International consulting firm BroadGroup has announced the launch of the first regional summit for datacentres across Turkey and CIS countries.The event will take place in Istanbul 27 September 2012.

Datacentres Eurasia will include a special focus on regional and international enterprise customers of datacentres and their outsourcing needs, emerging cloud services, new technologies and market development.  Research by BroadGroup suggests that the Turkey/CIS region is undergoing rapid datacentre development through local demand, fibre deployment and outsourcing opportunities across the key metropolitan areas. Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Kazakhstan in particular have witnessed significant growth.

The programme includes a regional leadership panel, a market perspective of Eurasia, with current trends in demand in datacentre markets across the region and growth forecasts, datacentre finance and investment, colocation business models, energy availability and pricing, sustainability and efficiency in datacentres, modular datacentres, fibre connectivity and cloud
services evolution.