Cloud Computing Drives Increasing Capacities in United Kingdom Data Centers

By: Joe Diamond | Posted: 2010-01-08

In an interesting survey conducted by United Kingdom-based Telehouse, 31 percent of respondents indicated that cloud computing is driving an increased use of data center capacity. With Gartner forecasting that the cloud computing market could reach a global value of $150 billion by 2013, Telehouse found that more than 80 percent of respondents predicted that their data center requirements will continue to grow in the coming years.

As legal requirements in the United Kingdom (and the United States alike) continue to expand, so does the amount of data businesses are required to retain for electronic discovery and potential litigation. In addition, according to a study by leading market intelligence firm IDC, email and electronic documents are a primary factor for the increase in the amount of data stored on servers - which happens to be located within data centers.

Michelle Reid, director of sales and marketing for Telehouse, comments:

"The results of our survey indicate that demand for data centre capacity will continue to increase over the next five years, fuelled by SaaS and cloud computing, but we should not underestimate the future impact of governance and the pressure it will put on capacity, too."

We couldn't agree more. As our lives become ever more digital both professionally and personally, our reliance on data centers is only going to increase and it's inevitable that data stores will continue to grow with it. We're watching this trend evolve first hand as more organizations move away from on-premise email archiving solutions in order to take advantage of our hosted archiving's unlimited storage and retention.