This two-day event is designed to provide you with a foundation for your future big data strategy. From storage and warehousing to intelligence and discovery, the conference speakers discuss what it takes to successfully plan for and utilize your company’s data.

Some of the top speakers at Structure: Data  include:

• Mike Brown, CTO of comScore
• Cameran Evans, data scientist at Socialcast by VMware
• Currie Boyle, distinguished engineer at IBM
• Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera
• Dr. Bill Simmons, CTO and co-Founder of DataXu
• Mok Oh, chief scientist at PayPal
• George John, CEO and co-founder of Rocket Fuel
• David Gutelius, chief social scientist at Jive Software
• Amarantha Thombre, VP of strategy and analytics at Match.com
• Arnab Gupta, CEO and founder of Opera Solutions

See the Structure: Data 2012 website for registration and additional details.

Venue
Pier Sixty at The Chelsea Piers
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-336-6100

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This event is a forum on the revolutionary challenges the IT community currently faces in data consolidation and optimization. Participants will have the opportunity to participate with an audience of military, government, academic and private sector leaders.

Sessions will include insights, recommendations and best practices on:

• Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative Implementation
• Reducing Energy Usage
• Initiatives for Increasing IT Security
• The Persistent Need for Cyber Security
• Agency Consolidation Efforts to Reduce the Overall Data Enter Footprint
• Promoting the Use of Green IT by Reducing Energy and Real Estate

For more information and registration, visit IDGA Data Center Consolidation website. Early registration ends February 24, 2012. Venue in Washington, D.C. Specifics to be announced.

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This year’s theme is “Achieving Greater Productivity and Environmental Sustainability.” Sustainability, IT and resource efficiency related business decisions are very important across many enterprises. As more companies recognize that resource efficiency directly impacts the company’s bottom line, managers are faced with questions, such as: “In what ways can data center efficiency impact my company?” “What is the business impact as we increase our business’s IT resource efficiency?” “How can we calculate my business’s carbon and water usage?”

These questions and more will be discussed at The Green Grid Forum 2012.

The event is open to non-members, if the registrant signs a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

For more information and registration, visit Green Grid Forum 2012.

Venue

DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose
2050 Gateway Place
San Jose, CA 95110

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Because data centres are an asset class that investors need to seriously consider for their investment portfolio, this event draws an impressive group of professionals from the worlds of finance, real estate and the data centre industry.

IMN’s recent data centre conferences which took place in Los Angeles was well received, with more than 200 senior executives attending including some of the most prominent data centers owners, tenants, investors, capital and service providers. For the IMN recent Chicago event, 300+ data centre owners, real estate investors and tenants signed up.

Who should attend?

• Data Centre Senior Executives
• Corporate Tenants of Data Centres
• Web Hosts
• Real Estate Investors
• Tech/Telecomm Venture Capitalists

Speakers (as of mid-Feb) include:

• Steve O’Donnell, Senior Advisor Ariadne Capital
• Ian F Bitterlin, Chief Technology Officer Ark Continuity
• Anton Self, CEO Bastion Host Ltd.
• Jonathan Bream, CEO Bream Real Estate Group
• Jason Blank, Co-Managing Director BrocktonCapital
• Paul Anderson, Data Centre Director CapGemini
• Byrne Murphy, President & CEO Digiplex
• Tony Lucas, Founder Flexiant Ltd
• Per Werngren, CEO IDC
• Milan Radia, Managing Director-Equity Research Jefferies
• Paul Foskett, Chief Executive & Co- Founder 5NINES
• Guy Marsden, Director Highbridge Properties Plc
• Jules Delahaije, President & Chief Executive Officer Linxtelecom/Linxdatacenter
• Rick Gauthier, General Manager- Engineering Services IT Microsoft Corp.
• Hector Diaz, Director – Data Center Portfolio Management Oracle
• Jonathan Aitken, Managing Director RBC Capital Markets
• Robert Elgaard, CTO Skandinavisk Data Center I/S
• Aidan Paul, Chief Executive Officer Vtesse Networks
• James Dodsworth, Partner White & Case LLP

For further information and registration, see European Data Centres Forum on Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development website.

Venue

One Great George Street
Westminster, London SW1P 3AA
UK
Phone:   44 (0) 20 7665 2323
Website: http://www.onegreatgeorgestreet.com/index.asp

See conference website for suggested hotels.

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The event will include analysis and insight presented on stage by analysts of 451 Research including Tier 1 Research, ChangeWave Research, TheInfoPro and Uptime Institute divisions.  Representatives from across the hosting and cloud value chain – including hosting and infrastructure providers, software and hardware vendors, enterprise decision-makers, practitioners and financiers – will be in attendance.

See the Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit Europe website for additional details.

Venue
Hotel Russell
Russell Square
London, WC1B 5BE UK
+44 (0) 2078 376 470

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The event will include analysis and insight presented on stage by analysts of 451 Research including Tier 1 Research, ChangeWave Research, TheInfoPro and Uptime Institute divisions.  Representatives from across the hosting and cloud value chain – including hosting and infrastructure providers, software and hardware vendors, enterprise decision-makers, practitioners and financiers – will be in attendance.

Guest speakers include David Pogue who writes the tech column for The New York Times every week, and in Scientific American every month.

See the Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit North America website for additional details.

