Table of Contents
- Executive summary
- In a nutshell
- Key messages
- Hosting services: market segmentation
- Four segments
- What are data-centre co-location services?
- ' Retail' co-location and the hosting ecosystem
- Co-location and hosting specialists
- Telecoms and network operators
- IT outsourcers and services players
- Technical capabilities
- Market drivers
- Fostering growth
- Financial services, entertainment and media, and IT services lead the
demand for co-location space
- Increased public sector interest
- Customers get pickier in a recession
- Power and efficiency
- Compliance drives demand
- Future trends
- Market growth
- Greater demand for green
- The cloud: threat or opportunity for co-location?
- Evaluating co-location hosts
- Key considerations
- Service-level agreements
- Audits
- Power efficiency
- Network services
- Maintenance
- Customers should seek expert assistance
- Appendix
- Classification of tiers
List of Tables
- Table 1: Four tier levels
- Table 2: Typical data-centre redundancy levels
List of Figures
- Figure 1: IT hosting services ecosystem
- Figure 2: Growth in European broadband access market
- Figure 3: Modular ' pod' architecture
- Figure 4: Co-location services market: growth forecast ($ million)
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