8th & 9th November 2007

10.00am

Welcome and Introduction

Group Managing Director, Zycko

Nick Moglia is the Group Managing Director of Zycko, overseeing the strategic management of the 11 offices within the Zycko Group.

Nick served as Group Finance Director from July 2001-June 2007, and was appointed Managing Director of Zycko in April 2006. Prior to joining Zycko, Nick held the position of Finance Director at Comstor (1997-2001) and at UB Networks (1994-1997).

8th November 2007

10.10am

The Influence of Technology in Today’s World

Author, future trend analyst & strategic change facilitator

Alan J Whitaker has made presentations attended by more than 120,000 chief executives, directors, managers and specialists on four continents. Alan as a keynote speaker takes people where they have never gone before - into the future!

Alan is an outstanding future trend analyst and strategic change facilitator. He outlines the changes we are currently seeing in industry to understand how it will affect the fabric of society and therefore the structure of organisations.

Everyone who hears this inspirational speaker will learn:

• How to boost an organisation’s future growth and profitability
• How emerging technologies will radically affect almost every aspect of our business, our private lives and our ‘employability’
• The key business drivers for all businesses 2005 – 2010
• How they need to reinvent themselves to be Future Winners

Alan J Whitaker, founder and CEO of Future Winners International, launched his first management consultancy in 1978 after several significant executive positions in the food and transport industries. Under his guidance, clients throughout the world reinvent and re-energise their businesses becoming pioneers and leaders in their industries.

Books by Alan J Whitaker

The Passion Business - a step-by-step guide to creating an organisation dedicated to creating passionate customers (ISBN 0-620-28497-8)

The Future Winners - becoming a Future Winner with clear vision, a Strategic GamePlan, highly profitable customers and a workforce energized and focused on reaching corporate goals
Available summer 2008

The Magic of Nelson Mandela - Lessons From the World's Most Loved and Respected Leader
Available summer 2008

Strategic Thinking in Tactical Times - Integrating strategic development and execution into the fabric of business processes.
Written by Joe Divanna, Francois Austin, Alan J Whitaker, et al (ISBN 1-4039-3406-1)

8th November 2007

11.20am

The ITC Market - Future Trends & Developments

Chief Research Officer, IDC EMEA

Martin Hingley heads up IDC's EMEA IT Markets research team, which summarizes the main economic trends and technology forecasts in the region. Hingley has been with IDC since 1986 and previously led its hardware research as lead analyst and manager. His current work involves acting as a catalyst for the development of thought leadership in EMEA.

He has contributed to a large number of research projects in the server, PC, workstation, distribution, and software areas. He has produced a large number of studies for IDC, as well as presenting its opinions about the development of computer usage and purchasing trends. He regularly contributes as lead analyst in primary research projects conducted by IDC in the U.K. and U.S.

Before joining IDC, Hingley worked at Inteco, a computer market research company, specializing in subjects such as alternative midrange products and PC pricing. He was educated at Abingdon School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from where he has an MA in classics.

9th November 2007

10.10am

Differentiating Your Business

Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics Ltd

As Programme Director, Tony is responsible for developing a new business solution assessment platform for Freeform Dynamics. In his analyst capacity, he covers hosting and services, taking a view of delivery across the major IT solution domains, including both infrastructure and applications.

One of the areas that interests Tony is how developments in infrastructure and communications technologies allow more innovative and effective ways of delivering services to the business. His in depth knowledge of mainframe, server and storage technology puts him in an excellent position to drive through the theory and hype to real world practicalities and considerations. Beyond technology, Tony also considers the role that financial models increasingly play, both in assessing the impact of IT solutions and services within organisations, and on how vendors make their offerings available to customers.

Based in Germany, Tony joined Freeform Dynamics in 2007. He has been an industry analyst since 2000, originally with Bloor Research, where he became Chief Analyst, then later with Sageza, where he was instrumental in developing the firm’s presence in Europe. Before this, he gained extensive experience in the vendor arena working for companies such as Amdahl, but also has a strong IT practitioner background from various technical and management roles at the University of London and large blue chip commercial companies like BP and BT.

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Zycko Open Network Environment (ZONE) - Successful Solutions Selling
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Virtualisation
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The Green Issue - Corporate Impact
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Data Management – structured & unstructured
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Sam Samuel, Independent Industry Consultant

‘Sam’ Samuel is an IT industry veteran with a vast range of experience across many technologies and market segments.

‘Sam’ has served as an advisory board member of SNIA Europe and has the unique accolade of having been honoured with an award by SNIA worldwide, for his contribution to Networked Storage education, following his prime mover role in setting up the SNIA certification program.

‘Sam’ has delivered presentations across most continents in the world and is acknowledged for the thought leadership these presentations bring. In addition to working with Zycko for several years ‘Sam’ also works with some of the major industry players – helping them keep their workforce at the leading edge of storage and networking technology.

8th November 2007

14.30pm

A Question of Managed Services

Managing Director – Migration Solutions

Alex Rabbetts is co-founder and Managing Director of Migration Solutions. The company specialises in the data centre field, bringing together experts and experience from across the broad spectrum of skills that are required in the design, project management of the build, and in the operation of these facilities.

Well known in the industry, Alex has over 20 years of experience in the data centre business and has been involved in the design and the project management of over 1,000,000 square feet of data centre space across Europe. Uniquely, Alex has also operated a number of data centres and has a wealth of experience in the challenges that face companies in operating data centres after the project team have moved on. Through Migration Solutions, Alex and his colleagues bring valuable expertise and experience to all aspects of a data centre, from initial design through to ‘Business As Usual’ operation.

