“ T HE DATA CENTRE IS THE BEATING HEART OF AN ORGANISATION” — Chris Fielding CIO, Sungard Availability Services
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pricing structures. Fuelled by the need
years. What are the factors driving this
for additional space or to upgrade their
growth? Although organisations of all
facilities, many organisations are
sizes will continue to squeeze all
looking to third-party providers who
possible value out of their existing
can provide dedicated services that
investment in on-premise IT, there are
offer the tools, space and security
two main factors driving the transition
required to keep IT resilient, while also
to colocation when the time is right –
reducing running costs.
demand for high-availability services
According to Gartner, 80% of
and the shrinking IT talent pool.
enterprises will have shut down their traditional data centre by 2025. At the
THE DATA CENTRE TALENT POOL
same time, the global data centre
As the volume of data to be stored and
colocation market will grow 17% CAGR,
processed has exploded, so has the
exceeding $90bn in the next five
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