As Data Center professionals ourselves, we understand the pace of change is rapidly expanding with the explosion new technologies, the need to manage increasingly complex data center assets, overall demand outpacing supply, the push towards big data analytics, growth in cloud services, and expansion within the social media space:
- Transformative change is happening within the ecosystem. Informed decisions about convergence models, open source, open compute, open IX and interconnected ecosystems, modular data center advancement, noSQL’s, structured data integration, unstructured data, high definition data, Flash memory, data primacy, and data supply chain management will be critical to your success
- Capacity planning issues—including energy demand, storage, wholesale and modular options—are becoming bigger concerns for Data Center Professionals.
- Data Center professionals are increasingly required to not only understand both the facilities and IT side of operations; they must also ensure that their staff are equipped with needed skills to meet changing future demands of the emerging ecosystem.
- Data Center Professionals must also understand a complex array of choices in management options, geography and globalization issues, organizational development and succession planning options, leadership infrastructure, vendor selection, optimization, monitoring, systems integration, interoperability, and the list goes on…