How can colocation providers remain competitive in a world where businesses increasingly expect the ability to integrate colocated infrastructure into hybrid cloud architectures?
The answer, it turns out, varies widely from provider to provider. As we learned in a series of interviews with colo companies about their strategies for thriving in a hybrid-centric world, data center operators’ hybrid initiatives diverge quite a bit. This points to the nascency of this particular intersection between colocation and public clouds, where at this point there appear to be more questions than answers.