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• Data Foundry to add 27,000 Square Feet of White Floor Space and 4MW to its Houston 2 Data Center Campus: Data Foundry will construct a new 27,000-square-foot data hall with 4 MW of capacity as an addition to the company’s 350,000-square-foot master-planned Houston 2 data center campus in the Greenpoint district. Driven by customer demand for more capacity and Houston business growth, the project is expected to be completed and ready for customer deployments in Q4 2019. Houston 2 provides dedicated office space, lockers, showers, a washer and dryer, a break room and a kitchen, provisioning for tenants and employees who may have to remain at the data center throughout major weather events. Data Foundry’s facilities not only protect mission-critical IT infrastructure, they protect the people who run it and the customers who utilize it, ensuring business continuity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
  
• NYI Joins The Independent Data Center Alliance: New York Internet (NYI) has joined the Independent Data Center Alliance (IND-DCA), an industry-led group of single-digit data center operators with a mission of advancing the market presence of independent data center operators. By joining the alliance, NYI will leverage its core competency in delivering a comprehensive set of high-touch hybrid IT and edge solutions across cloud, colocation and bare metal to meet growing global demand for next-generation connectivity. By becoming a member of the IND-DCA, NYI aligns its capabilities and market presence to more effectively provide and promote its flexible integrated hybrid IT solutions and strategic partnerships in key markets across the U.S. Having just acquired a new facility in Chicago, the company’s expanded footprint will offer both new and existing clients additional options for disaster recovery and business continuity while providing international clients access to its substantial footprint in New York City and low-latency access to the Chicago market.

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2019 Data Center Industry Survey Results

The Uptime Institute 2019 data center survey is the largest and most comprehensive in the industry. The findings discussed in this report reveal what owners and operators around the world are thinking, doing and planning in the areas of efficiency, resiliency, workload placement, climate change, staffing, and new technology adoption.

Major themes in the 2019 survey results include:

• Industry continues to struggle in managing complexity of hybrid infrastructure
• Increase in proportion of customer outages related to network and software failures
• Still a strong dependence on privately-owned or operated enterprise data centers
• IT workloads continue to move to cloud and SaaS providers
• Enterprise data center capacity increasing, but colo and cloud capacity increasing faster
• Lack of visibility, transparency and accountability are key roadblocks to further cloud adoption
• Outages are increasingly spanning multiple data centers as users adopt hybrid infrastructure
• Industry continues to struggle with staffing, finding it hard to hire and retain qualified staff.

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Top Data Center Trends To Watch In 2019

1. Limited Construction Workforce Triggered Data Center Innovation

The lack of professional construction workers has a serious impact on the launch of data for hyperscale services and similar collocation providers. This condition is expected to continue in 2019. This is exacerbated by the fact that construction is the only sector that has not shown an optimal productivity in the last 50 years.

But behind it all, innovation will continue from year to year and will increase in 2019. Innovation has been going on for years and will increase in 2019. To meet the increasingly challenging schedule, prefabrication will be further enhanced. A cooling unit outside the data center and UPS in one box is a good start, but the industry must take the next step. To overcome the problem of lack of workforce companies need to find a way to make a working strategy that is more effective by parallel while also gathering other workers to be able to meet demand in this digital era because technology development will continue to grow rapidly in this year.

Moreover, 3D technology will also be used as a monitoring tool while helping to track the progress of projects being worked on. Robots and automated technology are also expected to have an important role in 2019 but unfortunately this has not been widely encountered at this time, maybe in the next few years this new technology will be used in general.

2. The Role of Connections Becomes More Dominant

So far connectivity has become an important factor and has a big role in the development of data centers. But in 2019 the connection role will become more dominant. With the increasing need for greater data storage capacity (hyperscale) this certainly requires faster and more stable connection support. IT Hybrid and geographically dispersed data spreads have forced companies to rely more on connections. In addition, from the consumer side it will also be urgent to accelerate the pace of connectivity that exists because the internet has become a part of their daily lives.

3. Digital Transformation Encourages Technology to Be a Source of Profit
According to a survey from Accenture, so far only 13% of companies are aware of the benefits of their digital investments. This will change in 2019, where business and IT will be aligned and interrelated. By utilizing more IT, operational efficiency can be improved, more problems solved, and users can get a better and personal experience. Increasing productivity can be an alternative to cover the gaps in the industry and there are many other reasons that make IT will be seen as a source of profit making many companies are more concerned with business profits even though in a fraudulent manner.

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