Colocation Tag

The Unexpected Rise of the (Managed) Datacenter

For the last five years, industry analysts have predicted that cloud will kill the datacenter. So why are colocation revenues continuing to climb at about 10% a year? Why did Equinix, the largest datacenter provider in the world, see revenues climb 13% YOY in the fourth quarter of 2015? The answer is that as enterprises begin to move “easy” workloads to AWS, they want to move not-ready workloads to a managed environment outside their internal data centers. Somewhat paradoxically, colocation is rising in popularity precisely because...