Roundtable Recap: Mid-Year Update on Key Data Center Trends

June 25, 2021
Here’s a mid-year update on key trends for 2021: A recap of our Data Center Executive Roundtable, featuring expert insights from executives at Iron Mountain, Vertiv, Aligned, EdgeConnex, Infrastructure Masons, Nortek Data Center Cooling and Data Aire.

Our 23rd Data Center Executive Roundtable offers insights on four topics: Rack density trends and cooling strategies, the outlook for data center staffing, enterprise data center demand and options, and the state of edge computing.

Here is the full question and answer session, organized by topic.

Here are links to the individual Q&A summaries for each of our distinguished panel members:

The conversation is moderated by Data Center Frontier Founder and editor Rich Miller.

Thanks to all of our executive participants for sharing their time and insights!

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About the Author

Rich Miller

I write about the places where the Internet lives, telling the story of data centers and the people who build them. I founded Data Center Knowledge, the data center industry's leading news site. Now I'm exploring the future of cloud computing at Data Center Frontier.

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