Where to put the data?

Your garage is just not big enough to store all of the data that your company expels each year. And it's getting harder and harder for many CIOs to find a safe place to store all that information. You could try Iron Mountain, which transmits data to a secret location in Pennsylvania. Or you could try someplace more local. To meet this demand, there are several projects underway in Northern Virginia, one of the biggest data hubs in the United States, to store and protect data closer to its origin. Data-center construction accelerated this year, according to John Kraft, chief executive of Server Vault, a data center manager in Northern Virginia. For CIOs, data storage is a growing problem especially in the wake of two recent catastrophes--Sept. 11, 2001, and the Katrina hurricane which devastated parts of the South. It is estimated that there are now 15,000 to 20,000 data centers across the country. Where is yours, and do you need more space?

For more on this:
- see Washington Post article