The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) invited members of the media to attend its Data Center Workshop. Held November 11-12, the workshop will address critical issues facing the entire data center value chain – from cloud service providers and equipment vendors to end-users involved in enterprise, government, finance, and more.
Government and enterprise executives will tour CenturyLink Technology Solutions’ data center in Sterling, Va. on November 11. The second day (November 12) – which takes place at TIA’s headquarters in Arlington, Va. – will feature experts from Google, Microsoft, CenturyLink, RagingWire, SANS Institute, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other leading organizations and will highlight the critical issues affecting the dramatically changing data center landscape and the IT needs of organizations.
Panel discussion topics on November 12 include emerging developments in cross-border data flows (including EU-U.S. Safe Harbor and ongoing trade agreement negotiations), cybersecurity issues affecting the enterprise and government, new strategies for meeting organizations’ IT needs, technological advances in software-defined networking, and more.
Additional topics include architecture and cabling for “Beyond-100G” data centers and how cloud service providers, ISPs, MSOs, and enterprises can meet extremely low-latency connection requirements in increasingly congested network infrastructures. Panelists will also address recent efforts by manufacturers and standards organizations to define new 25/50G and 400G Ethernet connections within data center facilities. The workshop is sponsored by Dell, Power & Tel, Henkels & McCoy, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, and CenturyLink Technology Solutions.
To register for the Data Center Workshop, or for more information about the workshop and the CenturyLink tour, please contact Farrah Kim at FarrahKim@rational360.com or 202.568.8986.
