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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

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.

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.

In this webinar, Michael Manos will present the various modular alternatives that are available to today’s data center customers and the strengths and weaknesses of each. This presentation will also help provide attendees with a clear understanding of the potential uses for each modular approach and which data center requirements each is best designed to address.

Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President, Chris Crosby, presents the results of our 2009 market demand survey. 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 will be included in this presentation are power requirements, expansion plans, and the forces that are driving the need for more data center capacity.

Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President, Chris Crosby, articulates alternatives available to you in designing and constructing your new data center facility. This webinar defines the tasks that are associated with acquiring, designing and constructing a data center facility and the issues associated with each of them. It addresses the degree of risk inherent in each of these options to help assist you in choosing the alternative that best addresses your corporate needs.

Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President, Chris Crosby, provides perspectives that incorporate aspects from financing and Total Cost of Ownership to the most efficient methodology to identify and obtain space under increasingly more stringent time constraints.

Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President, Chris Crosby, discusses the difficulties surrounding kW of IT load and chargeback systems.