A new survey reveals there is optimism surrounding the services 5G will enable and the interplay with edge computing, but concerns remain around energy usage.

90% of respondents in a 451 Research report say they will significantly increase investment in DataOps technologies this year.

An external attacker or malicious insider who is able to hijack these types of user credentials could shut down cloud environments.

70% of companies couldn’t fulfil data access and portability requests within the GDPR-specified one-month time limit.

“These organizations continue, year after year, to spend on the same security solutions that worked for them previously."

HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud delivers cloud-native operations, compliance, and financial control for AWS, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Stack.

451 Research has conducted a survey into the habits of service providers, revealing how they will need to adapt in order to stay on top.

The application container software market will grow 40% over the next few years, reaching nearly $3 billion by 2020, according to 451 Research.

"2018 is shaping up to be another big year, with providers including DODID, Global Switch and Iron Mountain slated to bring new data centers online.”

Any Equinix customer will be able to request connections to any of the more than 1,000 participants on ECX Fabric today.

It only makes sense, then, for colo’s to try to keep their own costs down, in part by using various data center efficiency technologies.

The survey had many responses, including: “Be open to change. Internal data centres aren’t going to be here forever. Be ready to move with them.”

More than 4 of 10 respondents in a recent survey said they moved applications from public cloud to colocation providers within the last 2 years.

Private cloud is expected to provide the majority of Openstack’s revenues soon, with deployments in APAC and China growing fastest.

84% of India’s data center supply is concentrated in the country’s five largest markets: Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Pune.

In addition to its almost infinite opportunities, BlackBerry asserts the Enterprise of Things (EoT) comes with a host of security risks.

Cloud computing often requires an assist from the edge because customers often need compute power closer to wherever they are.

There are big benefits in providing enhanced hosting and cloud services according to a new report, which found customers willing to pay 30% premiums.

“Our research identified several value-added services that align with colo customers’ changing needs.”

Offering services in addition to colocation adds new revenue streams and deepens the relationship.

“We have identified a critically important void in the industry."

The IoT 'data storm' is already being felt by companies, with many planning to increase storage capacity and IT infrastructure to cope.

Everything-as-a-service is the next big cloud opportunity according to 451 Research, which says there are significant opportunities for the channel.

"By 2018, 68% of companies will operate in multi-cloud environments."