When endusers think of the cloud it is easy to overlook the very physical backend that stores and delivers the zettabytes of applications, files, photos, and other online data evaporating to the cloud each year, yet data centers serve as the critical atmosphere keeping the cloud afloat. The cloud is simply a collection of servers and network equipment designed to work together efficiently that endusers do not see. That equipment needs to sit somewhere and it sits in data centers. In fact, Cisco’s Global Cloud Index predicts, “… 83% of all data center traffic will come from the cloud …” by 2019, reinforcing the intrinsic role data centers play in breathing life into the cloud.