Flexible data centre design brings auto-adaptive infrastructure to increase efficiency and resilience

Dubai, UAE, February 22, 2015: Eaton will be highlighting the future of data centre design and infrastructure at the IDC CIO Summit 2015. The discussion will focus on ways in which the design and agility of data centre infrastructure can protect critical infrastructure and become responsive to requirements to encourage fewer points of failure and increase reliability end-to-end.

Taking place between 25 and 26 February at Atlantis, The Palm, in Dubai, Cyrille Brisson, vice president, marketing - electrical sector Europe, Middle East and Africa region, will be partaking in a roundtable on the topic. He will focus on ways of enabling resilient and efficient IT services and how infrastructure is evolving to support modern IT requirements.

"Modern IT is rapidly evolving, in ways that enable modern infrastructure to provide increased deployment speed, applications, resilience and efficiency at the same time. This is provided that infrastructure vendors understand how to adapt to IT requirements," commented Brisson. "Such understanding requires deep integration with the hypervisor and with the various converged infrastructure ecosystems, and distributed architectures".

"It is such platforms such as the IDC CIO Summit that provide the opportunity for these dialogues to take place. Challenges and opportunities can be identified for future evolvement as well as the importance infrastructure development plays in the safety and resilience of data centres for the future."

IDC data indicates that UAE businesses are expected to spend $4.63bn on IT this year, an increase of 8.3 per cent compared to 2013. This spending surge is expected to continue to 2017. As the IT market grows, so does demand for energy to power the industry. Eaton's solutions offer efficient and sustainable ways of managing data centres to their fullest capacity without compromising on energy.

Eaton is a power management company with 2014 sales of $22.6 billion. Eaton provides energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power more efficiently, safely and sustainably. Eaton has approximately 102,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries. For more information, visit www.eaton.com.

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