Working Group Sustainable IT management is the integration of technical and economic efficiency potential for a holistic approach to implementation and controlling of sustainability in IT organisations. The areas of procurement, production (data center operation) and sales will be brought together at the level of the processes (technical and commercial, general planning) and systems (actual service provision). The Working Group “Sustainable IT Management” forms the denominator for the other two working groups.
Schaefer has some concrete ideas he would like to hold a vote on in the first session with the participants. It is important too learn and to see where the biggest problems are. “For us as a university, the collaboration between science and the association is exciting because we can align the research directly with the people, which we should take advantage of to achieve a better understanding” he says.
Working Group IT processes
The working group “IT processes” will be led by Dr. Jörg Kümmerlen, Managing Director of secopan UG, focusing on process and standardisation issues. The aim is to develop best practice guides for medium-sized data center providers, with which they can improve their quality management. For a market presence in many industries, such as the auto industry, it is necessary that the suppliers have a certain certification in quality management features. Within the compliance and IT services customers’ demands, there is more need for control and security over personal data. “It is time that mid-sized data center providers followed suit“, explains Dr. Jörg Kümmerlen and stressed: “Only if they improve on quality management in the provision of ITS services, can they themselves, in blooming markets such as Cloud Computing and SaaS, take on the large service providers such as Amazon and Microsoft“.
The aim of the Working Group IT processes is to provide an efficient quality management system for the participants to master the basics. By working together we will be able to create templates for a wide range of issues and topics related to processes and quality management, for the medium-sized companies to set their own quality management systems efficiently and pragmatically.
Kümmerlen dealt for years with the required standards and certifications. These standards were not very complex, but it was in some cases difficult to apply them without much prior knowledge on their own processes. There are similar working procedures for the provision of services by the individual participants of the WGs in many cases, the WG should develop a common and cost-effective framework for all participants.
| 12:00 | Registration & Networking |
| 12:45 | Welcome – Presentation eco Data Center Expert Group Dipl.-Ing. Roland Broch eco eV |
| 13:00 | Data Center 3.0 – Does the data center had its day? Dr. Béla Waldhauser Head WG Data Center Infrastructure |
| 13:45 | Inaugural meeting – WG “IT processes,” Dr. Jörg Kümmerlen Head AK IT processes |
| 14:00 | Keynote Speech: Overview – Best Practices – ITIL / ISO 20000 / CMMI Dipl.-Math. Gerhard Fessler SEI certified CMMI Lead Appraiser and Instructor |
| 14:45 | Coffee Break & Networking |
| 15:15 | Inaugural meeting – WG “Sustainable IT Management Dipl.-Ing. Marc Schaefer Head WG Sustainable IT Management |
| 15:30 | Keynote Speech: Sustainable IT management in IT organisations Fabian Löser Research Associate at the Department of ICT management at the TU Berlin |
| 16:15 | Discussion topic and develop a roadmap in 2011 Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Dr. Jörg Kümmerlen, Marc Schaefer |
| 17:30 | End of event / get together |
Location:
Lindleystraße 14
60314 Frankfurt am Main
goo.gl/maps/32IV
Date:
08.02.2011
12:00 Midday
1 February 2011
22.-24.03. WorldHostingDays 2011
The WorldHostingDays, or known nowadays as WHD, is the biggest hosting event in the world and is held once a year in Germany.
WHD is the evolved form of WebhostingDay, which has been hosted very successfully six times. The adaptation of the concept resulted from WebhostingDays starting to covered a much wider range than merely web hosting.
It has not just been companies whose direct focus is on hosting (e.g. Data center operators and carriers ) that have been partners and sponsors in recent years, but many companies in complementary sectors as well.
Meet your Datacenter Star Audit-Contacts
at the accompanying Hosting.fair
Further information is available at: www.worldhostingdays.com
24 January 2011
17.03. Workshop: Physical and environmental security in the data center
6th Day of IT security at Paderborn University – An event for the Paderborn Forum “industry meets computer science”, with support from InnoZent OWL and the regional group of OWL (Ostwestfalen-Lippe), of the Society for Computer Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.).
In the workshop “Physical and environmental security in the data center”, issues to do with physical security such as security in the server room, availability and redundancy of infrastructure and the building being up to the job, are concentrated on. They are aligned with the objectives and requirements from the perspective of integrated management systems (quality, information security, processes).
Presenter:
Dipl.-Ing. Alfons Marx, Dipl.-Ing. Roland Broch
eco – Association of German Internet Industry e.V.
For more information and to registration
19 January 2011
