When it comes to data center services, today’s tough economic climate is not deterring investment. According to two recent industry surveys, businesses continue to invest in data centers despite the looming uncertainty. Businesses plan to keep pace with their investment in data center services even through economic downturns and volatility. Businesses still need to operate and attract new customers. Learn more about Data Center Services by visiting http://www.cyrusone.com/.

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 Today’s tough economic climate does not deter investment
 Recent survey’s show businesses continue to invest despite looming uncertainty
 Need to operate, attract new customers and keeping pace with investment services
 Uptime Institute and ChangeWave Research uncovered positive outlook for the data center industry

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The Uptime Institute’s Annual Sur vey
 Survey targeted data centers from 1,100 government and industry organizations
 Findings include the following:
» 80 percent have been investing in data center services and plan to continue these investments.
» Capacity demands for increased power, cooling and space are driving the ongoing investment
» During 2011, 55 percent increased their budgets for data center services
» Cloud technology continues to move forward with 50 percent of respondents using private clouds and 25 percent
relying on some form of public cloud infrastructure
» During 2011, modular deployment has doubled and nine percent of all current deployment are modular

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The ChangeWave Research Sur vey
 Survey reports similar findings to the Uptime Institute study
 Although overall economic environment is negatively impacting some areas of IT investment, certain
services show positive trends
 Cloud services are taking hold in enterprise operations
 Survey confirms increase in cloud spending during 2012 for both private and hybrid clouds
 Findings include the following:
» 32 percent indicated their companies are using public cloud
» 34 percent said they will use public cloud data center services in 6 months
» 37 percent said they expect to increase cloud data center services in next 6 months
» Survey confirm a shift in spending priorities. The increase in cloud spending expects to decrease budgets for other
IT products and services
» Trends in data center services appear to be stronger in business with over 1000 employees
 Both survey show clear results in the shift taking place among enterprises using IT resources

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CyrusOne – The Business Enabler
 Growth in data centers, show many business remain exposed to gaps in available power, cooling and
connectivity
 CyrusOne makes critical investments in assets and expertise to ensure uptime, manage regulatory
compliance, prepare for natural disasters, optimize economics and get ready for the possible
globalization of operations and mergers and acquisitions
 CyrusOne takes data center solutions one step forward to become a true business enabler for its
clients

6. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NICOLE AGUILLARD IS MARKETING DIRECTOR FOR CYRUSONE, A
GLOBAL ENTERPRISE COLOCATION PROVIDER OPERATING 23
HIGHLY SECURE DATA CENTERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES,
LONDON AND SINGAPORE. LEARN MORE ABOUT DATA CENTER
SERVICES BY VISITING HTTP://WWW.CYRUSONE.COM/.

7. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NICOLE AGUILLARD IS MARKETING DIRECTOR FOR CYRUSONE, A
GLOBAL ENTERPRISE COLOCATION PROVIDER OPERATING 23
HIGHLY SECURE DATA CENTERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES,
LONDON AND SINGAPORE. LEARN MORE ABOUT DATA CENTER
SERVICES BY VISITING HTTP://WWW.CYRUSONE.COM/.