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In this new video from Digital Realty Trust, CTO Jim Smith answers this question and more. Jim explores the relationship between virtualization technology and the data center.

Some experts believe that virtualization will reduce the demand for data centers. In the first of this two-part series, Digital Realty Trust CTO, Jim Smith and Mark Monroe of Energetic Consulting will provide an in-depth overview of the key trends and drivers of the growth and penetration of virtualization and its’ impact on the data center industry. During this webinar Jim and Mark will examine and explain a number of issues including:

• The operational definitions of the types of virtualization
• The status of the adoption of virtualization within the IT community
• The hidden drivers of storage and virtualization demand (they aren’t necessarily what you think)
• Is every application a “virtual” application
• Virtualization’s impact on data center demand

You need to know why Digital Realty Trust is the “Secure Choice” as your data center partner. Watch this video to find out why.

Digital Realty Trust’s and KDC’s strategic alliance delivers a vertically integrated solution for your Build To Suit project. Digital Realty Trust provides the following benefits versus building your data center yourself:

• Better: Your facility is built by the leaders in corporate Build to Suit solutions and wholesale data centers
• Faster: Your data center will be completed in half the time required versus building it yourself
• Simpler: Digital Realty Trust and KDC offer you a “one stop shop” for your build to suit facility
• Cheaper: The lease for your facility is free from financial contingency.

In this webinar Chris Crosby, Senior Vice President at Digital Realty Trust and Michelle Bailey, Research Vice President, Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends with IDC present the results of our 2010 US market demand survey and discuss the ramifications that they will have on the data center industry. This study was conducted in January and February of this year and examines a variety of factors that characterize today’s data center market and highlights the reasons the demand for computing space remains high. Among the topics that are included in this presentation are power requirements, expansion plans, and the forces that are driving the need for more data center capacity.

Chris Crosby, Digital Realty Trust Senior Vice President, talks about the complexities a firm faces with specific Do-It-Yourself (DIY) data center projects.

Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President, Chris Crosby, talks about how firm’s with specific data center requirements now have viable alternatives to designing and building these facilities themselves.

Measuring the energy efficiency of your data center is an essential operational requirement. PUE has become the industry’s de facto standard but is surrounded by a measure of uncertainty and misinformation. In the first of a three part series, Michael Manos, Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President of Technical Services, will discuss the myths associated with PUE.