• Why hybrid environments prove to be an effective strategy for IT leaders who want to achieve dynamic business objectives while minimizing cost and maximizing productivity

• How a hybrid approach can help IT and technology leaders shore up an overall risk mitigation strategy: While applications with intense security or compliance needs may be better protected in a data center, those that don’t have those characteristics can move to the cloud

• Sorting between elastic and non-elastic applications, and why key non-elastic applications, like steady-state computing and production storage, are often better served in a data center than in the cloud

• Strengthening the data center so that it can continue to provide stability, affordability, and an essential utility through your complex digital transformation initiatives

• Meeting the increasing demand for capacity through effective design and development

• Why the growth of a data center or data center network is too often constrained by its own design, management practices, production objectives, and resource priorities

• Overcoming blockages and ensuring the smooth running of your data centre operations

• Determining a connectivity strategy which includes a solid interconnectivity strategy between components 

• Adopting a pay-as-you-grow plan which combines flexible building design with component-based infrastructure

• Using your own data centre intelligently to mitigate any risk posed by a shared infrastructure such as public cloud

• Steps to enable your data center to meet your business continuity and disaster recovery requirements demand an on-premises data centre to meet your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) targets 

• In contrast to the public cloud, why the data center offers the chance to have greater control over applications, as well as assuring availability, performance and speed

• Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a new generation of business computing that’s purpose built for rapid deployment and ease of management

• How you can utilise hyperconvergence to give you lower total cost of ownership over time compared with public cloud fees and achieve further savings in terms of networking and IT staff time

• Leveraging best in class cooling and energy solutions to minimize the environmental footprint of data centers

• Discover how you can run data centre infrastructure almost completely decarbonised, using green energy

• Benefits of fire detection technology and using AI to assist with cooling equipment

• Why we are turning to Li-Ion battery energy storage systems (BESS) to replace diesel gensets and achieve fully decarbonized operations

• Determining green end-of-life plans for retiring older equipment: Reduce, reuse, recycle