The world is producing and consuming more data with each passing day. While we can’t really see data, they do need to ‘live’ somewhere. No, they don’t live in the clouds. They live in storage devices, servers and data centres. These are their physical manifestations. Big tech companies often own their data centres so that they have exclusive control over the data they have collected. Data is the new currency and multi-billion dollars can be made off it. Facebook is one good example. They could take advertising dollars by helping businesses target certain users based on their data. Such data are valuable and they should be held in vaults just like gold bars would. Unlike big tech, an entire data centre would be an overkill for most companies. This is where a multi-tenant data centre (MTDC) comes in. Companies can share the space in a data centre. Think shared office...