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As digital transformation of business operations and our personal lives accelerates, Data Center capacity needs to keep up. At the same time pressure is mounting to grow capacity in an environmentally responsible way. Data Center operators must mobilize plans that include energy optimization, reductions of waste, restrictions on water usage and minimized greenhouse gas emissions. A holistic plan will cover the lifecycle from Data Center design, construction and operation. We will discuss how companies can respond to the drivers of sustainability with a holistic environmental Data Center sustainability strategy including metrics to use, ways to measure, planning and designing software, sustainable hardware solutions and the portfolio of sustainability services available.

Networking continues to evolve as technology vendors embrace artificial intelligence technology and sensor data to create autonomous networks that run with minimal human intervention. Autonomous networking can configure, monitor, and maintain itself independently but that doesn’t mean IT loses control of the process. Network managers will use autonomous networking to rapidly respond to changing performance characteristics and security threats while eliminating low-value tasks.

With the promise of 5G—including higher data speeds and new services—come major challenges for operators in terms of network quality, reliability, and availability. Mission critical applications will demand a network which cannot fail, and ensuring network quality will be at the core of deployment and management. Whether it is the fiber infrastructure, the next generation fronthaul, or the new radio (NR) air interface with mmWave and complex active beam forming antennas.

The Cost Of Not Automating Network Operation Tasks: Explore the value associated with not automating manual, time-consuming and repetitive NetOps tasks. Supercharge Network Operations With Automation: Discover how network automation can simplify network troubleshooting, mapping and documentation, change management and network security threat mitigation.