Welcome to The Monthly 451. I'm Martin McCarthy, and I have the pleasure of serving as CEO of The 451 Group, parent company of 451 Research, Uptime Institute and Yankee Group. I was thrilled to see many of you at our annual Uptime Institute Symposium earlier this month. Symposium offers an opportunity for attendees to exchange insights and strategies with Uptime Institute’s datacenter experts, 451 Research’s analysts and their professional peers. With Symposium behind us, we are turning our attention toward HCTS-North America, which is being held in Las Vegas on September 23-25. We will be sharing more information about HCTS-North America over the next few weeks… so stay tuned. In the meantime, 451 Research will be participating in several upcoming conferences, including MarketPlace Live, HostingCon, Bisnow Datacenter Investment Conference and Expo, and Telecom Exchange. If you plan to attend any of these events, please check out our sessions (more information below) and stop by our booth.

Martin McCarthy Chief Executive Officer

Symposium 2013 Wrap-Up

This year’s Symposium was the most content-centric, global-networking Digital Infrastructure event in the industry.  We had delegates from more than 36 countries, and our Managing Directors are clearly making an impact, with higher attendance from Russia, Brazil, The UK and Southern Asia-Pacific than ever before.

This graph shows the breakdown of delegates and their relationship with the Uptime Institute.

Uptime Institute or 451 Research clients made up 18% of the total registrations for Symposium 2013 (compared with 11% last year), and ATS/ATD were at 14% (compared with just 3% last year). The ATD Alumni meeting produced useful insights, with such an experienced group.

29% of registrants this year learned about the event via a colleague, which shows the successful 'viral reach' and perceived high value of the overall event to the attendees.

More than 50% of registrants stated that this was their first Symposium experience, and that they heard about the event via channels such as email or the website.

The one-to-one sessions requested give an indication of the audience’s current focus areas. The most requested sessions this year were:

1. Datacenter Technologies (incl. DCIM)
2. Datacenter Facility Design/Improvement
3. Multi-tenant Datacenters & Colocation

From a Digital Infrastructure perspective, Enterprise owner-operators' environments reflect information from our own research showing that their environments span not just the in-house datacenter but, increasingly, third-party services, off-site services and hybrid configurations. Here is the breakdown of their environments:

Delegate Company Profile Information
Information collected regarding company profiles reveals that 14% of attendees identified themselves as real estate owners, up from 9% last year, making up a reasonably even mix from construction industries, end-user owner-operators, real estate owners and service providers (including multi-tenant datacenter operators). The sizes of the companies (by number of employees) in attendance were also spread across the spectrum. No other datacenter industry event has this mix of companies and delegates – a true 360-degree view!

From a job-function perspective, we are seeing more IT professionals than ever before, with the percentage reaching 20% (last year, IT professionals accounted for 15% of the delegates).

With attendance from 38 US states this year (up from 32 last year) and a 50% returning delegate rate (well above the industry average of 30%), Symposium is proving that it continues to provide the knowledge-sharing and networking opportunity of the year in a forum that can be matched by no other.

451 Research Analyst News

451 Research is an analyst-based organization. We have exciting news from our Multi-Tenant Datacenter (MTDC) practice. We are pleased to welcome the following individuals to our analyst team:

Daniel Bizo has joined the firm as an analyst in 451 Research's Datacenter Technologies practice.

Christian Renaud is a Senior Analyst in 451 Research's Enterprise Networking Practice, and will cover the evolution of converged networks in this increasingly cloud-driven, mobile and software-defined industry.

As Senior Analyst for Digital Economics at 451 Research, Owen Rogers' role is to help customers understand the economics behind digital and cloud technology, so they can make informed choices when costing and pricing their own products and services, and those from their vendors, suppliers and competitors.

Katie Broderick is a Senior Analyst at 451 Research, and will be a contributing member of our Datacenter Technologies practice.

451 Research at Upcoming Conferences

451 Research will be participating in several conferences in June. If you plan to be at any of these events, we encourage you to attend our sessions and stop by our booth.

MarketPlace Live, June 6th, New York City
451 Research Analysts in attendance:

• Jim Grogan, Senior Analyst, Multi-Tenant Datacenters – Panel session: Disaster Planning & Recovery Panel Session
• Kelly Morgan, Research Manager, Multi-Tenant Datacenters – Attending
• Mike Levy, Analyst, Datacenters – Attending
• Al Sadowski, Senior Analyst, Internet Infrastructure Services – Attending

HostingCon, June 17-19, Austin, TX
451 Research Analysts in attendance:

• Michelle Bailey, Vice President, Digital Infrastructure and Datacenter Initiatives – Panel session: The Coming Hybrid Wave: Colocation and the Cloud
• Kelly Morgan, Research Manager, Multi-Tenant Datacenters – Panel session: International Expansion to Europe and Asia
• Carl Brooks – Panel Session: Monetizing Developer Hosting
• Al Sadowski, Senior Analyst, Internet Infrastructure Services – Attending
• Liam Eagle, Analyst, Internet Infrastructure Services – Attending

Bisnow Datacenter Investment Conference and Expo, June 19-20, Washington, D.C.
Analyst Attending:

• Jim Grogan, Senior Analyst, Multi-Tenant Datacenters – Speaker

Telecom Exchange, June 26, New York City
Analysts Attending:

• Mike Levy, Analyst, Datacenters – Attending
• Kelly Morgan, Research Manager, Multi-Tenant Datacenters – Attending