[October 06, 2014]

Research and Markets: Online Gambling and Colocation Insights Report 2014

DUBLIN --(Business Wire)--

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/mhbm6m/online_gambling) has announced the addition of the "Online Gambling and Colocation" report to their offering.

DCD Intelligence (DCDi) expects that the demand for colocation space and services by online gambling operators will continue to grow to support increasing numbers of players. The increase will be driven as more markets legalize, more people reach the legal gambling age, and more mobile devices enable people to play online from anywhere and at any time.

However, we expect that growth will be steady rather than a big leap forwards because such factors will result in the substitution of players from offshore to legalized markets, from land-based to online options, and from fixed to mobil devices. Demand will also be tempered as operators use technologies such as virtualization and flashbased storage to reduce their space and power requirements, even as the number of players and the amount of data collected from them grow.

More so than in many industries, regulatory requirements influence where online gambling operators can locate their equipment, and they are also constrained by data protection laws. While online gambling operators will move into new colocation markets as certain jurisdictions open up, we also expect they will move equipment and functionality between jurisdictions to reduce complexity and cost. The operators are likely to move front-end functionality to cheaper data center locations, including eventually the cloud, and make the best use of the equipment they are legally required to site in certain markets.

Most markets that have regulated or are looking to legalize the online gambling sector already have mature colocation industries where operators routinely build capacity as demand dictates. We do not believe, therefore, that online gambling operators will be in danger of running into constraint issues in order to service a particular market, nor that operators will have to scramble to meet a sudden surge in demand.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Executive summary

2. Definitions and parameters

3. A brief history of online gambling

4. Market size and potential

5. The pros and cons of legalized online gambling

6. Regulation

7. Technology and online gambling

8. Colocation needs

9. Contributors

10. Methodology

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/mhbm6m/online_gambling

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