The role of the datacenter, and the services for which it is a platform, are continuously evolving. While multi-tenant datacenter providers have persevered through the credit crunch, for enterprises and global businesses, the picture was much more bleak in 2009. This has caused outsourced services to become an acceptable alternative to the normal build-it-yourself mentality. This in turn has gained the attention of the financial community, to varying degrees. Join Tier1’s Vice President & Research Director, Antonio Piraino, as he discusses the current state of the datacenter market, trends seen in the Internet Infrastructure market overall, and Tier1’s expectations for the future of these facilities

The de facto 'build your own' mentality is shifting, and not only for small enterprises. Many companies continue to build their own datacenters; but there are also those offloading this process to dedicated datacenter providers. When should you build your own datacenter, and when is it more practical to lease? Join moderator Jeff Paschke and his distinguished panel of datacenter providers and end users as they duke it out on the build-vs.-lease conundrum.

Is the capital crunch really over? What mechanisms are available to datacenter providers to raise capital? How long will capital constraints for new datacenter providers continue? Is private equity filling the void? Join moderator Aleetalynn Schenesky-Stronge and a distinguished panel of finance experts as they discuss the issues surrounding the ability to obtain capital for construction, and what the near-term and midterm ramifications of the capital crunch will be on the industry.

With the phenomenal hype that cloud computing and enterprise clouds have brought to the developer and now, more so, the enterprise world, there is an inevitable upswing in outsourced services that will impact the datacenter market. Does this necessarily correlate with an increase in datacenter space utilization, or purely power consumption; or do the efficiencies inherent in the new solutions have an opposing impact? This leadership perspective will provide an update on the cloud services market and its biggest trends – from telecom providers and hosters, to private enterprise clouds and their software solutions, and their impact on the datacenter market.

Speed to market, cost, reliability, efficiency and other factors are changing the game in how datacenters are built. The datacenter industry has historically been relatively slow-moving technologically, but these and other motivators are paving the way for more open-mindedness with regard to datacenter architectures. What new and exciting things are in store for the datacenters of the future, and what fads will be short-lived? Join datacenter engineering guru Jason Schafer and his panel of experts to discuss the latest advances in datacenter technologies.

The physical design of the datacenter is only half of the picture – the way in which it is operated, maintained and commissioned is another huge variable in the equation for business continuity. Join moderator Jason Schafer and a distinguished panel of experts to discuss the more intricate aspects and best practices of datacenter operations and maintenance that are often taken for granted.

Energy efficiency and related standards are becoming increasingly important for datacenter providers. Energy Star for Datacenters and LEED – what do they mean for business, and how applicable are they? Can standards for refrigerators be adopted for datacenters or the equipment therein? Join industry experts for an in-depth discussion of standards, their applicability and future implications for the datacenter industry