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Category Archives: Business model
Opportunities for data centre operators in 2017
Based on quarterly reports from CBRE up to the end of Q3 the major European co-location markets of London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris, 2016 has been a bumper year for data centre operators. Nothing in any of the predictions and … Continue reading
Microsoft, Oracle and the merits and pitfalls of fast following for data centre operators
The way in which Microsoft and Oracle have responded, very differently, to the challenge posed by public cloud in general and AWS in particular offers real learnings for data centre operators faced with changing market dynamics, emerging technologies and new … Continue reading
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Dealing with Darwin helps resolve Bi-Modal IT Issues
My attention was caught last week by an article in ComputerWeekly.com. It highlighted disagreements between two IT analyst heavyweights, Gartner and Forrester, about Gartner’s view on what it calls “Bi-modal IT”. If you haven’t heard of this, then in simple … Continue reading
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Gartner’s latest IaaS Magic Quadrant: more than meets the eye
When was the last time you read the whole of a Gartner Magic Quadrant report? If you are like me you will look at the picture of the Quadrant, perhaps read the blurb on one or two of the leaders … Continue reading
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Primetime for Cloud and DevOps
The quarterly reporting season is upon us again. IBM and Microsoft have already announced impressive cloud growth figures in the last week, Microsoft showing 102% quarterly growth for Azure. In a couple of days AWS will share its latest quarterly … Continue reading
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3 Post Brexit Certainties
Given the tumultuous, barely believable string of political events in the last couple of weeks, it takes a brave person to try and forecast likely economic outcomes over the next couple of years. However, among all the conflicting views, there … Continue reading
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Profits delayed: straddling the powerhouse to utility business model spectrum
Are data centres becoming the power stations of the 21st Century…just a utility into which we plug our various computing devices? Over the past year we have seen some significant mergers and acquisitions among data centre operators. Equinix bought Telecity, Digital … Continue reading
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Data Centres at the Crossroads
Other industries have been there before. Will data centres take the right direction? In the mid-1980s the industry covering the transportation of goods stood at a crossroads. The globalisation of trade, improved information and communications technology, and the existence of … Continue reading
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Moving Beyond Space and Power
Last week I caught up with Ravi Ravishankar, Global VP for Product Management and Marketing at Equinix on a flying visit he made to London. Equinix has developed a range of offers over the past couple of years, like Performance … Continue reading
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Will local data centres benefit from the move to the Edge?
It would be tempting to think that the emergence of an Edge computing paradigm would be a God-send for those European data centres located away from the key interconnectivity hubs like London, Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt. While the Internet of … Continue reading
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