In 2017 the enterprise cloud will continue its evolution toward a multi-cloud future. Our roundtable panel of data center experts discusses where enterprise data will reside, and why.
Data Center Frontier Executive Roundtable
The Data Center Frontier Executive Roundtable is a feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. At the close of each quarter, we convene a conversation between a group of experienced executives from the data center, colocation and cloud computing industries. The questions change to address the latest industry developments, including trends in data center design, site selection, cooling and business models.
Executive Roundtable: Data Center Trends to Watch in 2017
Edge computing will be one of the big stories of 2017, boosting the use of modular data centers, according to the 5 experts on our Executive Roundtable. Other hot topics: security and rack density.
Internet of Things Drives Focus on Edge Computing
The Data Center Frontier Executive Roundtable discusses the impact of edge computing and the Internet of Things, and how these trends are influencing how and where data centers are built and deployed.
Modular Strategies Helping Deploy Data Centers Faster
Our Executive Roundtable panel examines the challenge of rapid deployment of data center capacity for major cloud computing providers, and the steps the industry is taking to meet these demands.
Specialty Clouds Will Rise Alongside the Mega-Clouds
Our Executive Roundtable of data center thought leaders discusses how the evolution of cloud computing is changing the environment for data center service providers.
Executive Roundtable: Cooling Guides New Data Center Designs
In our new Executive Roundtable, five thought leaders discuss the evolution of data center design, and how it is being shaped by cooling strategies.
IoT, Virtual Reality Will Create More Data, More Demand
Emerging technologies like the Internet of Things, virtual reality and machine learning will generate vast amounts of data, which will require additional data center capacity to store, according to panelists from our Executive Roundtable.
Seeking the Next Frontier in Data Center Energy Efficiency
Our Executive Roundtable examines the data center industry’s track record on energy efficiency, assessing the progress thus far and laying out the strategies that can take efficiency to the next level.
Roundtable: Making Renewable Energy Work for Data Centers
Our Executive Roundtable discusses at the data center industry’s progress on using renewable energy, the economics of procuring green power, and the renewable options that offer the most potential going forward.
Executive Roundtable: Cloud Growth Drives Wholesale Demand
Our Executive Roundtable panel of six industry veterans explores how cloud demand is disrupting the market for wholesale data center space.
Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 15 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution.