Will your provider meet your needs in a year?
May 17, 2007 by Will Charnock, Technology in Tech Stuff
I ran across an interesting article today that highlights an important question that any individual should ask themselves before selecting a hosting provider: “Can I grow my business with this company?”
Quoting the article:
Forty-three percent of data centers are running out of physical space and power density in racks is at an all time high, a survey by the Aperture Research Institute shows.
The survey of over 100 enterprise data managers, representing over 600 data centers, covered a spectrum of company sizes and industries, including banking, insurance, healthcare, data services, retail and telecommunications.
Nearly 90 percent of those surveyed indicated that 75 percent or more of the space in their data centers was already allocated to IT equipment. More than 43 percent of respondents reported that 90 percent or more of their data centers were in use, which may suggest that future needs are being planned with the rapid growth in processing and storage across all industries.
Additionally, the study reveals that power consumption is at an all-time high and power density is one of the biggest concerns out there.
This should come as no surprise to most people in the industry. The data center capacity glut that existed just a few years ago has totally disappeared, with companies like Digital Realty Trust snapping up just about every property worth owning. Once again we’re seeing significant investments in new data center builds. These are not the data centers of yesteryear. These have two or three times the power and cooling capacity of data centers built just 4 - 5 years ago. Building these data centers requires huge amounts of capital – which many in the hosting industry simply do not have.
Did you know that Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build new data centers simply to house their own IT infrastructure? The reason behind this is because supply is low, demand is high – and they need to be able to control their costs. The only way to do this is to own and operate your own facilities.
So whether you’re purchasing your first dedicated server and shopping for the best deal or purchasing your 100th dedicated server and looking for the next hot server technology, it’s important to ask your provider if they’re going to have the capacity to meet your needs as your business continues to grow. Failing to do so will either result in your ability to grow being limited, or having to plan a possibly painful migration later down the road.
Read the entire article here:
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20070501PR206.html
- Will
May 18th, 2007 at 12:53 am
Three posts, three thinly veiled press releases.
This isn’t a blog, it’s just another PR mouthpiece.
Come on, ThePlanet! What’s the point of a blog if all you do is throw PR at us?
You should look at Dell’s corporate blog, Direct2Dell, for an idea of what a corporate blog should look like. Instead of every post promoting their business and talking about how wonderful they are, they use blog posts to deal with issues users are having, give information, and inform users.
So far, this blog does none of this.