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Bob Bauer
Group Vice President, Emerson
& President, Liebert Corp.
Keynote - Emerson/Liebert: Data Center Evolution
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Future generation data centers may look a lot like today's facilities when you walk inside, but the operation is likely to be a lot different. At the center of focus, the racks of servers, the density will continue to grow. Surrounding these servers will be a physical infrastructure that will operate more efficiently in many ways. The operations will have metrics that better define efficiency. In fact, efficiency will be defined in much better terms. Not because of the drive toward green initiatives, but because of the need to continue lowering costs. The increasing need to reduce IT costs will have a dramatic impact going forward. It will test the industry's ability to cope with change that could bring greater risk to availability. One area that may test many experienced managers is the degree to which automation is used in a data center. Comparing a data center operation with traditional industrial automation will provide interesting insight as to how it will benefit operations. But the consequences of automated actions that lead to unintended results are much greater for many data centers than industrial production. For this reason, automation will be a challenging issue. It will also force end users to deal with planning and design in a more thorough manner that should lead to complexity reduction. The real test may come by asking whether managers will be prepared to give up control to automated logic. The keynote presentation will discuss these ideas with a contrasting viewpoint that is intended to be thought provoking for anyone involved in design and operation of the data center.
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