Digital infrastructures encourage growth and employment on location and have a comparable economic importance to streets, public transportation networks, and water and power supply. Data centers in particular form the basis of the digitalization of society and the economy and provide the foundations for successful metropolitan areas.
Digitalization is reshaping business models and redefining products, not just for digital companies, but also for “traditional” industries such as the automotive sector. Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX International takes us on a journey into a new interconnected digital world.
A recent representative survey of 600 marketing decision-makers shows that implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation – in force from May 25 2018 – is still a work in progress.
Demand is growing worldwide so fast that data centers can’t be built and staffed fast enough. Dr. Béla Waldhauser from KDDI Deutschland explains the challenges and provides a perspective for the future of data center operations.
Given the strategic value of data centers to digital transformation, it is important for data center operators to have a very clear view of the risks they face – ranging from DDoS to the GDPR – according to Gerd Simon, Independent Consultant and Lead Auditor for the eco Datacenter Star Audit.
