EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

this month ’ s series : March 2010

A growing pool of processing power
and storage capacity
According to British consultancy Data Centers: The latest telco
BroadGroup, there are at least 200
commercially run data centers in
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
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Mexico, Panama and Peru, as well
as an unknown number of privately-
run facilities run by individual
enterprises. In recent months HP, VMware, EMC, Cisco At the same time, corporate and
and NetApp have announced various residential users alike are exchanging
Virtualization prevalent in two years solution packages that will make it easier ever greater amounts of data and content,
Telcos and IT outsourcers are in for telcos to offer a greater variety of with voracious demand for storage
a privileged position as perhaps services, including whole new platforms capacity and bandwidth.
the sole sales representatives of for running the data centers that will host
the virtual computing model, since those services. In this report BNamericas considers the
Latin American PC vendors are
interplay between telcos and data center
still preoccupied with selling full,
In this age of Green IT and cutting costs, specialists, as well as the potential that
traditional PCs.
there is increasing hype surrounding the this kind of infrastructure engenders for
X as a Service (XaaS) business model and new services.
Case study: Telecom Argentina
sharing or centralizing resources through
Telecom has 7,000 square meters of
data center space distributed across cloud computing.
four sites, as well as an IP Backbone
that allows direct connectivity with Corporate services as percentage of fixed line revenue (2006-2009)
98% of Argentina’s internet users.
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