With the rise in cloud migration, the colocation data center is no longer the destination for IT but rather part of a global logistical fabric for service delivery. As such, sale-leaseback transactions are growing in strategic importance to the modern-day owners of enterprise data centers keen to offset the expensive, non-strategic real estate and venture into a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model for computing infrastructure. There are however limitations to moving from identifying as a owner-operator to that of a tenant.

Our presenters will chime in on dynamism of the sale-leaseback landscape, hone in on whether there are still advantages to enterprise operators owning a facility outright and how colocation providers can best capitalize from the financial transaction.