DCD>Bangalore 2020
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9 July 2020, Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield
Energy Smart Infrastructure | Building at scale & speed | Planning for Hybrid IT
Hall 1
Hall 2
| 5G, Edge & Interconnect |
Hall 3
08:00
Registration open
09:00
Welcome keynote and Lamp Lighting Ceremony
09:10
Special Address by Chief Guest
09:20
Plenary Keynote: Mapping the journey of a global hyperscale giant towards meeting the growing demand for data center capacity
More and more we will see the lessons learned from the hyperscale data center giants find their way into legacy enterprise data centers as
internet-facing digital workloads are added. But what are these lessons, and how can data center operators prepare their critical environment to
accommodate at least some level of hyperscale and network edge-style workloads?
This session will examine new technologies impacting data center, strategies for efficient capacity planning and resource utilization all of which
would apply to standard production workload management in a virtualized environment, and may help prepare Indian enterprises for managing
some varying level of webscale workloads.
09:50
Plenary Panel: Futureproofing digital infrastructure - overcoming the Indian data center and cloud industry’s capacity challenges
The proliferation of data due to increased usage of smartphones, social media, adoption of cloud, data localization is driving a huge demand for
data centers in India which the supply side is unable to keep pace with. How will this huge demand gap be addressed?
This panel will discuss the major infrastructure challenges faced by data center developers and advantages that Bangalore can provide in terms
of land, power capacities? How can data center operators from enterprise and colocation companies ensure rightsizing for current and future
capacity needs. What can we learn from global hyperscale operators?
*This is a draft agenda and is subject to changes
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10:30
Coffee Break | Expo | Innovation Stage Presentations | Speed Networking | VIP Brunch Briefings
11:15
How can we accelerate digital
transformation with edge computing?
Edge computing is a driving force that will
fuel next decade of technology innovation
and customer experience. Increased
demand for content and IoT systems,
along with new technologies such as 5G,
will require strategic IT assets be placed
closer to the end consumer.
In this session we will look at the latency
bottlenecks in existing systems and how
applications in a 5G world will push
compute/storage closer to wireless signal
sources. We’ll also talk through site
deployments that would address these
latency shortcomings and how an
interdisciplinary approach to infrastructure
will be needed to deliver the performance
for this next stage of the digital revolution
11:45
The intelligent, efficient and flexible
data center - preparing your data
center’s power and cooling efficiency
for the IoT age.
As worldwide data usage continues to
grow, requiring more infrastructure and
power to support it, it is vital that
innovation is leveraged to help balance
energy demand and supply.
This session discusses the readiness of
your data center’s critical environment to
efficiently support growth in the age of
digital commerce, cloud, and big data?
*This is a draft agenda and is subject to changes
Hyperscale data center operator’s strategy
of building and managing a cost and
energy efficient data center
Simplify, consolidate, modernize: How can
you modernize your data center using
hyperconverged infrastructure
It has become imperative for hyperscale data
center operators to keep a check on data
center’s energy consumption. Balancing the
need to reduce cost and improve operational
and energy efficiency.
How hyperscale data center operators are
tackling energy concerns? What technologies
do they deploy? Learn how economies of
scale can be leveraged to provide highly
scalable state - of - the - art data center
infrastructure
How to better manage your cloud
infrastructure?
Technical Session by Uptime Institute
On-premise or off, you have powerful tools
available to maximize the value of your
infrastructure and you demand more visibility
and operational control. Fortunately, data
center management tools keep a vigil on
memory contestation, power, thermal
consumption, server health, and utilization,
allowing better control no matter your cloud’s
shape.
In this session, learn about software tools that
enable real-time monitoring and precise
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management to lower operational costs and
optimize infrastructure for today even as you’re
forecasting for tomorrow
12:15
Challenge Panel: How is the role of the
CIO changing in the face of digital
transformation
Challenge Panel: What are the barriers to
building at scale and speed and how can
the industry overcome them?
The modern day CIO continues to span
the chasm between IT and facilities.
Today, their responsibilities are not just
limited to growth and scaling up of
business. In this era of digital
transformation, CIOs are expected to
continuously innovate and create a data
driven culture within the organization.
While CIOs versed in infrastructure and
applications management will still be
needed, it will now be more important than
ever for them to re-invent their roles and
implement effective ways to harness
emerging technologies like cloud, hybrid
IT to drive strategic enterprise goals.
Not a week goes by without a new mega-data
center build being announced somewhere in
the world, often with power consumption cited
in the hundreds of MWs and technical areas
the size of many premier league football
grounds.
This expert panel brings together the data
center operator, the general contractor, the
design engineer and the technology vendor to
share their insights on the latest construction
techniques, data center design aspects, the
supply chain challenges, framework
agreements and alliances that are being
forged to build at scale in the region.
Challenge Panel: Addressing rising cyber
security threats in a hybrid environment
As the country rides on the wave of digital
transformation, enterprises have been in the
forefront of incorporating new age technologies
like IoT, hybrid cloud, AI, ML. Much like the
advantages these technologies bring with them,
they also present new security risks.
This panel will look into the advanced security
measures that counter sophisticated cyber
attacks. How can enterprises deploy smart
applications for failure predictions?
In this session, we ask our panelists how
these pressures are changing their roles in
the face of increased infrastructure
complexities and digital transformation
Moderator + 3 ppl max.(including 1 seat for sponsor)
13:00
Lunch | Expo | Networking | Innovation Stage Presentations | VIP Lunch Briefings
14:00
Major curated panel: How should the
data center industry now respond to
the global climate emergency?
