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organisations migrate IT infrastructures to the
cloud. IT start-ups and scale-ups nowadays
start in the cloud from day one, but are
also pushing the colocation market. This
expansion is being driven to a large extent
by cloud service providers who still require a
space to host their systems – after all, even
virtual servers need a home. Businesses
that subscribe to cloud and hosting services
involving a colocation environment are
inadvertently using colocation more, even if
they might not be aware of it.
We see this as a key contributing factor
to the overall development of the global
colocation market, particularly in the short
and medium term.”
Surya Varanasi, CTO of
StorCentric, parent company
of Nexsan
“Businesses have been moving to the cloud
for primary and archive/DR storage for a
long time. In 2020, on-premises storage,
whether for active or standby, will see a
comeback – especially as customers are hit
with cloud-use bills that are dramatically
higher than originally anticipated.
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“In 2020, to be successful and provide value
to the business, enterprise IT will need to be
able to straddle the worlds of the cloud and
on-premises storage. Software solutions that
enable swift mobility between these two
domains will become increasingly critical.
“Only via this bi-model model will IT be able to
achieve the highest performance, scalability
and capabilities, as well as the safest
retention, at the most cost-effective price.”
Lindsay Notwell, SVP, 5G
Strategy and Global Carrier
Operations at Cradlepoint
“2020 will see 5G rollouts accelerate globally,
but super-fast (>1Gbps) speeds will, for the
most part, be limited to Millimeter Wave
(mmWave) deployments, which will have
limited reach and will primarily be restricted
to urban cores and specific venues, such as
sporting stadiums.
“The good news for enterprises is that
Gigabit-Class LTE is fairly ubiquitous and
provides broad reach and very respectable
speeds, often reaching into the hundreds of
megabits per second, which satisfies most
use case requirements.
“This allows companies to trial next-
generation, disruptive applications, yet still
gain the benefits that wireless (cellular)
WAN delivers, providing freedom of time
and place.” n
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