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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.

Britain’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) will substantially impact the UK’s data center industry. In this interview Jim Smith, Digital Realty Trust’s Chief Technology Officer, provides an in-depth assessment of the impact and disparities in this controversial new legislation.

Chris Crosby, Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, helps with understanding the total cost of ownership calculation associated with any major data canter purchase.

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.

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.

A complete Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for any data centre build is imperative, particularly when considering a Turn-Key versus Build-to-Suit or “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) option. Calculating the TCO is a difficult task considering the number of components that go into any data centre build, understanding your internal cost metrics and how financial decisions are made within your executive team, and long depreciation cycles, among others.

So in this recording of Jim Smith, CTO for Digital Realty Trust presenting at the Gartner Datacentre Summit 2009 in London, we highlight the list of items to include in your TCO analysis of in sourcing versus outsourcing your next data centre build.