Sustained demand fueling positive outlook for data center investment market contributing factors include expansion in cloud companies and widespread reliance on data centers.

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 use of colocation data centers by business and industry to store, manage, and exchange data has grown tremendously over the past decade and is likely to continue due to the convenience and economic advantages such facilities provide.

Gartner is predicting that enterprise data centers will soon be obsolete, and what’s to come may be surprising to many.

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 2017 September/October issue of Mission Critical is also home to our first colocation supplement.

The colocation industry started in the late 1980s and early 1990s when corporations were looking to outsource the facility side of the earliest data centers.

It’s all about the whiz-bang services, or is it?

So much data, so much of it big, and so many, many things.

The term “colocation” historically has more than one meaning. In current usage, colocation (or colo) commonly refers to a data center facility which rents space for servers and other computing hardware.