FOCUS INDICES CONFIDENCE INDEX
Issue 6, Oct/Nov 2009
DATA CENTER INVESTMENT GROWTH REFLECTS
NEW NEEDS AND DIRECTION FOR EUROPE Positive growth projected for the next 12 months to include adjustment to priorities
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT LEVELS TO BE MAINTAINED Figure 1. Reported and projected investment activity across Europe indicates a continuing steady growth, but with a change of emphasis away from new-build towards refit and extension, migration, consolidation, relocation and outsourcing investments. This trend has been evident over the past 18 months.
Summary data on the chart has been shown for Europe for 2006 to 2010 in billions of euro and includes data from European Tier 1 markets.
GROWTH IN EUROPEAN FACILITY REQUIREMENTS TO CONTINUE Figure 2. There appears to be little falling off in the pace of the data center industry across Europe. Shown here are the intentions towards forward facility activity, as stated by data center owners and operators across both the enterprise and commercial sectors in 2008 and 2009.
The chart indicates that a majority of owners and operators are intending to expand their numbers of racks, and their average power consumption, with proportions of more than 40 per cent, intending to increase the number of facilities and their maximum power consumption.
When weighted by the current facility profile of the organisations providing these responses, this suggests a further 11 per cent of racks, an eight per cent growth in facilities, and a two-to-three per cent growth in power consumption. A comparison of projected power increase against similar data from the previous year indicates a halving in the rate of projected power increase.
REASONS FOR INVESTMENT: TOP FIVE THIS YEAR AND LAST Figure 3. Changing investment patterns demonstrate the changing pressures that are impacting on data centers around the world. A snapshot of what has prompted data center investment activity across all eight market studies in 2009 indicates a number of differences in priorities between the year to come and the year just passed.
In the previous 12 months (2008-09) the emphasis has been on catering for an increase in IT requirements, increased power into the data center, improvements to energy efficiency, and the update of cooling and replacing facilities at the end of their lifecycle.
Increasing IT capacity remains the priority from 2009 into 2010, but there are greater drives behind improving efficiency, updating cooling, cost reduction and preparation for virtualisation.
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