Today, organizations of all sizes are producing large volumes of unstructured data on a regular basis, driven by a rise in streaming applications, IoT deployments, and high-resolution video and images.

The data center sector has changed dramatically over the last decade, with hyperscale and platform providers driving the most recent building boom.

Data centers are more critical to the operation of our businesses than they have ever been in the past, and the criticality increases every day.

The top complaints users have with their colocation providers

The average data center is utilized at 56% capacity from a power perspective, according to a 2015 enterprise data center survey by 451 Research. So on average, 44% of the power that enterprises are allocated — and paying for — is unused.