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DATA
CENTRE SUMMIT REVIEW
Learn, be
inspired, connect
and deliver…
DATA CENTRE
SUMMIT
2016
SOUTH
By Ray Smyth
That’s what visitors to the first one-day regional Data
Centre Summit at London’s Barbican were offered.
Data centre professionals are not short of options
when building the data centre facilities that their
business requires. But understanding the options,
the choices on offer and finding the time to assess
potential suppliers is a significant challenge in a
pressured, time-poor world.
With this in mind Data Centre Summit South
opened its doors for the first time in London’s
Barbican Exhibition Centre on the 10th of February
2016. This new regional one-day event had been
hotly anticipated, billed as London’s very first oneday data centre conference and exhibition.
Visitors were able to select the seminars of interest
to them and easily move between exhibitors and
either of the seminar tracks. Seminars were well
attended and delegates interacted with presenters
during and after presentations to get into detail.
The seminar sessions were kicked off at 10 am
in Track 1 by Aaron Whitehouse, Chief Commercial
Officer at Vorboss standing in for Tim Creswick,
who delivered a presentation entitled ‘Challenging
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