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Survey: Enterprise Data Centers Fail More Often Than Colos

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The Uptime Institute finds that availability is the number-one data center provider selection criterion. More than 20 percent of respondents to a recent survey said they had an outage with their colocation provider over a recent 12-month period. colocation Downtime'

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What Will The Data Center of 2025 Look Like?

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What will the data center look like in 2025? An Emerson survey suggests we''ll see smaller data centers, higher densities, and more use of renewable energy. Featured'

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Survey: On-Prem Data Centers Lowest Investment Priority for IT Shops

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Surprise, surprise: Public cloud sucking money away from in-house enterprise data centers Read More.

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Colos Spend More on Data Centers as Enterprises Tighten Purse Strings

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Uptime survey: Colo spending grows, as enterprise spending shrinks, but do not expect enterprises to shift compute capacity to colos or cloud quickly. colocation Data Center Strategies Enterprise'

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Survey: IT Concern With Green Data Centers Marginal

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Green data center firm finds customers care more about efficiency than carbon footprint of service providers Read More. colocation Green Data Centers Power'

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Jan. 11

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The Week in Review: Wholesale data center leasing up 25 percent in 2013, Schneider Electric acquires AST Modular, survey sees NSA chilling effort for U.S. providers, an overview of the hypervisor market for 2014. Featured'

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Survey: IT Workers Not Confident in Federal Data Center Reliability

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MeriTalk survey finds less than 20 percent of government IT workers are confident in their ability to deliver on SLAs. Downtime Government'

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