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Rich Miller: Strong Data Center Demand Seen for 2010

Posted: March 06, 2010

More than a third of large corporate data center users in North America plan to expand their footprint in 2010, and many are expanding because they have run out of power, not space. Those were the key findings in survey data released Wednesday by Digital Realty Trust.

The survey of senior decision makers with responsibility for their companies’ data center strategies was conducted by Campos Research & Analysis for Digital Realty. Among the key findings:

* 83 percent of respondents are planning data center expansions in the next 12 to 24 months;
* 36 percent of respondents have definite plans to make those expansions during 2010;
* 73 percent of respondents plan to add two or more facilities as part of their data center expansions;

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Categories: Data Center,Data Center Capital Costs,Data Center Outsource Costs,Data Center Power Costs,Data Center Power Redundancy

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