Tony Bishop, Senior Vice President, Platform & Ecosystem Strategy at Digital Realty, explores how to weather today’s perfect storm of digital data, IT leaders must adopt a strategy that implements local network ingress/egress within proximity to centers of data exchange, interconnected to digital ecosystems and tailored to business needs.
Why Universities Require a Data Center Provider That’s Completed Its Homework
Raul Martynek, CEO at DataBank, explores how a campus data center that will showcase the importance a school places on science and technology calls for an expert data center partner that higher education institutions can trust.
Right Place, Right Time, Right Size: Edge Solutions Take Shape
Chief Marketing Officer at EdgeConneX, Phillip Marangella, highlights how creating a successful build-to-order data center is directly tied to edge solutions. Explore the edge, in “whatever shape it needs to be.”
Examining the Relationship Between Data Center PUE and Colocation TCO
Tim Mirick, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Sabey Data Centers, explores Green Grid’s Power Usage Efficiency within the data center industry. Greater facility efficiency and data center PUE are largely tied to colocation TCO.
Power Utilization: Big Power Infrastructure Means Big Savings
Peter Panfil, Vice President of Global Power Sales at Vertiv, explores the ins and outs of data center power utilization and ways to avoid excess capacity and cut down on costs while driving up revenue.
Optimizing Cloud Connectivity TCO vs Latency
Mitch Fonseca, VP, Data Center Products, Cyxtera, explores how choosing colocation providers with a range of cloud connectivity options and on-demand provisioning to speed time to deployment may be a key way to balance costs with latency.
Mitigating Data Center Risk in an Uncertain Economy
Today’s interconnected world poses challenges to protecting data and digital assets. Jim Henry of Iron Mountain Data Centers shares how comprehensive data center compliance and certification programs can help organizations mitigate risk.
Disaster Planning for Critical Environments in an Unpredictable World
The list of possible disasters seems endless: flood, fire, cyberattack, hurricane, terrorism, blackout and more. Critical engineering expert Kevin Rosen of Stream Data Centers discusses the importance of disaster planning in maintaining uptime and continuing mission-critical operations during and after a crisis.
Data Centers Find Their Edge: DCIM Solutions Prove Key
Jeff Klaus, General Manager of Intel Data Center Management Solutions, explores how for remote facilities at the edge of the network, DCIM Solutions are key to supporting enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) and big data.
Data Center Infrastructure Management 101: Defining DCIM in 2019
Look up the definition of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) from a few different sources and you’ll get different definitions from each. Herman Chan, president of Sunbird Software, explores what data center infrastructure management really means and what it entails for modern enterprises and data centers.
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