Coronavirus Implications for Data Center Strategies
Top 10 trends for enterprise users
The coronavirus pandemic has already contracted the worldwide economy, and there is consensus among leading economists that the U.S. will fall into a recession in the third quarter of 2020. During recessions, many enterprises delay, shrink, or cancel data center expansions and hardware refreshes to shift costs from capital expenditures to operating expenses.
Many enterprise computing changes are just an acceleration of already emerging trends, like embracing public cloud and colocation services. However, the COVID-19 outbreak has shed new light on relative advantages and disadvantages of computing delivery models and practical limits to IT transformation.