The superhighway for digital transformation of business and industry passes through a new breed of highly specialized computing-at-the-edge-of-network data centers. Edge compute data centers are increasingly software-defined and deploy advanced infrastructure technology sets, both in IT and facilities M&E.

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The DCD>Edge Leadership Roundtables comprise an afternoon on September 25, 2017 at the Dallas Fairmont Hotel, dedicated to exploring the full range of edge-network compute options for the trinity of digital transformation technology demand – streaming/interactive content delivery, IoT, and mobility. Edge compute can be housed in purpose-designed and built facilities ranging from HPC in mini and micro PODs to full-scale, state of the art data centers.

The Roundtables are on the afternoon preceding the full DCD>Colo + Cloud conference and expo, September 26.

“The data center industry appears to be pulling in two different and necessary fast-growth directions,” says Bruce Taylor, DCD conference chair, “One points toward the mega-scale computing and storage facility demanded by the exponential growth in cloud. The countervailing force is toward high-performance in increasingly smaller footprints at the interconnected network compute edge.”

“Increasingly, smart IoT demands that compute horsepower and memory/storage capacity necessary for big data analytics be located as close to the point of data collection as possible. This pushes a whole new set of smart, software-defined capabilities to the edge.”

Delegate participation in the DCD>Edge Roundtables afternoon is limited to 200 business and technology professionals from both IT stack disciplines and facilities M&E infrastructure and operations.

Open-Compute Engineering Workshops

Also on September 25, the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) will host three workshops on rack and power, servers/mezz card, and OCP-ready data centers for colo. “These workshops are intended to encourage, empower, and inspire,” says OCP Foundation CTO Bill Carter, who leads the faculty for the workshops.

“We hope that we will foster collaboration and contribution, and help participants to bring the benefits of OCP into their organizations.”

Visit the website for more information. If you’d like to attend the pre-conference day and DCD>Colo + Cloud, you can register here.