In NYC, it’s all about scale, and this year’s DCD>Enterprise Conference - scheduled for March 14/15 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square - certainly lives up to that: 37% of the 1,150 enterprise end-user/operator delegates tell us their organizations have IT budgets exceeding $100m – hardly surprising when you see the calibre of assembled company.

What unifies them – whatever the industry sector – is that the overwhelming majority of these companies still own and operate on-premises data centers, despite the growth in colocation facilities; 76% indicate they still retain ownership of more than half of their data center footprint.

“Double the number of enterprise operators, year-over-year, say they’re actively seeking to outsource to colo and cloud services,” says DCD, CEO George Rockett.  “Couple that with a marked rise in the number of companies working on data center modernization and upgrade projects, rather than new builds, and the trend is clear. Enterprise operators are sweating existing assets while reaping the benefits of hybrid IT and capacity on demand, particularly for new internet-facing, cloud-first class of compute workloads.”

Transformation is a Team Sport

“The full-stack ecosystem of digital infrastructure requires new, agile approaches to planning and deploying IT services and capacity,” says Bruce Taylor, DCD conference chair, “It encourages teams to cross over the siloed walls between IT and M&E facilities infrastructure and operations (OT). It is striking how these delegate groups have grown among some of the largest enterprises.”

The following are some of the top, large-scale, iconic brand enterprises fielding full teams to the conference of five to 25-plus business leaders and technical professionals.

AIG, AT&T, Amazon, Bank of America, BNYMellon, Barclays Bank, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CBRE, CenturyLink, Charter communications, China Telecom Americas, Cigna, CitiGroup, Comcast, Credit Suisse, Cushman & Wakefield, Dupont Fabros, Digital Realty/Telx, Equinix, Etix Everywhere, Express Scripts, Facebook, Fluor, GE, Geisinger Health, Goldman Sachs, Google, Holder Construction, IBM, Jones Lang LaSalle, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, LinkedIn, Merck & Co., Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Munters, NASDAQ, NBC Universal, New York University, New York City, Prudential, QTS, Royal Bank of Canada, Robert Director, State Street Bank, Switch Data Centers, Syska Hennessy, TD Bank, Time-Warner HBO, Whiting-Turner, Tishman, Turner Construction, UBS, UPS, Verizon, Wells Fargo, zColo.

The last few places remain for enterprise data center end-users and operators to attend. Click here to register.