The Credit Crunch! – The flip side of the coin for Data Centres

Inevitably margins will be tighter and this means that they won’t have the money to spend on that much needed maintenance that many are desperate for today.  

Without the maintenance, they’ll have more unplanned outages and with more unplanned outages, more customers will move away to more reliable facilities. It is a spiral of descent that no business wants to get onto.

So, credit crunch ... good news or bad? Well, for good data centres that are well maintained and can attract e-businesses into them, it is definitely good.  

For poor data centres that are already badly in need of maintenance and those that have power inclusive contracts, the credit crunch is very bad news indeed.  

After the dot com crash of 2001, 9/11 and uncertainty in the markets there was a lot of consolidation of the data centre industry. The current credit crunch will almost certainly trigger yet more. The better data centres will do well, the bad won’t!

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