THE EDGE
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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