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DATA CENTRE OPERATIONS: MEETING NEW CHALLENGES Tuesday 18 May 2004; Regent Hall London
08.30 Light breakfast and coffee 09.00 Introduction A welcome from Breakfast Network organiser Mark Lillycrop 09.10 Job Scheduling in the 21st Century Tony Sudworth, European Marketing Manager, Cybermation UK Today's typical data centre is constrained by a range of inflexible scheduling solutions, restricted by platform and function. As we move further into the 21st century, we need to put in place operations management practices based on management by business application, automated SLA management, self-optimizing and self-healing processes, and future-proofed technology. Cybermation's Tony Sudworth explains the vision. 09.55 Console consolidation and remote data centre management, David Hunt, CEO, Really Remote Ltd Many large organizations are faced with the problem of managing operating systems in multiple data centres or sharing operations responsibility among various distributed consoles. This presentation looks at the issues involved in managing remote data centres more efficiently, as well as allowing multiple operations staff to share consoles both locally and across geographically dispersed computer centres. Presented by David Hunt of Really Remote and I/O Concepts, who has been a specialist in remote operation and technical support of multi-server environments for many years, the session includes case studies addressing applications in the finance, engineering and manufacturing industries. 10.40 Coffee 10.55 Service delivery strategies, Brian Whittaker, UK Field Director, BMC Brian Whittaker talks about managing service delivery from the perspective of the large data centre, looking at the latest implications of initiatives such as ITIL, and what needs to be done to improve service delivery/continuity and support across the board. 11.40 Infrastructure simplification with zSeries, Doug Neilson, Systems Consultant, IBM Enterprise Systems Group There are too many boxes out there and they're hard and expensive to manage! This session, by IBM Systems Consultant Doug Neilson, looks at IBM's recently developed techniques for reintegrating your operations, retaining the multi-tier logical view but implementing a much simpler physical infrastructure. Guess which platform forms the core of this development?'. 12.25 End
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