With release of the updated schedule of content tracks for 2016 DatacenterDynamics continues in the vanguard of a new-world conversation driving the data center sector forward into the unchartered waters of the zettabyte era, where cloud and IoT dominate. 

“The technology and services that underpin both on-premise and shared digital infrastructure are evolving at such a fast pace that it’s difficult for both traditional vendor and end-user silos to keep up,” says Bruce Taylor, EVP, DatacenterDynamics. “Their existence is directly challenged by both automation and hardware commoditization, so we’re leading the discussion of ‘what’s next?’ across the full enterprise digital infrastructure eco-system.”

George Rockett, CEO, DatacenterDynamics adds, “Tracks are the essential content themes that will permeate DCD’s research initiatives, editorial content schedules and conference programs in 2016. Existing tracks have been updated and we have added two new ones; ‘Core>Edge’ that dives deep into network transformation and ‘Software-Defined’ which explores the evolution toward data-driven data center automation at every layer of the infrastructure cake and the move towards the truly Software-Defined Data Centers.” 

DCD Tracks for 2016

DESIGN+BUILD
Focused on what’s new in data center design, value engineering and construction methodologies within the emerging data center segments.

COLO+CLOUD
Focused on understanding complex options and issues in data center capacity and IT services options, including outsourcing, integration and management of IaaS, PaaS and DCaaS.

CORE>EDGE
Focused on the internal and external data center transit layer from core to edge and the rapidly developing data center interconnect [DCI] eco-system.

SERVERS+STORAGE
Focused ‘North of the Rack’ on understanding the impact of compute and storage transformation on IT capacity requirements, data center design and architecture.

POWER+COOLING
Focused ‘South of the Rack’ on engineering, operations and facilities management and optimizing the performance, efficiency and resilience of the critical environment.

SOFTWARE-DEFINED
Focused on understanding the journey towards the true software defined data center that requires automation at every layer of the stack.

OPEN-SOURCE
Focused on the open-source data center movement and the transition from proprietary to non-proprietary software and hardware models.

SECURITY+RISK
Focused on both business and technology risk and managing the security of ever-more virtual distributed ICT and critical environment infrastructure.

Event locations for 2016

For further details on our 2016 events calendar and media schedule contact [email protected]