DCN September 2017 | Page 21

Colocation & Outsourcing This exciting initiative provides a borehole into some of the key data issues that could come to be defining factors for VR. For example, imagine if an artist of the stature of, say, Taylor Swift chooses to exclusively live stream a concert in VR on the new channel. This not only requires robust infrastructure to be in place to cope with the sheer volumes of data implicated in transmitting this immersive performance all over the world, but also involves the data centres where this data is ultimately stored and proces