Colocation Hosting: The Challenges of Meeting Growing Demand

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Colocation Hosting

• The Challenges of Meeting Growing Demand

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Colocation Hosting

• The Challenges of Meeting Growing Demand

• Data center operations, including colocation
  hosting changes almost on a daily basis
• Changes affect current and long-term business
• The goal is to prepare and adapt to these trends
  with focus on resource optimization and cost
  reduction
• There is a growing demand for colocation hosting
  in the data center market
• According to Nemertes Research, a shortage of
  colocation hosting space will occur in 2012 and
  will grow to 1.9 billion facilities gap by 2015
• Nemertes calls this scenario the colo crunch.
  The company concluded supply is growing, but
  demand is growing faster

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Colocation Hosting

• The Challenges of Meeting Growing Demand

• Determine Supply
• Nemertes valued the 2012 U.S. market at
  approximately 18.5 billion, they expect the
  market will grow to approximately 31.2 billion
  in 2015
• The industry analyst also determined 2011
  colocation hosting space in U.S. at 67.7 million
  square feet, by 2015 they expect square footage
  to expand by 144 million square feet

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Colocation Hosting

• The Challenges of Meeting Growing Demand

• Calculating Demand
• Nemertes measured demand by interviewing several
  hundred enterprises about planned deployments
• The challenge involves separating what percentage
  of colocation hosting a company will outsource
• Isolation demand for just colocation hosting
  becomes tricky
• About 8.75 of total enterprise data center space
  is devoted to colocation. Nemertes expects this
  percentage to increase to 14.11 by 2015
• Colocation hosting providers have an oppurtunity
  to expand their facilities to support this growth
• When selecting colocation providers, make sure to
  fully understand their growth strategies
• CyrusOne provides more than 1,000,000 square feet
  of colocated floor space
• Colocation facilities located in Houston, Dallas,
  Austin, San Antonio, Cincinnati, Chicago, London
  and Singapore

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Colocation Hosting

• The Challenges of Meeting Growing Demand

• Calculating Demand
• Services are targeted throughout a wide range of
  industries such as energy, oil and gas, medical,
  technology, finance, consumer goods and services
  and more
• Design architectures support power requirements
  exceeding 250 kilowatts per square foot.
  Facilities is designed to provide optimal
  redundancy, efficiency, security and future-proof
  reliability

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About the author

• Nicole Aguillard is marketing director for
  CyrusOne, a global enterprise colocation provider
  operating 23 highly secure data centers across
  the United States, London and Singapore. Learn
  more about Colocation Hosting by visiting
  http//www.cyrusone.com/.