THE BACKGROUND Around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day, says IBM, one of the world’s leading technology and consulting corporations. That ? gure may be unfathomable to most of us, but for data centre specialists like Metronode, this type of big data is big business. Every online banking transaction, Facebook ‘Like’, YouTube video, online purchase and Instagram photo contribute to the increasing volume and detail of inf

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