About 70% of data center outages are caused by human error. With continued demand for data across all business functions, today’s IT and data center infrastructure stakeholders are under continuous pressure to deliver value while maintaining cost and efficiency, enterprises need a framework to drive best practices for the effective management and operations of a data center. This event will discuss the benefits of keeping your data center at par with established international standards and also looks into the business value these data center standards contribute to a company’s digital transformation.

With the theme – "The DC of Tomorrow: Service-oriented, software-defined and data-centric” this forum will trace the importance of various aspects of Next generation data centers and Virtual Cloud based Data Center. Next-gen data center networks focus more on software-centric controls (SDN). Key success factors for building next-gen data center networks include modularization and standardization of the fabric, ensuring support for virtualization and containers, adding programmability and automation as well as ensuring visibility to facilitate troubleshooting.

As use of cloud and Internet technology grows with more people, devices and applications coming online, the data centers that host and power the key applications consumers, businesses, and governments alike have come to depend on must continue to evolve. Some key business drivers are propelling enterprises and communication service providers to evolve their data centers. These include increased competitiveness driving agility, cost-savings, differentiation in IT, increased consumption of video and media-rich content, dominance of cloud and mobile applications and importance of data – big data, IoT and analytics.

• - Green Data Centers
  - Cooling
  - Data Centre Design and Build
  - Disaster recovery planning & business continuity
  - Data Protection & Security
  - Physical Site Security
  - Operating Systems
  - Outsourcing
  - Power & Power Management
  - Servers & Storage
  - IT Infrastructure
  - Data Backup & Recovery
  - Virtualisation
  - Big Data
  - Cabling
  - Cloud Computing
  - Connectivity & Telecoms

Speakers
Smt. Neeta Verma Director General National Informatics Centre Ministry of Electronics & IT	Shri Anil Kumar Jain, ITS Chief General Manager Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited	Shri Golok Kumar Simli Chief Technology Officer, Passport Seva Project Ministry of External Affairs Govt. of India	Col. Pankaj Dikshit Sr. Vice President (IT Infrastructure) Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)
Dr. Satyamoorti Sivasubramanian Global Chief of Security, India & SA Bharti Airtel Limited	Ms. Puneet Kaur Kohli Group Executive Vice President IT & CTO Bajaj Capital Limited	Mr. Harnath Babu Chief Information Officer KPMG India	Mr. Vipul Anand Chief Information Officer Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.
Mr. Pawas Agrawal General Manager & CISO Aircel Limited	Mr. Manish Anand Head – IT Aegon Life Insurance	Mr. Himanshu Saluja Product Marketing Manager Data Center Group, Asia Pacific - Japan Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd	Mr. Joel Sequeira Technical Specialist SUSE India
Mr. Niranjan Shivprasad Global Product Manager for the Data Center Group Western Digital	Ms. Meetali Sharma Corporate Risk, Compliance & Security Leader SDG Software India Pvt. Ltd.	Col. Inderjeet Singh Director - Strategic Accounts Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd.	Mr. Atiq Khan Deputy Manager, Corporate Strategy & BD Engineers India Limited