From skills gaps to outages and much worse, data center operators are increasingly challenged by new threats to operational continuity amongst other things. They do not face these alone but rarely does the competitive environment allow for a collaborative approach to addressing them, despite "open source" everywhere we look.

We ask our panel of experts that have seen many industry initiatives over the years about the ones they rate, why many fail and why the data center industry should be more supportive of them, or not. Everything's on the table.