BICSI Virtual ICT Forum - The Future of Data Centre Infrastructure and Network Management

We are very much looking forward to our discussion surrounding "The future of Data Centre Infrastructure and Network Management" at a virtual ICT forum - hosted by BICSI on the 11th of February 2021. With speakers including our very own Rifai Khan, Mark Acton and Yoel Zahar. Follow here to register - https://www.bicsi.org/event-details?ID=26471&ProductID=30024

For this virtual event, which is to be hosted via Zoom. We will be joining AFL Hyperscale and Cailabs in presenting three technical presentations for educational purposes.

During our hour and ten minute slot, we will be discussing :

• Making Automated Infrastructure Management (AIM) work for data centres
• How DCIM is evolving from reactive to predictive to proactive

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The event, which is running between 12pm - 4pm (GMT) will see our very own Rifai Khan, Mark Acton and Yoel Zahar discussing "The future of Data Centre Infrastructure and Network Management" from 13:25- 14:35 (GMT). Please see below for the full agenda and a brief description of our speakers.

AGENDA:

12:00-12:10 - Opening Remarks & BICSI Presentation

12:10-13:10 - “Updates and trends of Passive Optical LAN”
Stefan Heldens – Head of Business Management Passive Optical LAN –Nokia Magnus Bjelkefelt - Senior Applications Manager - Enersys

13:10-13:20 - Cailabs – What’s New, What’s It Do? Roshanak Le Goïc - International Business Development Manager - Cailabs

13:20-13:25 - Delegate Break

13:25-14:25 - “The future of Data Centre Infrastructure and Network Management”
Rifai Khan – IIM / AIM Specialist – RiT Tech
Mark Acton – Business Strategy and Technology Director - RiT Tech
Yoel Zohar - VP R&D – RiT Tech

14:25-14:35 - RiT Tech – What’s New, What’s It Do? Mark Acton – Business Strategy and Technology Director - RiT Tech

14:35-14:40 - Delegate Break

14:40-15:40 - “Increasing Optical Bandwidth at the Physical Layer”
Aungwin Tin - Director of Sales, Global Accounts – AFL Hyperscale

15:40-15:50 - AFL Hyperscale - What’s New, What’s It Do? Alistair Kerr – EMEA Hyperscale Program Manager - AFL Hyperscale

15:50-16:00 - Closing Remarks and Door Prizes.

Rifai Khan

Head of Technical Support, RiT Tech

16 Years of experience in the Datacentre Network Infrastructure Management and its implementation, Rifai Khan is an IIM / AIM ( Automated Infrastructure Management) specialist working with RiT Tech having vast experience in implementing large scale DNIO / AIM projects worldwide.

Mark Acton

Business Strategy and Technology Director, RiT Tech

With over 25 years of experience in the Data Centre sector industry Mark has been a specialist in the field of Data Centre Operations for over 20 years, concentrating on the delivery of business critical services from highly reliable, world class Data Centres with 24x365 availability expectations.

A Technical Operations Manager with extensive international experience and solid technical skills combining Data Centre Facilities Design, IT and Facilities Operational Management with Technical Consulting. Regular public speaker, conference host and industry advisor on data centre technical issues as well as being involved in International (ISO) data centre Standards development.

Yoel Zohar

VP R&D, RiT Tech

20 years of experience in software project development, extensive experience in developing and implementing solutions for communication systems management and communication room management combined with integration to systems such as: CMDB, HELP-DESK, BMS, ITSM, NETWORKING and more.

 All this using protocols such as: SNMP, TCP / IP, BACKNET, WS, and much more knowledge in a variety of development languages: C ++,
C #, WEB, JavaScript / TypeScript, SQL and more.