Data centers have come to play a vital role in most people’s daily lives. In fact, while many other commercial real estate (CRE) asset classes were negatively impacted by the global pandemic, the demand for data centers skyrocketed. Why? Because the equipment that cloud data centers power and protect made it possible for frontline workers…
Data centers consume around 1% of the global electricity supply, which means that MTDC providers face increasing pressure from their tenants to reduce their carbon footprints and work together in advancing sustainability goals. At the same time, changing tenant needs mean that they also need to support a much wider range of computing workloads, leverage…
It seems like IT leaders everywhere want the flexibility to run workloads wherever it makes the most sense; in an on-premises data center, public clouds, edge environments, and increasingly, in multi-tenant data centers (MTDCs). Whether it’s to provide an optimized user experience for remote workers, or to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies, or to meet…
As I wrote in my previous blog post, distributed IT is a fast-growing cloud consumption model. Distributed cloud closes the gap between private and public clouds, thereby delivering all the benefits of public cloud, along with location-dependent cloud use cases. As a result, both cloud operators and end users benefit. However, with the resources in…
The pressure is on for organizations across industries and geographies to develop, implement, measure, and report on the progress of their sustainability initiatives. Multi-tenant data centers (MTDCs) are no exception, which is why operators are increasingly focused on reducing carbon emissions and utilizing energy efficient cooling solutions. Calculating the Costs of Cooling Did you know…
In a distributed cloud model, network compute and storage resources run as cloud services across private and public clouds, and at the network edge managed from a single control plane. For end-users, the distributed infrastructure appears as a single cloud entity. Management, governance, and updates are the sole responsibility of the originating public cloud provider.…
According to Mike Gallagher, Senior Business Development Manager at Panduit, more and more organizations are making multi-tenant data centers (MTDCs) part of their distributed IT infrastructure. One key reason? The global pandemic. “In the early days of COVID-19, organizations had to quickly find a way to support a 100% remote workforce, and many of them…
In our last blog post we wrote about the widespread enterprise adoption of all things SaaS, and the corresponding need for interconnected services inside data centers. Interconnection services are the physical connections that enable data exchange between two or more entities — or partners — at the fastest possible speed. Given that colocation is fast…
Some industry analysts say that the colocation industry is in a state of transition that’s being driven by widespread enterprise adoption of all things SaaS, and the desire by tenants and cloud providers alike for more interconnection services. Interconnection services are the physical connections that enable data exchange between two or more entities—or partners—at the…
Colocation is big business. In fact, according to the 2021 Data Center Colocation Global Market Report, the global colocation market is forecast to reach $51B by the end of 2022. By the end of 2025, it’s predicted that as many as 80% of enterprises will have shut down their traditional data center. Today’s MTDC tenants…