As a Principal Research Analyst for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, Dan Thompson provides insight into the multi-tenant datacenter (MTDC) market space. He currently leads the research in APAC and Latin America, while also assisting in the coverage of North America. Dan is particularly focused on MTDCs that are trying to move up the stack to offer additional services beyond colocation and connectivity. These services may include disaster recovery, security, various forms of cloud and other managed services. He also assists the 451 Research Information Security group when their interests overlap.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Dan spent 15 years as a practitioner in the IT industry, the last 10 of which were spent at a top managed/cloud service provider. Dan has worn many hats in the IT world, from systems administration to management, and was most recently an enterprise architect. In that role, Dan not only assisted in the launch of the company's security practice, but also created security-specific products, and designed security into every solution launched to the customer base.
Dan has been quoted in a number of top publications including The Wall Street Journal, as well as industry-specific publications such as CyberTrend Magazine. He is a regular speaker at client and industry events globally, and regularly appears on regional NBC affiliate stations across East Tennessee.
In addition to a good many IT industry certifications, Dan currently holds degrees in Network Security and Forensics, and Information Technology.
Despite challenges presented during the pandemic, Dallas datacenters saw year-over-year growth as existing customers expanded contracts and services and new logos came in following the expedited execution of digital transformation strategies.
This report provides an overview of the competitive dynamics in the Dallas market, a 451 Research Market Map(TM) of the competitors in the area, market share of the dominant providers, supply-demand and utilization trends, and discussion of planned multi-tenant datacenter builds.
The datacenter industry is one of the few that in many ways has been positively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand for datacenter space has remained strong, as have investment and M&A activity. We expect to see continued strong growth in the industry, even as pressure builds for providers to construct facilities ever more quickly and at lower cost, while also boosting efficiency and, ideally, powering them with renewable energy. Datacenter vendors and service providers are responding to these challenges by becoming more flexible and adopting new technical approaches, but more change and pressure will test the industry in the years ahead.
Combining 451 Research's industry-leading analysis with insights from our extensive community of mid-level and senior IT and line-of-business professionals, Voice of the Enterprise: Datacenters tracks the disruption occurring in the datacenter market and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors.
Presented 10/8/2020. Presenters: Dan Thompson, Principal Research Analyst, Datacenter Services & Infrastructure; Rahiel Nasir, Research Analyst, Datacenter Infrastructure & Services, EMEA
Following the acquisition of AT&T's datacenter portfolio, Evoque spent a year transitioning away from the existing platform. The company is heading into the next phase of development with newly added executives and a plan for an integrated services portfolio to support its enterprise clients.
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