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“Arguments for going to the cloud cite the huge resources and expertise of the big players; but vendors are now making the capabilities of the web giants available to all, allowing competition on a level playing field.”
Paul Hearns, Editor, TechPro magazine |
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THE WEB GIANTS can design their own servers, build architectures that rival space agencies and serve billions of users daily. They get complaints if services run slowly — let alone fail.
But these web giants have near-endless resources, with armies of engineers to deliver these service levels. How can your organisation hope to develop a data centre that can rival such services? Delegates at this TechFire briefing on 29 April heard from Owen Wynne, Contracts/Engineering Manager at eircom, discussing his experience developing eircom's business-critical infrastructure including data centres. His role includes operational and capital development activities; Paul Hearns chaired a Q & A session from delegates following his interview. Experts from Schneider Electric and E-TEC international presented the latest thinking on data centre design, covering techniques such as high-density provisioning, modular design and hot aisle containment. They outlined how indigenous organisations can achieve excellence in design, implementation and operation of data centres, irrespective of outright scale, to ensure that whatever is kept 'on-premise' performs as if it were hosted by a web giant. 
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Speakers and panel discussion
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