UII UPDATE 4 | Q1 2019
Intelligence Update

For most, virtualization reduces data center capacity demand more than anything else

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Uptime Intelligence Staff
21 Mar 2019
4 min read

The public cloud is dampening demand for data center capacity and leading to closures, consolidation and a big rethink on data center ownership. Right? Not quite, according to the latest Uptime Intelligence research.

In enterprise and colocation data centers, we found that virtualization helps free up data center capacity more than any other technology or service, with public cloud and new server technologies coming some way behind. And despite this, participants in our research told us enterprise data center demand (especially for storage) is still rising.

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