Enterprise Datacentre Selection – Europe 2011

Analyst report by 451 Research, published on 9/22/2011

The Enterprise Datacentre Selection Report gives readers an overview of the selection criteria used by enterprise customers in choosing a datacentre facility. This report focuses on the selection process to be used by enterprises to select outsourced datacentre services from Internet infrastructure datacentre providers in Europe, including wholesale datacentre and colocation providers, and does not include traditional IT outsourcers or system integrators such as IBM, Fujitsu or Hewlett-Packard. This report focuses on selective outsourcing of datacentre services and not full-blown traditional IT outsourcing or fully managed IT services that include datacentre services.
Pressure from the current challenging economic environment combined with the capital crunch and rapidly evolving technology allowing the provision of services on more mobile shared IT infrastructure has prompted many enterprises to embrace an outsourced datacentre business model. This model permits businesses to replace the traditional high-capex spending strategy of building datacentres with a datacentre outsourcing model that opts for a move to the opex line by leasing datacentre facilities.
This report looks at the datacentre build vs. buy decision for enterprises, redundant datacentre architecture strategies and datacentre selection criteria. The report also includes detailed Request for Information (RFI) requirements that can be turned into an RFI document for use by enterprises to evaluate and rate responses from potential datacentre providers.

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