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.
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.
Dallas-based DataBank is acquiring 44 of the zColo datacenters in the US and Europe from Zayo Group Holdings, including 13 key interconnect locations. The acquisition supports DataBank's push in its current markets to acquire critical interconnection datacenters as a means of expansion.
The Pan-Asian datacenter provider has established a growth strategy within the region that has it in three different countries in the three years it has been in operation. PDG's plan is to target the hyperscale segment, balanced by the enterprise segment and other customers that it obtains through company and facility acquisitions.
Amid expansion, executive changes and new builds " not to mention a global pandemic " DataBank continues to see demand and grow its portfolio. Notably, the provider has largely chosen to operate in secondary markets, where competition isn't as stiff, giving itself some elbow room.
The Voice of the Enterprise: Datacenters survey was conducted between May 14 and July 7, 2020. The survey represents approximately 775 completed questionnaires about datacenter and colocation usage from pre-qualified IT decision-makers primarily based in North America. This survey focuses on datacenter and colocation projects now and in the next two years, as well as density trends and criteria for selecting datacenter locations and/or colocation facilities.
The Voice of the Enterprise: Datacenters survey was conducted between May 14 and July 7, 2020. The survey represents approximately 775 completed questionnaires about datacenter and colocation usage from pre-qualified IT decision-makers primarily based in North America. This survey focuses on datacenter and colocation projects now and in the next two years, as well as density trends and criteria for selecting datacenter locations and/or colocation facilities.
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