October 18, 2017 — Host in Ireland, a strategic global initiative created to increase awareness of the benefits of hosting digital assets in Ireland, and winner of the Datacloud Europe 2016 award for Innovative Data Center Location, today announces that its Founder and President, Garry Connolly, will be speaking at Bisnow’s Data Center Investment Conference & Expo, Northeast, taking place October 26, 2017 at 7 World Trade Center in New York. He will be participating on the panel, “Data Center Site Selection: Big Picture Strategy, Cost of Land & Power, Economic Incentive and Beyond.” Mr. Connolly, who is also co-chair of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Awareness Coalition, has more than 30 years’ experience in data centre site selection, demonstrating a pragmatic and commonsense approach to sales, negotiation, company start-ups and strategic thinking.
Mr. Connolly will be joined at the event by Phill Lawson-Shanks, chief architect and vice president of innovation, EdgeConneX®, and a Host in Ireland Executive Committee member. Mr. Lawson-Shanks will be participating on the panel, “The Cloud Revolution: From Fiber to Cyber.” EdgeConneX Edge Data Centers® (EDCs) are proximity-based, strategically located nearest to the end-user’s point of access to reduce network latency and optimize performance. As Mr. Lawson-Shanks will discuss, local proximity access brings the cloud closer to the enterprise, enabling more secure, real-time access to cloud applications and services while offering reduced backbone transport costs.
WHAT:
Panel: “Data Center Site Selection: Big Picture Strategy, Cost of Land & Power, Economic Incentive and Beyond”
Panel: The Cloud Revolution: From Fiber to Cyber
WHERE:
Data Center Investment Conference & Expo, Northeast
7 World Trade Center
New York
WHEN:
October 26, 2017
“Data Center Site Selection: Big Picture Strategy, Cost of Land & Power, Economic Incentive and Beyond.”
9:05 a.m. ET
“The Cloud Revolution: From Fiber to Cyber”
11:15 a.m. ET
WHO:
“Data Center Site Selection” panel members include:
Garry Connolly, Founder and President, Host in Ireland
Stephen Campbell, Manager, Business Development, Con Edison
Gerald Marshall, President and CEO, Netrality Properties
Scott Millar, President, Catawba County Economic Development Corporation
Todd Raymond, CEO and Managing Partner, fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty
Tony Rossabi, EVP and Chief Revenue Officer, TierPoint
Moderator: Sonia Khanna, Director, Commercial Real Estate Finance, CapitalSource
“The Cloud Revolution: From Fiber to Cyber” panel members include:
Phill Lawson-Shanks, Chief Architect & VP, Innovation, EdgeConneX
Michael Higgins, Senior VP, Colocation Business Unit, Internap Corporation (INAP)
Peter Feldman, CEO & Principal, DataGryd
Phil Koblence, Co-Founder & COO, New York Internet
Christian Koch, Manager, Core Network Planning, Pilot Fiber
Jeff Moerdler, Member, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
About Host in Ireland
Host in Ireland, winner of the Datacloud Europe 2016 award for Innovative Data Center Location, is an industry-led marketing initiative that provides timely and accurate information about Ireland’s digital asset hosting ecosystem at all times including demonstrating why Ireland is more cost-effective, efficient, reliable, secure and accessible than most other regions across the EU. There’s a reason companies like Microsoft, Zendesk, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Adobe and beyond have sought to host their solutions in as well as to/from Ireland. Many of these reasons are immediately realized due to access to affordable power, redundant network and bandwidth capacity along with a variety of data center providers that offer an array of services sustained by the “5 Ps”: Policy, People, Pedigree, Pipes, and Power. On top of that is a very attractive business management structure, implemented by Ireland, which is keenly interested to bring new businesses into the market. Ireland supports this initiative through attractive fiscal structures, access to a skilled workforce and full support of the U.S. Safe Harbor and Patriot Acts – ensuring data asset compliance for companies large and small. For more information about Host in Ireland, visit www.hostinireland.com.
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