*This is a draft agenda and is subject to changes
Major Curated Panel: Hybrid cloud
adoption and migration challenges successful and secure transitions from onprem to cloud
Hosted Roundtables
1. When are modular solutions best
deployed to increase the capacity of
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Digital transformation, newer technologies,
greater cloud adoption are leading to an
increase in demand for data storage,
network connectivity and processing
capacity. Along with these factors, one
more crucial phenomenon that looms over
the data center industry today is climate
change.
This panel will discuss sustainable energy
practices that data center operators can
implement to reduce their carbon footprint.
Can renewable energy sources be used to
power data centers? Do we have the
technology required to store power from
these sources? How is the data center
industry going to sustain growth rates that
support exponential data usage in the face
of a global climate emergency?
Experts will also look into the impact that
rising temperatures have on data center
operations and its lifecycle
15:00
How to solve capacity challenges
through modular UPS?
With the increasing digitalization of
industry, first generation power
infrastructure designs are falling short of
current needs and are not enough to meet
future demands as they evolve. With
changing data center deployment and
capacity models, a flexible and truly
modular approach to power is now more
important than ever.
This session will examine how today
*This is a draft agenda and is subject to changes
For many enterprises, hybrid IT and hybrid
cloud infrastructures are their transitional data
center journey, bridging the old with the new.
When moving to a hybrid infrastructure model,
how do you make sure that you are taking
fullest advantage of new technologies that can
massively improve performance?
This panel will discuss the transformation
capabilities you should expect from your hybrid
infrastructure. How to evaluate workload
placement decisions that would deliver the
best value to your business? Experts will also
share use cases and best practices to ensure
successful transitions from on - prem to cloud
Developing right mix data center strategies
with emerging technologies of hybrid it,
software-defined infrastructure, and
modular data center.
existing data centers?
2. How is cloud redefining your data center
strategy?
3. How can data center costs be managed
in the age of IoT and AI?
4. How is edge changing the way data
centers are built?
5. What are the next-gen power and cooling
trends for data centers
6. How can unicorn companies leverage
scalability benefits from multi - cloud
platform?
7. How can AI, ML be used for failure
predictions and overcome security
challenges?
8. How can AI and IoT be used to improve
power and cooling systems for high
density computing/data center
9. How can organizations bridge the
datacenter skills gap?
iMasons Chapter Meeting
Data centers are increasingly dynamicallyconverged facilities. They must react to
increasingly complex challenges, such as time
to market competition, capital and operating
expense demands and new cloud-type and
on-demand application requirements that
directly strain the facility infrastructure. Short
and long term data center strategy must multisource data center capabilities. There are
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15:30
infrastructures that support critical
applications need to be flexible, scalable
and designed for rapid deployment or
upgrades - all whilst maintaining system
availability. Learn, how the flexibility of
modular architecture can enable an
organisations to rapidly adapt to ever
changing requirements and improve
resilience
several new sourcing options and technologies
available that make traditional data center
infrastructure obsolete.
The physical network evolving to
support hyperconverged
infrastructures
Addressing colocation and cloud
challenges with a modular approach in the
age of distributed computing
Hyperconverged infrastructures are fast
becoming an attractive option for
enterprise data center work-loads. Early
suppliers of these solutions traced the
concept of these architectures to lessons
learned from hyper-scale platforms. These
fault tolerant and manageable 'softwaredefined' solutions promise to blend the
fault tolerance and scalability of the HS
architectures to support native enterprise
applications. The physical network
topologies are adapting to support these
new architectures.
Being able to integrate systems off-site has
tremendous advantages in terms of speed and
efficiency and this principle is being extended
to data centers of all sizes. The need for
speed is proactively being addressed by
innovations in modular data centers, which are
increasingly gaining momentum against the
backdrop of edge computing. The modular
approach promises to cut facility development
times significantly.
This session will focus on the evolving
fabric network architectures and the
physical layer networks that support them.
*This is a draft agenda and is subject to changes
This session will explore the concept of a
hybrid IT environment, software defined data
centers (SDDC), use of modular computing
resources as critical elements necessary to
develop a truly flexible data center strategy
that can react to the changing landscape. The
process of developing a flexible strategy and
common failures will also be discussed.
This session will discuss the risks and benefits
associated with the design, build and
deployment of modular, prefabricated data
centers? Find out how modularity addresses
the need for speed and how you can add
capacity incrementally whilst maintaining
capital efficiency
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16:00
Coffee Break
16:30
Artificial Intelligence for the data centers
What is driving the growth of data centers
- How do you make data centers smarter? and bandwidth services in India? - an OTT
perspective
The data center landscape is undergoing
radical changes. To compete in this rapidly
evolving digital economy, organizations are
moving workloads to the cloud, tapping into
ecosystems of partners and leveraging
artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver faster and
better digital experiences. These trends are
reshaping the underlying infrastructure. No
longer centralized, data centers are rapidly
becoming distributed and intelligent to
manage these increasingly complex
workloads.
How do you incorporate automation and AI
into your operations for optimal efficiency
and transparency in real-time?
17:00
Future Predictions Panel: What will your data center look like 5 yrs from now?
With the explosion of smart devices and accumulation of incredible amounts of data due to IoT and 5G, IT trends for the next decade will drive
data center industry expansion and innovation. Understand how to prepare for the new technologies ahead in the near future, as well as
preliminary studies of evolving ideas and what you should expect for your next data center
17:45
Closing Remarks and Contest Winner Announcements
18:45
Best In India Award Ceremony
*This is a draft agenda and is subject to changes
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