May 14, 2013, Uptime Institute Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Lawrence from 451 Research evaluated trends and drivers to consider which ones will be significant over the next 5-20 years. The difficulty is taking such a long-term focus is that the technologies can change very dramatically even within the lower-end of the range. To demonstrate this…
May 14, 2013, Uptime Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Kevin Brown from Schneider-Electric proposed some evaluation criteria for supporting a make or buy decision for new data center capacity. The primary pieces for evaluation are cost, cash flow, and strategic factors for upgrade, build additional capacity, or outsource. Existing evaluations are based on rigid financial models and…
May 14, 2013, Uptime Institute Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Matt Stansberry from the Uptime Institute shared the results of an on-going survey of data center managers. The available results represent one thousand responses, mostly from the US. Other areas are being added as the survey is translated to other languages. Respondents indicated that 82 percent are…