The universal challenge for the data center industry remains how to manage unpredictable growing demand today, while remaining flexible for the future. With the explosion in demand from IoT driving edge deployments, meeting that disruption from the core to the edge with conventional building approaches will be near impossible. So how will demand be met?

This panel examines new reference architectures and standardization. Have we now made the shift from prefabricated modular data centers being perceived as an alternative and disruptive technology to becoming the default option for new data center capacity in the future? We ask our panel of experts: is prefabrication now the only option to deliver at speed and scale and future proof the data center? And if not, what is?