How COVID Has Changed the Data Center Industry

DCF Editor Rich Miller talks with David McCall of the QTS Experience podcast about how the business impact of COVID-19 pandemic and what it has meant for the data center industry.

Today we’re featuring a conversation from the QTS Experience podcast, as I spoke with David McCall about how the business landscape has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and what that has mean for the data center industry. Topics include the acceleration of enterprise digital transformation, implications of a distributed workforce, and the global conference industry’s transition to virtual.

This is an excerpt from a larger conversation that will appear on a future QTS Experience podcast. The full 90-minute conversation is embedded below. Thanks to QTS and David for the invite!

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About the Author

Rich Miller

Rich Miller

I write about the places where the Internet lives, telling the story of data centers and the people who build them. I founded Data Center Knowledge, the data center industry's leading news site. Now I'm exploring the future of cloud computing at Data Center Frontier.
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