Digital Realty Trust Inc., an owner and manager of corporate datacenters and Internet gateways, said that a survey it commissioned found that more than 80% of the companies plan to expand their data centers.
The survey, conducted for Digital Realty Trust by research firm Campos Research & Analysis, asked senior decision makers who are either directly responsible for datacenters or influence significant decisions related to datacenter operations. The companies they represented had revenue of at least $1 billion and/or a size of at least 5000+ employees.
Besides finding that 5 out of 6 respondents planned to expand their data centers, the survey found:
--One third of all study participants plan to expand their datacenters within the next 12 months;
--Nearly 40% of participants are planning expansions that will occur in the next 24 months; and another 12% are planning expansions beyond the 24 month mark;
--Of the study participants who are planning datacenter expansions 75% plan to expand in two or more locations, indicating that these expansions will be complex, multi-site datacenter initiatives.
The average company surveyed has 3 to 4 major data centers, and nearly 20% operate six or more data centers, the survey found.
The majority of the participants surveyed indicted that new applications, the need for more square footage, disaster recovery initiatives, Sarbanes-Oxley/Compliance, power and cooling requirements, and network connectivity were the key factors driving data center expansion.
Chris Crosby, senior vice president of Sales and Technical Services for Digital Realty Trust, added, "The findings in this research study are noteworthy because they crystallize issues that many people in the industry have commented on, but which have not yet been quantitatively corroborated in studies we have seen. This research clearly shows that there are strong drivers for continued growth in the demand for datacenter space, with the vast majority of large companies actively planning datacenter projects this year or in the next couple of years."
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