Data center end-user operators in and around Dallas are facing considerable challenges with regard to power and water due to the serious drought affecting the region. Many are operating under extreme conditions, managing their resources with even greater scrutiny while attempting to mitigate possible risks. This has caused many to explore their outsourcing options, weighing risk and security against the benefits, utilizing cost-saving Cloud technologies. In addition to these resource limitations, the economy has taken a turn for the worse, compounding the problem by increasing budgetary restrictions.

What are your operational challenges? Has the recession transformed the way you do business? Is the rising cost of energy putting a strain on your budget? Has the drought drained more than just your resources? DatacenterDynamics Dallas will examine these issues through our traditional 3 themes: Design-Build-Operate, Outsourcing Decisions, and IT Optimization. All end-users will benefit from the insight of the industry’s leading IT professionals presenting case studies or technical papers on issues facing the data center and IT infrastructure community, unique to the Dallas and DFW metro area.

Design, Build, Operate

Design, Build, Operate is our longest running conference theme and focuses on every part of the mission-critical facility lifecycle. From site selection and engineering design through to power availability and full data center automation; this is a must attend event for any organization embarking on a new data center project or operating existing facilities.

Outsourcing Decisions

For every decision to build a data center there is one to outsource. From collocation to Platform as a Service, from Software as a Service, to building your data center capacity in the cloud, what are the options most appropriate to your organization? This conference theme explores an enterprise's strategic options for data center outsourcing, weighing up the economic benefits, the risks and the performance characteristics against those of doing it yourself.

IT Optimization

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. The ITO conference stream provides insight on how IT needs drive data center strategy and how that impacts infrastructure requirements.