Sunday | 20 July, 2008

Strategic Technologies for 2006 & Beyond
Speaker: Martin Reynolds, Vice President and Gartner Fellow

Martin Reynolds is a Vice-President and Research Fellow at Gartner, based in California. This breakfast is an extremely exciting opportunity to hear this internationally renowned analyst who follows the broad areas of hardware technologies, and examines how they will develop and impact IT.

His presentation looks at the trends that will shake, break and make businesses in 2006, and beyond. Knowledge gained from these key trends and predictions can be leveraged to turn potentially disruptive technologies into new business opportunities. Discover which technologies are going to play a key role in defining the successful businesses globally in the coming five years.

Future Proofing Technology for Ultimate Business Value

David Blumanis, APC, Data Centre Infrastructure Advisor, Asia Pacific

An authority in data centre infrastructure, David Blumanis has managed some of the largest IT operations in Australia during his 25 years in the IT industry. Blumanis will take Gartner's discussion of top strategic technologies a step further, drilling down on leading edge technologies for the data centre environment.

Blumanis will reveal how combining adaptable, intelligent technologies, you can in fact "future proof" your data centre aiding your business to achieve its bottom line. See issues before they have a major impact on your business and mitigate business risk. Increase and maintain network availability, watch geography issues disappear, adapt to change as the business grows or moves locations, all the while reducing the total cost of ownership.

The future Data Centre

Chris Schroor, Associate Director, Springfield Land Corporation

Be one of the first to witness the most advanced implementation of data centre infrastructure to date. Chris Schroor will disclose details on the new Internet Data Centre (IDC) model to be realised in Springfield, a fully master planned city including residential, infrastructure and office accommodation.

13 years ago Springfield was just a green field site to the west of Brisbane. It is now an "edge city" in the making, designed to accommodate 60,000 people by 2020. Chris will demonstrate how the co-location data centre hosting facility built into the Springfield plans may very well be the way of the future.