The data center market is still cautious as far as Cloud adoption goes. While security issues, regulation and legal responsibilities have dampened the appeal of the public cloud, variants of the private cloud remain attractive.
While much of the tech world reacted to the death of Steve Jobs, the facility-dominated audience at DatacenterDynamics seemed hardly to notice, even though Jobs changed IT in a way that will ripple through the data center industry for years to come.
After an extensive West Coast selection process, Marvell has chosen Benaroya’s South Hill Data Center to meet its future active computing and disaster recovery requirements.
Concerns about supply are lower in more developed data center markets, which are adapted to an environment of rising energy costs, local distribution problems, and the prospect of usage regulation.
Though the inner workings of the global communications network are so complex that they remain opaque even to those who operate it, the redundancy and fail-over capabilities of the system have made it so reliable that the internet-based cloud has become a trusted place to store and transmit critical data.