As a Research Director for 451 Research, Dan Thompson provides insight into the Multi-Tenant Datacenter (MTDC) market space. 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 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.
The Hong Kong-based colocation, interconnection and managed services provider announced its self-built Nanjing datacenter earlier this year, and subsequently acquired a facility in Singapore that was previously owned by Telstra.
The compounded impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, trade war with the US and slowing economy has severely impacted the economic outlook for China. However, the country is on track to revive its economy with at least $3 trillion worth of investments in new infrastructure over the next five years.
In the last three months since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, the company, like its peers, has had to adapt. Despite the global economy's slowdown, Opus has found a way to expand further by adding more space in one of its datacenters and additional services to its portfolio.
This report provides an overview of the competitive dynamics in the 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.
Since forming a joint venture in 2016 with Tata Communications, STT GDC has been expanding across multiple facilities, and is poised to continue its expansion plans further across the country in its efforts to keep up with the increasing demand for colocation space, as more customers turn toward India.
The company has acquired a 75-acre plot of land in Goodyear, Arizona. The provider has big plans for the market as it looks to construct a three-building campus featuring 650,000 gross square feet of space and as much as 150MW of power capacity.
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