Enterprise IT buyers are adopting new solutions to address long-existing datacenter issues. In an era of constrained capex and growing datacenter demands, Tier1 Research Director Daniel Golding provides a clear roadmap for meeting enterprise requirements with a new vision of colocation, as well as wholesale datacenter and internal assets.

Service Level Agreements, drills, operational procedures, provisioning, testing: once a datacenter is built, the real work of operations begins. The best design in the world is useless without top flight operational practices - but how we we learn and implement them?

For the first time in 20 years, the way we build datacenters is open to significant debate. Whats in play? Traditional designs, modularization, and containers. Whats at stake? Capex, reliability, and our collective credibility.

Incremental opportunities to improve exist even in established and well managed sites. This presentation will provide actionable ideas for both hosting firms and their tenants to improve the stability of the operating environment.

The rise of datacenter real estate firms has made the concept of datacenter leasing a reality. However, its not an approach that has been universally adopted. When is it smart to lease, and when should a greenfield be your approach?

How does 24x7x365 datacenter operations change when managed services and cloud computing become parts of the equation? Is the cloud datacenter a new beast entirely or a different tune on the same instrument? And how will datacenter technologies adapt to this new world of IT?