Managed Hosting and Colocation in 2009 and Beyond
From the Hosting Summit - Dan Golding packed a lot of future in this presentation. However the one point most people keyed on was the growth of the Data Center and managed hosting industry.
Get this there is a 15% growth demand, and we are talking worldwide, but there is only a 5% supply ramp-up and this is probably through 2012
I think some clarification is in order. This become a real-estate capital tanking problem, yes some explanation.
First 15% demand. This year, next year and several years forward we need 15% more servers, or sq./ft, or power capacity (he thinks this is a trend) than we did last year. Compounding makes this interesting.
Supply ramp up 5%. That means we are building only 5% of our needs be it servers, sq/ft or power capacity.
As we are falling short in some ways – there is a tremendous upside for growth.
Real-estate Capital tanking – You may have noticed the Lehman Bros largest bankruptcy in the US history. Bankers are strange, now all real estate is bad.
Google screwed it up. They build that 500k-sq/ft data center here and there bankers think there is an oversupply.
Obviously someone needs to increase the supply – how about you?
Bottom line – good times could be ahead if you can convince the banker.
Side note: This is just a small snippet of the presentation.
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Comment by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 17, 2008
What would happen when the demand growth has been
Comment by Anonymous on Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tom, thanks for keeping us up to speed on the stat