The Chicago Way: Low Latency, Business Performance, Strategic Outsourcing, and IT Optimization

The growth of technology in the Chicago market is creating specific infrastructure and technology demands. Archaic business models have been replaced by technological advancement, thereby causing an increasing demand for more data center and IT mission critical infrastructure. As a result, some unique trends and obstacles have emerged for the end-user community. Issues previously unique only to major corporations are now shared by all end-users, adapting their IT infrastructure to meet growing business demands, take competitive advantage, and meet compliance.

If you face challenges with exchange and trading floor latency, strategic outsourcing and management, virtualization or energy efficiency and cost savings, do not miss the 5th Annual DatacenterDynamics Chicago conference!

DatacenterDynamics Chicago will examine these issues through our traditional 3 themes: Design, Build, Operate- Outsourcing Decisions- IT Optimization. No matter what their role in the data center, attendees will be able to benefit from the insight of some of the world’s industry leading practitioners presenting case studies or technical papers on how to optimize internal and external IT requirements from a facility, IT and business perspective.

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

Not too long ago data center 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 center.   

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

Enterprises continually need to evaluate their data center 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 – optimizing all the systems that run within it is crucial, from processing to storage to network to application.  

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