Sean Maskell , President and General Manager at Cologix Canada , discusses the ongoing data centre revolution and how the company is remaining flexible and interconnected at the hyperscale level

T he planet is awash with information . Every day , humans generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data – reports , selfies , text messages , high definition videos , infographics – in an ( almost equally ) staggering number of ways . One of the most remarkable things about this ocean of bits and bytes is that 90 % of it was created in the past three years . Our ability to move , scan , parse and store this data is fast becoming essential for the maintenance of a functioning digital society . At the core of this is the data centre , essentially a high-tech storage facility for servers that allow vast quantities of data to be remotely processed , stored and distributed . The data centre industry , predicted to achieve annual market values of around $ 174bn per year by 2023 , according to MarketWatch , has undergone a radical evolution in the past decade , and the pace of change is showing no signs of slowing . Having worked in the data centre space since 2004 , Sean Maskell , President and General Manager of the Canadian arm of Cologix , Inc , has witnessed