8th November 2007

14.30pm

Achieving a Green Data Centre

Director of Technical Services, Zycko

Ray Ford has been working full time for Zycko for just over two years and has been in the IT arena for over 15 years in a range of different sectors.

Having started off his interest in IT whilst doing his doctorate at Leeds University, working in the medical sector, he then moved onto developing IT solutions for education sectors and has worked closely with major government projects using IT to raise attainment in isolated rural areas. He has had virtualised SANs within the primary and secondary sectors for over 5 years and has been developing SAN solutions in heterogeneous environments for over 7 years. He has spoken widely at SNIA conferences and at SNW, and has presented solution sets to many of the StoreAge international conferences in Israel. In his spare time he has a small holding and enjoys the challenges of raising his family in an isolated rural hamlet.

8th November 2007

15.15pm

Data De-duplication Case Study: Facts, Myths and Benefits

Owner – C2 Solutions

Martin has been in IT nearly twenty years. The majority of his career has been in the corporate world, but for the last few years he has been running his own solutions company.

He has had extensive experience of performance analysis and capacity planning on Mainframe, Open Systems and Networks. This includes use of both Analytical and Simulation modelling techniques. He also spent over 10 years working in the area of Enterprise Storage Architectures including a number of leading edge implementations. Recent projects include the migration of DHL’s data centres from UK to Prague using Disk virtualisation technology for which a global award achieved at SNW in the US, and implementation of Virtual Tape technology at Skoda achieving compression of backup images on disk of over 25:1.

9th November 2007

10.45pm

Business Continuity & Compliance

Consultant, Business Continuity Institute (BCI)

David Lloyd’s working goal is to support the development of effective continuity and crisis management plans, helping organisations to become more resilient to the disruptions – natural or man-made, accidental or deliberate – to which none is immune.

A large part of David's time is taken up as Development Consultant working with the Business Continuity Institute – the BCI – a role within which he specialises in the organisation, facilitation and promotion of workshops and special interest groups designed to maximize the exchange of knowledge and experience amongst participants.

Current projects include the development of a BCI Workshop to explore the lessons to be learned from the recent UK flooding, membership of the BSI Technical Committee on Business Continuity Management that led to the publication of BS25999, and continuing research work with the BSI to develop a British standard for crisis management. Other notable projects include the authoring of “Flu Pandemic: Guidelines for Business” and, during the past four years, almost forty workshops on almost every aspect of business continuity and crisis management.

9th November 2007

10.45pm

Business Protection

Storage Engineer, Deutsche Bank

Brian Johnson has worked at several large companies during his career, including: British Telecom, IBM Global Services in Texas, US, Merryl Lynch in New York and Deutsche Bank in New York and London.

Brian has worked in Storage / Backup operations and engineering teams for the past 21 years.

9th November 2007

10.45pm

A Convergent VoIP Implementation

Group IS Director, Zycko

Paul joined Zycko in September 2000 as Development Manager. He was appointed as Group IS Director in August 2003. Prior to joining Zycko, Paul was a software developer / consultant and studied Computer Science and Management at Postgraduate level.

Paul has led the implementation of a best-of-breed infrastructure solution at Zycko that supports a fast growing company with ten global offices across four continents.

9th November 2007

11.45pm

Voice & Video over IP

Independent Voice and Video Consultant

Phil Marshman has been engaged with communication technologies over IP since the late 90’s and since that time has worked on a large number of projects from the very simple to large scale Voice and video rollouts. Phil is the owner of his own Telecom’s business and consultant to a number of other international communication businesses.

Phil spent three years in a business development role for Polycom, working with some of EMEA’s carriers, building a unique high level view of the developing market. Phil then founded the Zycko VoIP division, which converged into Zycko’s main core business.

Although the ability to bring together voice, video and data into one infrastructure has been around for some time now, we have yet to see the true benefits of converging Voice, Video and Data. Phil’s vision is that the real explosive growth is yet to come.

9th November 2007

12.40pm

Consequences of Distributed Working

Service Director, Freeform Dynamics

As Service Director, Jon is a member of the Freeform Dynamics management team and is responsible for looking after the company’s portfolio of services and alliances strategy, which are intimately linked given the open collaborative culture of the organisation.

Also an active industry analyst, Jon has an end-user background, having worked as an IT consultant, network manager and software engineer for companies such as Admiral Management Services Ltd, Alcatel and Philips Electronics. Through positions such as these, Jon has accumulated significant real world expertise and experience in many areas of IT service delivery over the years, including IT service management, IT security, infrastructure management, IT architecture and application development.

Jon has worked as an industry analyst since 1999 for companies including IDC, Bloor Research, Quocirca and Macehiter Ward-Dutton. He is a widely published author and has acted as an advisor to leading vendors including Cisco, EMC, IBM and Microsoft; and to large IT user organisations in the Government, Telecommunications and Financial Services sectors.

9th November 2007

11.45am

Consolidation & Centralisation

Technical Training Consultant

Claudia Lima is a director of Pegasus Consultancy Services Ltd where she works with a team of storage and data networking professionals who have a thorough and comprehensive industry experience.

Working during the last 12 years with leading storage and switch manufacturers, she has been helping businesses prepare their sales and technical forces to understand the evolution and needs of the storage industry.

Claudia holds a First Class Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers since 1996. A natural educator, Claudia helped develop material for the respected SNIA storage certification and has recently developed courses for new training entrees, including Fibre Channel protocol and some specific storage vendors' products.