EVENT REVIEW
Tales from the front line: Turning reference architectures into production-ready infrastructure Digital Realty and Computacenter delivered an insightful workshop on building and deploying international payments and AI infrastructure at scale. Industry experts shared experiences addressing key considerations and risks in data centre deployments, with particular focus on liquidcooled and AI infrastructure increasingly relevant to fintech organisations with substantial IT requirements. Attendees learned about the unique challenges of data centre and AI infrastructure deployment, exploring proven processes to derisk and accelerate international HPC and GPU-centric platform rollouts. The session featured real-world examples of successful infrastructure deployment across Europe, demonstrating how Digital Realty’ s global platform, delivered through PlatformDIGITAL ® and the PDx ® methodology, provides foundations for scalable, secure and interconnected environments supporting fintech innovation.
Chris Woosnam-Savage, Principle Engineer, Digital Realty
“ The best technology, whether it’ s network storage or data centre infrastructure, changes weekly”
Rick Barnes,
Data Center & Hybrid – Strategic Pursuit Specialist,
Computacenter
90 November 2025