COVID-19: Keeping the Datacenter Lights on During a Crisis
- By 451 Research
- July 15, 2020
Digital services are being relied upon now more than ever for remote working tools, streaming and online entertainment, healthcare and more. This 451 Research report discusses the ‘invisible infrastructure’ responsible for powering these digital services, how datacenter providers are addressing the spikes in traffic and what they are doing to keep everything up and running during a time of crisis.
- In some European countries, internet use has been up as much as 50%
- For colocation providers, there is a growing demand for additional datacenter and networking bandwidth
- The challenge for many multi-tenant datacenter providers is to cater to temporary spikes while enabling customers to return to pre-COVID-19 use cases after the event