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.
While AI has been around in one form or another for many years, ChatGPT and the other generative AI services sparked greater interest in the technology, which seems to be fueling new growth along the entire supporting infrastructure chain.
The company is priming the southeastern US as a landing place for hyperscaler expansion. DC BLOX has completed a subsea cable landing station in Myrtle Beach, SC, with Meta and Google as tenants. It has also acquired a dark fiber route connecting Myrtle Beach to the connectivity hubs of Atlanta.
In a surprise move, a total of 80 MW has been provisionally awarded to this coterie of operators and hyperscalers, exceeding what had previously been announced as a 60-MW cap when the application process was first announced at the beginning of 2022.
451 Research has released a new Technology & Business Insight report, Japan: Leased Datacenter Market, which examines the overall size, scope and growth of the multi-tenant datacenter markets in Japan. It is a follow-up to our 2018 report on Japan, a major datacenter hub in Asia-Pacific.
The implications of workload mobility and hybrid IT infrastructure continue to play out in our survey data. In 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise: Datacenters, Workload Migration 2023, we seek to understand the size and scope of moves and the reasoning behind them.
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