Toward A Framework For Data Center Sustainability
Workshop Date: March 28, 2022
Global gathering: A dozen of the industry's greatest minds attended an AFCOM Leaders Lab workshop during Data Center World 2022 to peer-review and validate a framework designed to quantify and simplify data center sustainability.
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The Role of Hyperscalers in your Data Center Strategy
Workshop Date: TBD
As the growth in real estate and workload capacity commanded by hyperscale data centers continues to explode, traditional data center operators especially in certain geographical regions need to determine how the hyperscalers may fi t into their own broader data center design and strategy. How do the likes of Google, Switch, and Equinix impact your own company's data center approach? Do they become stronger partners able to help local companies achieve economies of scale, or do they increasingly become competitors as they suck up available real estate and workload capacity? In this Leaders Lab, our expert advisor will work with attendees to understand where the hyperscale market is headed and what kind of impacts good and bad they can have on how traditional data center managers operate their own workloads.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Best Practices for Maximum Data Center Uptime
Workshop Date: TBD
As data center workload demands continue to skyrocket, your business success depends on keeping the data center running efficiently. The slightest disruptions to performance are having a greater impact on business today than they did even a couple of years ago. How do you maintain business continuity with efficient failover and redundancy, and, in the event of an inevitable disruption, how do you best recover from failures? In this Leaders Lab, our expert advisor will help the attendees understand the latest technologies and processes that will help you achieve maximum data center uptime in a more demanding business environment and provide you with new best practices for disaster recovery planning.
The Data Center Balancing Act from the Core to the Edge
Workshop Date: TBD
In this Leaders Lab, we'll be discussing best practices for using and integrating technologies from power to compute in a data center landscape that is quickly evolving outward from the core. We'll explore strategies for managing complexity, integrating facilities design with IT infrastructure implementation, and building collaboration with all the stakeholders. We're well past the days where legacy infrastructures that is compute, storage, networks, software, power, and cooling are designed and implemented individually in the data center. That kind of approach no longer is feasible to meet the growing demand of enterprise applications and the explosion of data in today's business. Understanding how to balance the requirements of all of the components in real time for a highly scalable data center will enable your businesses to grow and deliver for customers at the pace they demand.
Data Center World
Conference Dates: May 8-11, 2023
Global gathering: All Leaders Lab participants are invited to a special networking event hosted at Data Center World. Results from the Leaders Labs and the resulting whitepapers will be shared at Data Center World.
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