Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 07 | Page 30

DCA IT’S NO TIME TO H REST ON YOUR LAURELS! In this regular monthly input from our partners, the Data Center Alliance (DCA), Steve Hone, CEO, DCA, in this first instalment of two, discusses the best from the global data centre industry events. 30 INTELLIGENTCIO ave you noticed that times are changing? Data centre events and conferences always used to be clustered in the Spring and Autumn seasons; however, with so such an importance now being placed on the data centre sector, there are now events spread throughout the year which are designed to help answer some of the many burning questions we all have as we sprint to keep up with change and an explosion in demand for digital services. In April we have just seen one of the biggest conferences of the European calendar, that being Data Centre World UK. This year’s event brought a record breaking number of delegates to the 2 day event. I believe from the organisers Closer Still Media that delegates had access to over 500 leading global www.intelligentcio.com