#data centers

If the data center power, cooling and space problems were causing such headaches in a very depressed IT market, they will become significantly worse in an expanding market

While the demand for cloud computing-based hosting is on the rise, how profitable is it for data centers to provide it? There is interesting data to compare the cost and returns for three different hosting models: colocation, managed hosting and cloud computing. In sum, the jury is still out. But cloud computing is still some distance away before replacing other hosting models in data centers.