BC NA December 2020

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THE EDGE
Evaluating the industry today, Marin
believes that on the asset front it’s still
important to have space that’s ready
to occupy and in key strategic markets.
“Over the past couple of years,
it’s been just a few buyers of data
center space picking up the majority
of it. That’s the hyperscale phenomena.
That’s going to continue.
However, we predicted last year that
enterprise business would come back
and we’re seeing that with a combination
of both cloud operations and
data centers all supporting the hybrid
platform. There’s going to be a combination
strategy there. We’re seeing the
enterprise return with more build to
suit, as well as just leasing traditional
data center sites.”
A key development for the future of
connectivity is the impending 5G roll
out. Marin is excited to see what this
will mean for The Edge. “Thanks to 5G
we’re going to see more Edge deployments,”
he says. “There have been
a number of new companies established
that are looking at data centers
from a different perspective, not as
big, scalable operations but micro
data centers that can be deployed
quickly in multiple locations bringing
compute and storage as close to the
users eyeballs as possible. We’ll see
continued investment here as 5G
implementation ramps and the move
to the Edge continues.”
DECEMBER 2020