March 9, 2016 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. St. Andrew’s Club & Conference Center 150 King Street West, 27th Floor Toronto, ON LEADERSHIP SERIES CGE Next Gen Datacenter (Converged+) For more information please contact Laskey Hart: laskeyh@netgov.ca or (905)-727-3875 x235 Visit us at www.rightcrowdevents.com SpeAKerS: Tony Olvet Group Vice President, Research Tony Olvet is Group Vice President of the research domains team at IDC Canada. He is responsible for managing the services and research direction of the technology market analysts in Canada. Mr. Olvet is also a member of IDC Canada’s Senior Leadership Team. David Senf Program Vice President, Infrastructure Solutions Group David Senf is IDC Canada’s Program Vice President, Infra- structure Solutions Group. His team forecasts and tracks the markets and competitors in the cloud, servers, storage, networking, security, software tools, and virtualization. He works with vendors, the channel, CIOs and IT professionals to form a complete picture of buying patterns. Most organizations have a solid handle on their hardware footprint and capex within the data- centre. The focus now needs to turn towards the operational side to expand automation and or- chestration capabilities. IDC studied several hun- dred Canadian organizations’ IT operations in the datacentre to learn their successes, failures and progress. Converged, hyperconverged, software- defined datacentre, DevOps tools and other new technologies and processes are intended to target operations pain points. Learn what your Canadian peers are deploying in their datacentre and what is working / not working as IDC pres- ents insights from its 2015 Canadian IT Opera- tions Study. Brought to you by: In partnership with: