The Future of Data Centres
As data centres become the established orthodoxy for managing organisational information resources, future trends and issues with them become an important consideration for information systems management.

Tasks
Identify the challenges that data centres face. What are the problems with data centres? How do data centres need to change? How can they cope with climate change, threats of energy shortages? What will the next generation of data centres look like? What new IT technology and applications will affect how data centres are managed? How can data centres adapt to the increasing demands made of them?