Now in its 10th year DCD Converged Amsterdam is the largest regional conference designed to meet the needs of operators and decision makers involved in all strategic and practical issues surrounding the delivery of corporate IT. The datacenter market in the Benelux region is experiencing unprecedented growth – the DatacenterDynamics Census predicts that over the period 2011-2014 investments in datacenter capacity in the Benelux region will increase by 16% with the total volume of investments coming to €1.2 billion.
The region is a global leader in colocation, where in the Netherlands alone in 2013 27% of the datacenter footprint was outsourced. Can this level of growth be sustained? The high level of sophistication and maturity in the market has shifted the emphasis from facility and investment expenditure to concerns of efficiency. Datacenter monitoring, modular solutions, IT optimisation, DCIM, virtualisation and the software-defined everything, and the increased adoption of outsourcing models have moved centre stage. The ability to future proof your datacenter investment – so that it can grow according to the requirements of your business – is now the key priority.
DCD Converged Amsterdam 2014 covers this whole spectrum of issues and challenges and gives you the perfect opportunity to learn from and network with the senior decision makers and key global players in the Benelux industry. This year sees new content specifically tailored to CIOs and corporate IT decision makers, and a dual track program combining panel discussions, debates, technology spotlights and user case studies.
We’ve assembled an outstanding panel of speakers, including: Lex Coors, Chief Engineering Officer, Interxion – Job Witteman, CEO, AMS-ix – Arjan van Dijk, CIO,Stadgenoot – Peter Witsenburg, Director & Founder, Cloud Makelaar – Christian Dawson, COO, Servint & Founder, i2 Coalition – Olav Steffers, Director, Schipol Area Development Company (SADC) – Stijn Grove, Director, Datacenter Advisors – Jasper Lankhorst, Commercial Director, NL-ix – Wim Boone, Consultant ICT & Datacenters, Ingenium – Hugues De Pra, Head of Architecture, Datacenter & Virtualisation, Cisco – Funs Kessen, Mission Critical Engineer, Schuberg Philis – Wouter Kok, Managing Director, Deerns
