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  • The Open Mobile Summit London 2015 – Big Business Mobile Transformation

    The Open Mobile Summit London 2015 – Big Business Mobile Transformation

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    The Open Mobile Summit London 2015 (29th – 30th June, The Proud Archivist) brings together mobile marketers, creatives and strategists to investigate the impact of placing mobile at the heart of all business operations. Expert speakers from Thomas Cook, Bayer, Bupa, Shazam and many more will share their transformative journeys.

    Biz-news is a Media Partner for the event.

    This is the event for the executives leading the mobile transformation in every sector, including FMCG, finance, travel, automotive, telecoms, utilities and more. They will seek to explore innovative tactics to drive outstanding financial results and increased brand loyalty.

    Highlights include:

    • 20+ expert speakers incl. Shazam, Bayer, Thomas Cook and Financial Times will share their mobile transformation journeys to inspire the audience
    • Meet 150+ mobile marketers, creatives and strategists to discuss how to align the mobile strategy across marketing, IT and corporate culture to stay in tune with their customers and increment the business revenue
    • Get up to speed with the latest mobile marketing strategies, the money making mobile ad tech and the talent that will support the mobile transformation initiative

    Face-to-face networking is crucial to business success. Attendees will have access to our pre & post show e-networker, networking breaks, including a drinks reception on day one.

    Event website.

  • Urgent Requirement for £1billion Upgrade to Britain’s Data Centres

    UK data centres are facing a ‘data crunch’ unless more than £1billion is invested in this critical IT infrastructure over the next 12 months according to Alex Rabbetts, Managing Director of data centre specialists, Migration Solutions.

    Recent unparalleled growth in online services, cloud computing, lean organisation initiatives and the rise of data on mobile phones is seriously risking a melt down in available data centre capacity to the UK.

    “Like the credit crunch, there’s an international dimension to this problem," says Rabbetts. “Worldwide the amount of digital information created last year was 800 billion gigabytes. This year it will grow by a factor of 67 – that’s over a Zettabyte! Simultaneously, the economic downturn has led to a prolonged under-investment in data centre infrastructure at a time when demand is soaring.”

    In the public sector the Cabinet Office has published an IT strategy calling for the G-Cloud, a massive consolidation of the 130 government data centres into 12 super-centres. In the private sector similar initiatives are under way to save money by consolidating and sharing data centre infrastructure.

    Rabbett’s says: “I’m pro modernisation – new, well designed data centres are much more efficient, consume much less power and are better for the environment than legacy solutions. However, in the rush to modernise the UK data centre industry, we have to ensure that we maintain the overall volume of capacity we need today and will inevitably need tomorrow.”

    Migration Solutions calculates that £1billion of new investment in UK data stock will provide 216 Petabytes of additional capacity – that’s just enough to accommodate less than 10% of Google’s Gmail users; or less than 1% of all the video stored on YouTube.

    Alex Rabbetts will be presenting ‘Data Centre 2.0: Managing the Data Crunch and the Power Surge’ at the 360° IT Infrastructure Event in London on 22-23 Sept.