The European data centre market continues to grow at a steady pace. In order to understand what trends and driving factors are impacting the market, Digital Realty Trust conducts an annual survey of senior executives from enterprise sized companies (€650M/£600M+ or more in revenues and/or 2,000 total employees) to capture their perspectives on the industry.
The United States’ market for colocation and hosting is growing rapidly. In order to understand what trends and driving factors are impacting the market, Digital Realty Trust conducted a survey, in conjunction with The WHIR magazine, of senior executives of colo and hosting companies across the country. This paper provides an overview of the study’s major findings.
The United States’ data center market continues to grow at a steady pace. In order to understand what trends and driving factors are impacting the market, Digital Realty Trust conducts an annual survey of senior executives from enterprise sized companies ($1B or more in revenues and/or 5,000 total employees) to capture their perspectives on the industry. In the recently completed 2011 survey, 300 of these corporate leaders we surveyed on a variety of issues ranging from the use of PUE to their expansion plans for the coming months. This paper provides an overivew of the study’s major findings.
Virtualization is a major contributor to the rise of cloud computing. This paper examines the present and future state of cloud computing including implementation considerations and answering the question of whether every application is suitable for being “cloud delivered”. It will also look at how both technologies will impact data center demand and operations in the coming years.
New technologies continue to emerge to facilitate new capabilities and applications that are driving increased data center growth. As it grows in popularity some industry pundits have taken the position that virtualization will have a negative impact on the data center market. In this new white paper from Digital Realty Trust you’ll see why virtualization software is actually a powerful complementary tool that can increase the efficiency of your existing and future data centers. The paper also explores the different modes of virtualization and how they are used by users just like you to support the seemingly never ending new applications that your facilities need to support.
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