In the HTS Keynote, T1R Research Director Daniel Golding takes a hard look at the state of the managed hosting industry and answers a key question: How does managed hosting drive into the enterprise mainstream? Golding provides five key directions for managed service providers to embrace during the year ahead, while urging those providers to go beyond conventional hosting products and implement a series of cutting-edge solutions designed to win the hearts and minds of enterprise IT executives.

If you could ask a completely objective potential customer why they would or would not buy your services, what would you ask? That's how you should think when going into the Ultimate Customer Panel, where you will have the chance to hear T1R Research Director Daniel Golding chat with enterprise IT decision-makers about their hosting and application services requirements. That will kick off a lively discussion involving the audience, the entire T1R analysis staff and the panel regarding what it will take to move hosting into the enterprise mainstream.

Datacenters are never static places. Changes happen internally to the facilities, and externally to the engineering plant. Over the past few years, datacenters have started to strain under the load of higher-density servers. In this session, we will discuss what can be done to retrofit datacenters to handle additional load and also use energy more efficiently.

Picking up from the keynote presentation, T1R Research Director Daniel Golding sits down with three leaders in the managed hosting space to find out how they plan to win enterprise business. Verizon Business, Quality Technology Services and Interxion provide a unique mix of viewpoints: a large, established managed hosting provider; an emerging breakout provider; and a top European colocation vendor making a break into the managed hosting business.

Grid computing is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. As grids mature, they are being used to support a range of strategic activities. The sweet spot is utilities � enterprise and public. This panel will examine emerging technologies, strategies and opportunities relevant to these activities, including 'gridonomics,' virtualization, SOA, security and open source, as well as social, cultural and organizational issues.

Hosting and content delivery networks are inevitably joined at the hip because their mission is the same: providing Internet content to users. T1R Research Director Daniel Golding moderates a panel with three of the most innovative minds in content delivery, including T1R CDN analyst Jim Davis. What are the winning strategies for hosters and CDNs to work together? Is consolidation between CDNs and hosters inevitable? What are the content delivery services that will help hosting providers win business in the years ahead?

Assets have been increasingly accumulated by private equity firms in recent years, and the acquisition transactions are getting ever larger. While the hosting industry has been the target of only a few private equity transactions, this will likely expand as the overall private equity sector rises.

This panel is composed of private equity professionals who remain active in the hosting industry. They will explain how hosting stacks up versus other industries on the private-equity radar screen, analyze some of the deals that have been done and provide some thoughts on which companies in the hosting industry would be good prospects for the next private equity acquisition.

The EPA wants to mandate you to be green, the environmentalists wish you would go green, the local power utility will pay you to be green, and now your company's director of green actions insists that you be green. But there's this multi-megawatt datacenter standing in your way. Noted experts will discuss how technology, techniques and, in some cases, simple ideas can help datacenters become greener.

For two days, T1R analysts have been asking the questions and having their say. Now the tables are turned as T1R analysts Daniel Golding, Martin Levy, Phil Shih, Jim Davis and Andy Schroepfer answer attendees' questions about the future of the industry.

See and hear what marketing tools and techniques are being used today to attract new clients and retain legacy clients while maximizing the value of each customer. Key topics will include targeted messaging, digital strategies and social networking.