Ask HN: Are there new scenarios enabled by the for officespace with datacenter?
With cloud computing availability so prevalent, are there any new use cases and/or types of companies that would benefit from being able to have convenient, easy to access Silicon Valley office space adjacent to their servers which are collocated in a medium sized Tier 3 data center that has direct access to high speed fibre and is adjacent to an Equinix data center?
For instance, are there specific applications/industries in Silicon Valley were one might need to: - Upload large amounts of data such as video to a CDN on a hourly/daily basis? - Use CAD, Animation or graphics software modeling directly on the collocated servers with additional support from cloud servers - Transfer large datasets to/from EC2 for high speed cloud computation
Equinix and other data centers typically have office space, but as I understand it's typically very expensive and not intended for long term usage.
An advanced thank you for any thoughts/ideas.
Full disclosure: I am a co-owner of a commercial building in Sunnyvale, CA with about 60,000 square feet of office space and a 12,000 square foot data center that was built by a previous tenant and would like to maximize the potential benefits of the previous tenant's significant investments and its ideal location to a new set of users.