Re-thinking Colocation in the Age of Cloud Computing
July 1, 2014
Grazed from GreenDataCenterNews. Author: Keao Caindec.
Cloud computing has swept through the IT infrastructure industry and made it easier for companies to use servers, storage and software applications on demand and “as-a-service.” But what about the data center colocation industry? It has changed very little over the last eight years and remains as inflexible as ever with multi-year term agreements and big minimum space requirements.
Businesses want more flexibility to run temporary workloads, build private clouds and have a less risky path to migrating applications to a hybrid public-private cloud model. What can be done to make colocation easier and more “cloud-like?”…
The future of cloud computing
Gartner has predicted that “this is the end of the beginning phase of cloud computing.” While this may be true for large enterprises and startup tech companies, the vast majority of applications still run on IT infrastructure dedicated to a single company and are housed either on premises or within a third-party colocation facility. In 2014, public cloud IaaS will be just one-third of 1 percent of the overall worldwide IT spending, according to Gartner…
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