INOC To Speak At The AFCOM Data Center World Orlando Conference
Art Meierdirk and Rick Smith to discuss next-gen NOCs, software-defined data centers, cloud, and DCIM.
INOC has announced that its senior director of business services, Art Meierdirk, and co-founder and vice president of customer advocacy, Rick Smith, have been selected to speak at the AFCOM Data Center World Orlando Conference, taking place at the Hyatt Regency Orlando October 19-22, 2014. AFCOM Data Center World is the premier international conference for data center and facilities management professionals.
Meierdirk will moderate the panel, “Software-defined Data Centers: Next Steps for Storage & Networking” on Monday, October 20, 2014 from 9:10 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. in the Manatee Spring 1 room. During the session, Meierdirk and fellow panelists Marco Alves, COO, SDN Essentials; Bina Hallman, vice president, Storage Systems Product Management, IBM; and Aaron Rallo, founder and CEO, TSO Logic, will discuss the deployment, opportunities and risk associated with Software-defined Data Centers (SDDCs), including software-defined storage (SDS) and Software-defined Networks (SDN). The panel will also offer data center service providers a foundation for their strategic SDDC plans, encompassing asset management, security and IT Systems, and management planning.