Leading west coast data center industry event to explore opportunities, best practices, and why more companies are looking to this region for data needs
Kicking off the very busy fall events season for DatacenterDynamics is its highly coveted event, DatacenterDynamics Converged (DCD) Seattle. DCD Converged Seattle is the leading data center industry event in the Pacific Northwest, and takes place on Sept. 12, 2013 at the Hilton Bellevue in Seattle.
The Pacific Northwest region is experiencing a new wave of growth, and the DCD Converged event will explore why the City of Seattle is a global data center powerhouse, and its coinciding challenges. Additionally, the event offers attendees the opportunity to learn the latest strategies and best practices from leading end users and cloud-scale data center operators.
“Seattle is growing. The level of innovation here is high. The brainpower is tremendous,” comments Sheila Brennan, Events Director for North America at DatacenterDynamics. “There are many reasons why Seattle plays such a critical role in the Pacific Northwest region, and this year’s Converged Seattle will examine them in depth.”
DatacenterDynamics Converged Seattle presents a comprehensive agenda from end users and industry luminaries such as Christian Belady, General Manager – Data Center Services at Microsoft and Peter Gross, Vice President, Mission Critical Systems at Bloom Energy.
Keynote speakers such as Gregg McKnight, General Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Strategy and Optimization, Global Foundation Services at Microsoft, will accompany lively roundtable discussions and case studies focusing on key topics such as security-centric software defined networking, DCIM, next-generation modular data centers, strategic decision making for insourcing vs. outsourcing data center operations, the latest cloud and virtualization technologies, and much more.
To learn more about DCD Converged Seattle, visit http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/conferences/2013/seattle-2013.
