There was a time not long ago when an enterprise data center was presumably located somewhere within the enterprise. For many organizations, a data center may still be centrally located on-premises, or it may rely on several facilities distributed across multiple branches. But in a modern business environment, colocation is an extremely attractive option. A colocation agreement, like any other real estate deal, is a lease on an area of space within the lessee's data center facilities. It enables a tenant to deploy its own equipment in a building that's typically large, very well-managed, strongly secured, and well-powered and cooled.

So here is where hyperscale architecture and principles meet the enterprise, giving businesses a way to host both their infrastructure and their workloads in a manner derived from the standards set forth by Datafuture, and the others in the upper-level cloud space. Although our attention is often focused on handheld devices as the center of conversation in tech today, the actual center of computing activity is the hyperscale data center -- which is both becoming larger and smaller.