“In my opinion this event is the pre-eminent infrastructure and operations conference across the whole of Europe if not the world - regularly attracting the best speakers and infrastructure professionals in the industry”
Mike Manos, AOL

“Great event if you’re interested in the data center business.
The Place To Be”
Stephane Jacquet, DCC Consulting Ltd

“A meeting point and a view of the results
of individual research speakers”
Christophe Martel, CERN

“The right place for the right contacts”
Herve Barbat, Starnox

“Super as always...constantly evolving”
Jonathan Heap, IXConsulting

“Excellent event very well put together”
Michalis Grigoratos, Hewlett Packard

“Time well spent at an excellent event”
Chris Smith, on365

“My overall impression is really good, I had the feeling that this is really THE conference bringing together in the same place all the technologies and companies in the world of the green data centers”
Massimo Bertoncini, Engineering Ingeneria Informatica

“Excellent!”
Teisuke Michimoto, NTT

“A rather high level presence and a very good networking event”
Jahrl Stefan Norberg, Abaxum

“Diverse information, good overall view of
developments in DC industry”
Jasper Kerkwijk, Hitec Power Protection

“Very well organized, great opportunity to network and also meet with potential customers”
Vincent Bevan, Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH

“Well worth the time and money. Great turnout by relevant heads of business focused on cloud computing and data centers. Another well executed event by the BroadGroup”
Susan Vandament, XKL LLC

“Best so far...”
Kjetil Ertnaes, DLE Consulting

“A great opportunity to be in touch with the
leaders of the datacentres world.”
Raffaele Giordanelli, eco4cloud

“Great experience”
Jan Tomko, Datahouse a.s.

“An excellent representation of the industry in a very
short space of time”
Athesan Guna, GI Partners UK Limited

“Good event bringing Europe together”
Derek Webster, Yahoo!

“A very well received event. Most people I spoke to or overheard were making very positive comments about the 'feel' of the event, very professional. People attending were happy to interact and open up in networking versus other events where people are either more guarded or
simply aren't the right people”
Chris Chapman, Anixter

Europe's Global IT Infrastructure Forum

Registration closes
May 29, 2013

Register Today

Location

Nice, Côte d'Azur, France

When

29-30 May 2013

Venue

Palais des Congrès Acropolis

Speakers Include

  • Jon Karling Jon Karling
    Chairman
    Entrepreneur and CEO of Swedish Bahnhof AB More Info
  • Michael O'Toole Michael O'Toole
    Managing Director
    Global head of Datacentres
    Morgan Stanley More Info
  • David Peto David Peto
    Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
    Aframe More Info
  • Simone Brunozzi Simone Brunozzi
    Senior Technology Evangelist
    Amazon Web Services More Info
  • Bob Shatten Bob Shatten
    President
    TeraCool LLC More Info
  • Kfir L Godrich Kfir L Godrich
    Managing Partner
    Godrich Consulting LLC More Info
  • Peter Gross Peter Gross
    Vice President
    Mission Critical Systems
    Bloom Energy More Info
  • Peter Jones Peter Jones
    Programme Manager
    Global Infrastructure
    Google More Info

Welcome to Europe's global meeting place and premier forum for more than 1000+ users, operators and practitioners of IT infrastructure from more than 35 countries.

BroadGroup research forecasts that strong vertical market demand will drive growth in outsourcing to third party datacentres in Europe, and will equate to almost 30% of users by the beginning of 2016. But this linear perspective will largely disappear as the computing environment changes. IT departments emerge as cloud brokers, hosting applications across a range of datacentres and distributed architectures. Businesses will be offered a flexible menu of options, automated and on demand. For datacentres and users, this dénouement brings a completely new set of challenges and opportunities

New Announcements

George Slessman

George Slessman, CEO & Product Architect, IO

To provide address at Nice Conference: “End of Life” – Data Center 1.0
Day 2 / Main Conference Theatre 0945h

Latest News

New Speakers announced include

Eric Schwartz

Eric Schwartz

President, EMEA, Equinix

Andrew Jay

Andrew Jay

Senior Director, CB Richard Ellis

Brice Fourney

Brice Fourney

Engineering Department Deputy Director, Bouygues Energies & Services

HP Moonshot System

HEWLETT PACKARD TO PROVIDE EUROPE’S FIRST
PREVIEW OF HP MOONSHOT AT DATACENTRES 2013

Hewlett Packard, the world’s largest technology company, will provide the first regional preview of its newly launched HP Moonshot solution at Datacentres Europe 2013

READ THE INTERVIEW WITH IVAN JASCUR

EMEA Strategy Leader, Critical Facilities Services at Hewlett-Packard.

Michael Tobin

Fireside chat with Michael Tobin

First ever public European interview with the CEO of Europe’s largest datacentre operator.

Madam Zhou Chaonan

Big build plans in China

Special presentation by Madam Zhou Chaonan Chairman, Range International Information Group.

Paul Francois Cattier

Defining your energy strategy

Read the interview with Paul Francois Cattier, Global Vice President, Datacenter at Schneider Electric...