Venue
Aria
3730 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Las Vegas, NV 89158
702-590-7757 or 866-359-7757

Room block rate is $199 + tax. Attendees can call the Hotel Reservation Department at (702) 590-7757 or (866) 359-7757. In order to receive the group rate, callers must identify their affiliation with Hosting Transformation Summit 2012.

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Cloud Connect brings together the entire cloud eco-system to better understand the cloud transformation and promises to be the defining event of the cloud computing industry. TechWeb has successfully produced cloud events intended to define and frame cloud computing discussions for business technology executives, IT professionals and developers since June 2008.

Featured speakers include: Lew Tucker, VP and CTO of Cloud Computing, Cisco; Peter Magnusson, Engineering Director, Google; Lauren Nelson, Researcher, Forrester; and Chris C. Kemp, OpenStack co-founder, and Founder and CEO, Nebula.

The topics covered include:

• Cloud Security
• Risk, Governance, Compliance, and Mitigation
• Big Data Processing and Parallel Computing
• ROI, TCO & Cloud Economics
• The Future of Utility Computing
• Application Architecture & Design

 Venue

Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054

For registration and information, visit Cloud Connect Santa Clara website.

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Some of the featured speakers include:
Ken Baker, Senior Consultant, Critical Facilities Services, Hewlett Packard
Ken Baker is a recognized industry expert on power, cooling and data center infrastructure. He is an evangelist for the latest in energy conservation and efficiency technologies for customers worldwide. He is a frequent keynote speaker at various data center engineering events. Baker joined Compaq in 1982 and was responsible for the formation of a number of organizations, and has held numerous other Engineering positions within HP/Compaq, including program and product management for a variety of hardware and software products. Currently, Baker is focused on the development of “green” IT concepts and energy management technologies that drive hyper-efficiency in today’s IT environments.

Christian Belady, General Manager, Data Center Research Global Foundation Services, Microsoft
Christian Belady is the general manager for Data Center Research in Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services (GFS) where he is responsible for driving research and advanced development of technologies for broad scale adoption in Microsoft’s data centers. GFS supports over 200 Microsoft online services for consumers and businesses worldwide. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Hardware Architecture in the Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research where he led a team that explored hardware opportunities related to the future of client plus cloud computing. He started his career at Microsoft in 2007 as Microsoft’s Principal Infrastructure Architect for Global Foundation Services to improve both efficiency and cost in their online services infrastructure. His responsibilities have included driving initiatives for sustainability in the data center and infrastructure space, and he was one of the key architects for the company’s next generation modular data centers.

Aaron Davis, Chief Marketing Officer, Schneider Electric
Aaron Davis holds the position of Chief Marketing Officer at Schneider Electric. He joined APC in 1989 as Director of Marketing Communications, which became part of IT Business of Schneider Electric in 2007. Davis has held various senior level marketing and sales roles including Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and President, North America for APC. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and formed the Critical Power & Cooling Services (CPCS) Business Unit, which includes the APC and MGE UPS Systems brands. Until February 2007, Davis served as Vice President, Communications and Chief Marketing Officer at APC.

Jack Pouchet, Director Energy Initiatives, Emerson Network Power and Board Director, Green Grid
Jack Pouchet, BA, MBA Business Administration, Director Energy Initiatives for Emerson Network Power / Liebert is based in Southern California and works closely with major OEMs in the server market, large data center users, and leading mission critical engineering firms to help define, architect, and create opportunities for advanced power and cooling technologies that improve day-to-day operational efficiencies. He brings over twenty years of related OEM power supply, power generation, distribution, and power product sales and marketing experience to Emerson Network Power giving him a unique end-to-end perspective of the entire AC and DC power path.

Venue
Palais des Congrès Acropolis
Esplanade Kennedy
BP4083
06302 Nice Cedex 4
France
For travel information and hotel recommendations, visit the venue page.

For further information and registration, visit Data Centres 2012 website.

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Data center owners, data center tenants, data center investors and capital and service providers are invited to attend this conference. The leaders in the field will give their thoughts during popular panel sessions: President/CEO Panel and Private Equity Panel.

Additional topics of discussion are to include:

• What is Your Approach to Evaluating Power Rates & Pricing Structures?
• Data Center Standards/ Managing Compliance Across Multiple Regulations
• Secondary Cities
• Value-Added Services: Build vs. Buy vs. Acquire
• Valuation of a Data Center Property/Company
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Cloud Enablers: What Do You Need to Succeed in the Business of Cloud
• Switching Data Center Providers

Venue information is not yet available. For further details and registration, please visit IMN Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development for Data Centers website.

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Two events are available. Which one should you attend?

Everyone: If you are an OpenStack user, provider, researcher, or enthusiast, you’ll want to attend the OpenStack Conference held April 19-20. This is the main event and it includes keynotes, panel sessions, and vendor exhibitors.

Developers: If you are an active developer in the OpenStack community, you’ll also want to attend the Design Summit happening right before the conference (April 16-18). The Design Summit is kept intentionally small to foster productive working sessions as the community discusses and plans for development on the next release of OpenStack.

Registration has not yet opened. More details on Openstack.org.

Venue
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero Center,
San Francisco, California, USA 94111
Tel: +1 415 788 1234
Fax: +1 415 398 2567

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