The Nordic region has cemented its place in pioneering research into the development and application of technology for data centre requirements. The development of reliable low carbon energy sources and the viability of free cooling on a commercial level have attracted serious investment in the sector from both regional and international companies. 

The continued growth of the data centre sector and the increased energy demands that go with it, will require ever-greater focus on facility efficiency and investment in the correct technologies in order to meet underlying corporate interests as well as, broader national and international energy targets. The Datacenter Dynamics 2011 Stockholm conference will bring together data centre professionals from across the Nordic region to explore through a programme of presentations, case studies and panel discussions the latest developments in areas such as facility efficiency and effectiveness, infrastructure architectures and security.

From site selection and construction through to cooling and power availability, and data centre automation, Design, Build, Operate sessions at DatacenterDynamics are must attend for any organisation intending to build a data centre or running existing facilities.  

Not too long ago data centre facilities were designed for constant loads and steady availability, now they are dynamic. The transition from single tier, to multi tier to dynamic tier. Application, hardware and physical infrastructure are following this rule: from servers that power down, to distributed applications, even to variable frequency drive fans. DCIM tools hold out the promise of monitoring in an holistic way the IT and facility infrastructure to enable the dynamic data centre.   

The focus now is on scalable and modular data centre design to reduce energy consumption. DatacenterDynamics  will demonstrate how to plan for and build data centres , taking into account all the component parts and their configuration

Depending on the size of the enterprise, outsourcing is rarely an all or nothing proposition. The challenge for CIOs, CTOs and data centre management is to decide what it makes sense to outsource and what is so strategic that you must keep it in house, and how to optimise the management of owned data centre infrastructure with capabilities that are in the cloud, at a collocation provider, or with a managed services operation.

 

Enterprises continually need to evaluate their data centre requirements and decide on how best to accommodate growth and the changing way in which business operates and uses IT. The efficiency of the facility is only half the equation – optimising all the systems that run within it is crucial, from processing to storage to network to application.

 Securing improved IT Optimisation, for example with virtualisation or a private cloud, can help data centre and IT management determine the need for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), or Software-as-a-service (SaaS). IT Optimisation themed sessions will provide insight on how IT needs drive data centre strategy and how best to deliver the required infrastructure.