Annual Code of Conduct Awards

Annual Code of Conduct Awards

Presented by Dr Paulo Bertoldi - Principal Administrator, European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability.

Data Centres

Thinking Differently About Data Centres

Cloud and the utilization of "Big Data" continues to accelerate, the industry is experiencing a time of disruptive innovation. See >> Thought Leaders Panel 1630h/Day 1/Main Theatre

Data Centres

Big Focus on Security in the data centre

Workshop by security expert Ronald van Kleunen
See >> 1400h/Day1/Demo Theatre
Cybersecurity - Bob Butler, Vice President, Government Strategies, IO
See >> 1250h/Day1/Cloud Theatre
Pan European Cyberthreats - Thorsten Kraft, Anti-Botnet Advisory Centre, Germany
See >> 1630h/Day1/Demo Theatre

Managing Big Data via Digital Infrastructure

Datacentre procurement will shift away from real estate and facilities management to broader IT, central infrastructure and outsourcing; software spend in Cloud will assume much greater importance; application management becomes next area of commoditization.

CIOS and the future of digital infrastructure

Data will just be too big by then. It's no longer a question of whether a company should deploy to the cloud, but instead how and when.

A World of Content

  • Foremost thought leadership driving new insights into strategy, business operations and best practice
  • Cloud options for reducing risk and opex
  • New research and forecasts on European andworld markets
  • New Case studies including Cooling Innovation
  • Cloud managed services
  • Europe's renewable energy hinterland
  • Software enabled datacentres
  • Awesome Modular developments
  • Designing and managing efficient infrastructure
  • Critical CyberSecurity Threats and Mitigation
  • Finance and investment for digital infrastructure
  • Fibre connectivity and datacentre traffic

Vertical Markets at Datacentres 2013

The new 2013 forum will address Telco, DigitalMedia and Content, Financial Services, Managed Services and Enterprise vertical market segments and their challenges and opportunities in managing, operating and outsourcing digital infrastructure.

Power as new basis for competition

Datacentre Power will become increasinglyimportant as a source of competitive differentiation - perhaps more so than space. For users pressuresto reduce energy costs is pivotal.

More than 35 million petabytes of data will be generated by 2020

New for 2013, CIOs focus on the future of digital infrastructure the changing role that datacentres will play, shifting to cloud, and managing integrated platforms and massive global data.

Venue

Nice Acropolis

Nice Acropolis Convention Center is located in the heart of Nice, a few steps from the Bay of Angels, Nice Acropolis is the home of the most successful events in the world. >>>

Hotels

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  • 100+ International Expert Speakers
  • 5 Masterclasses
  • 70+ Exhibitors
  • 4 Conference theatres
  • Case Studies & Special Workshops
  • Outstanding International Networking

Gain extra networking value through the unique mobile app for the event. Download the App and set up appointments with other attendees in the month before and during the event.

Sponsors

Patron

Schneider Electric

Global Platinum Sponsors

HP Intel

Signature Sponsors

Panduit Socomec Stulz

Communication Sponsor

CommScope

Diamond Sponsor

Bird & Bird

Gold Sponsors

Anixter DigiPlex
DataPlex Virtus Data Centres

Silver Sponsors

ECO Siemens

Annual European Datacentre Code of Conduct Awards

Annual European Datacentre Code of Conduct Awards

Showtime Sponsors

APL MigSolv Cofely
Business Sweden Caterpillar Volta
Bouygues Energies & Services TeliaSonera IO

Industry Sponsors

Verne Global Invest in Iceland Scholze
Future Facilities ABB ebrc
DEF Scottish Development International Conteg
Smacs D2CN Data IV
Automation Choreus Datacenters Racktivity
LinxDatacenter ASTmodular Van Looy Group
Altitude Datacenter Emerson Invest in Finland
Barclays CBRE Starline
Farice Arion banki Landsvirkjun
MedNautilus Invest Lithuania Deloitte

Supported by

The Green Grid

Partner Organizations

EUDCA CESIT Infopole

Official Media Partners

DataCentres Finance and Investment Forum for DataCentres

Industry Partners

CNet Training Colo Research Colo-X
Globeron IDC-G Data Center People

Media Partners

CommsUpdate Hakin9 Balkans
The Data Center Journal The Data Chain BoogarLists
Bvents ECM Plus Teletechwire
Clocate BusinessVibes TechWeekEurope UK
InfoCom Computer Weekly l'Informaticien
Solutions - Logiciels Global Security Magazine Electrical Review
Inside Networks ICT4Executive Data Centre News
Developing Telecoms IT expert magazine LeMagIT
EDI PenTest Magazine ComputerWorldUK
Telecompaper silicon.de

Racktivity, an innovator in next-generation power, energy and environmental management solutions offers the industry's only integrated hardware and software for critical infrastructures.

The DCPM suite, a Service Provider Infrastructure & Data Center Performance Management System, measures, monitors and manages power across distributed data centres and gives customers full visibility and control of their energy consumption while integrating seamlessly with other applications and PDU appliances.

Racktivity's EnergySwitch family of smart Power Distribution Units (PDUs), and sensors equips infrastructures with the most advanced metering, switching and predictive analysis capabilities available on the market today.