“In North America alone, the data center market has achieved more than 15-20 percent compound annual growth rate over the past five years – even in this challenging economy – due to a significant increase in Internet traffic, the continued drive towards a digital economy, and enterprises looking for non-capital intensive data center solutions for disaster recovery/business continuity. Our future is definitely bright.”

– Brian Lillie, CIO for Equinix, Inc.

Are You Ready to Ride the Four Tsunamis About to Hit your Data Center?
Brian Lillie, CIO, Equinix, Inc.

With the convergence of networking and cloud computing and with dramatic increases in content and mobile applications all hitting us at the same time, four major business tsunamis are heading our way. Given the constraints of your current data center strategies for growth, reliability, security and sustainability, and without derailing those priorities, how are you planning for these uncharted waves?

Global Internet traffic alone is expected to continue growing 38 percent annually through 2013, while the global mobile data growth rate is predicted at 128 percent. This at the same time that global cloud services revenue is already growing 26.5 percent and likely to continue growing exponentially in the next several years. Add in the tremendous increase in the U.S. financial services trading volume – with more than a 200 percent growth in thousands of peak messages per second during 2009, and it is easy to realize that the tsunamis are fast approaching.

These huge waves offer unprecedented opportunities if data centers begin providing a business platform that optimizes their customers’ needs by providing more network choice, flexibility, agility and speed worldwide. How do you align your business with your company’s ecosystems? The key to riding these big waves is to align your business strategies with your customers’ and to deploy solutions that they need: multi-source access to global networks, virtualized IT infrastructure, consolidated applications on the edge, and disaster recovery/business continuity aligned to today’s sophisticated cyber terrorism threats.

 

About Brian Lillie
Brian Lillie served as vice president of information systems at Verisign, before joining Equinix in 2008. Prior to that, Silicon Graphics he was senior director of enterprise application services at Silicon Graphics where he successfully implemented Oracle ERP and built out IT infrastructure. He held several leadership roles in the U.S. Air Force in space R&D, satellite operations, and military computers and communications.
Mr. Lillie holds an M.S. in management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and an M.S. in telecommunications management from Golden Gate University.