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By Isabel Wang, theWHIR.com
September 20, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The final day of Tier 1 Research's Hosting Transformation Summit began with Tier 1 analyst Dan Golding's keynote on what the future holds for the Internet, the data center market and content distribution networks.
Internet traffic has been growing by 5 to 6 percent monthly, said Golding, or doubling annually. As a result, 20-gigabit transit deals are now non-events, and 100-gigabit peering will become a necessity within the next 24 months. Gigabit is the new megabit, he said. On the bright side, connectivity pricing has stabilized.
The data center market is hot, in terms of both customer demand and temperature. Thanks to available capital for new construction, the space crunch should ease up by late 2007 to early 2008, but not all buyers will be equally welcome. High power density users, in particular, may continue to face de-selling.
The line between content distribution networks and hosting providers will blur. Golding recommends building CDN partnerships to maximize available options for customers who need complex media encoding support and high performance delivery of large media objects to diverse geographic locations.
Also on the agenda were presentations from Microsoft, CSC and Verizon, and panel discussions on online advertising, virtualization, CDNs and new Web hosting formats (such as SixApart's blogging platform and YouTube's video aggregation service).
Doug Erwin, CEO of ThePlanet-EV1Servers and Dean Mann, Managing Director of DH Capital were among the many attendees who praised the event - twice the size of its 2005 counterpart - for its informative content and high quality networking opportunities. Andy Schroepfer, Tier 1 Research's founder and president, says he is looking forward to repeating the conference's 100 percent growth in 2007.
Read Isabel Wang's day one coverage of the Tier 1 Research Hosting Transformation Summit.
To view photographs of the Hosting Transformation summit, click here.
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