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The most visible area of improvement in the wake of the terrorist attacks has been data backup services.
"I am already seeing early signs of an increase in demand for data center space to act as disaster recovery 'hot sites' as well as for better web hosting and data center diversity and redundancy," said Moerdler.
"Back-up data centers and off-site storage solutions are in high demand currently," agreed Alexander Muse, chief executive officer of Layer One.
Terremark Worldwide, operator of the 750,000 square foot Technology Center of the Americas in Miami, said the company signed up nine new customers for its NAP of the Americas in September and received a number of inquiries about services in the weeks following Sept. 11.
"Interest has accelerated," said Sandra Gonzalez-Levy, a senior vice president at Terremark. "I think this has brought to mind the need for redundancy and data recovery, and raised this issue to a higher priority."
That view was echoed by other carrier hotel developers.
"The technology of redundancy will certainly get more attention in the aftermath of the attack, and at all levels - enterprise communications, web hosting and carriers," said Rosemary Jensen of Peregrine Properties, which operates a carrier hotel in San Francisco.
"Post September 11, every major IT department in the world is examining business continuity issues," agreed Wanger of Sterling Capital. "This will inevitably help carriers and service providers that can offer real value in this space."

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