The high costs associated with building a new data centre are coming at a time when more and more companies are facing running out of data centre capacity.
So said Anthony Foy, the group MD of collocation provider Interxion during a speech at DataCentre World in London last week.
He said that more than 40 percent of companies will run out of data centre space during the next 12 months, thanks in part to increasing demand from the growth of enterprise applications such as SaaS, disaster recovery, as well as the high capital costs associated with building and maintaining data centres.
He also said that 70 percent are currently without data centre service or capacity. Foy echoed the sentiments of rival Equinix about the positive impact this will have on the co-location sector.
"The credit crisis is a growth driver for collocation providers such as Interxion, as well as our competitors," he told delegates. "So far in early 209, we have seen no drop off in demand," he added, although he could offer no outlook for how the sector would look at the end of the year.
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