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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

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• Click to play or Right-Click | Save As to download: Virtualization, Part One

No one builds data centers faster than Digital Realty Trust. Learn about how this capability helped a Wall Street survivor.

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Developing the requirements for a data center are the end product of a firm’s power usage. See how one company’s understanding of power measurement helped them get the facility that they needed.

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

Sep. 14, 2009 – Digital Realty Trust holds a global, live “Chiller Side Chat” with Michael Manos that consisted of an open Q&A session moderated by Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge