FRED HO , TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AT K2 CRITICAL DELIVERY AND COLIN KELLY , COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR AT K2 DATA CENTRES DISCUSS HOW THE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANY IS BUILDING FOR THE LONG TERM IN THE FAST PACED WORLD OF DATA CENTRE OPERATIONS
K2 DATA CENTRES
FRED HO , TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AT K2 CRITICAL DELIVERY AND COLIN KELLY , COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR AT K2 DATA CENTRES DISCUSS HOW THE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANY IS BUILDING FOR THE LONG TERM IN THE FAST PACED WORLD OF DATA CENTRE OPERATIONS
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T he future of business lies in the cloud . As the increasingly rapid progression of Industry 4.0 creates higher demand for data and data centres , through increased cloud migration , internet of things ( IoT ) expansion and the explosion of business analytics , the demand for digital infrastructure is in danger of outstripping global supply . With studies predicting that 83 % of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020 , and the feverish growth showing no signs of slowing , the data centre market has never held so much promise , or been so demanding .
The major obstacle faced by data centre operators lies in the fact that , on average , the effective lifecycle of cloud infrastructure lasts less than two years . Every 6-18 months , server rooms need to be torn out to make way for the latest generation of
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