A digitized data center future begins with dimming the lights. That means less people on-site, thanks to connected critical infrastructure, data center expertise, and powerful analytics. One day, robots, sensors, and self-healing systems may enable a total lights-out environment. Until then, humans will use innovative technology to reduce risk and improve efficiency in all areas.
This accelerating growth in the data center market will undoubtedly result in some significant challenges that will need to be handled carefully in order to secure a reliable and fully functioning global IT infrastructure.
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In recent years, the IoT, ever-escalating data requirements, and ongoing cloud adoption have contributed to a shift away from traditional, enterprise data center facilities. Instead, many organizations are adopting new approaches — all of which afford numerous benefits but, at the same time, create critical challenges.
While they started out like lab spaces in the ’70s, data centers evolved. By the ’90s, most had transformed into enterprise-owned, purpose-built, “island fortresses” with all data held inside.
The data center industry is experiencing unprecedented growth. There is currently 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day, and this pace is accelerating with the emergence of the IoT. By the year 2020, the IoT will comprise more than 30 billion connected devices.
Over the years, the wholesale market has catered to the enterprise user, but there are a few changes to consider when leasing to the hyperscale market.
Brian Bulkowski, CTO at Yellowbrick Data, offers his insight to the mission critical industry with these five predictions about the data center market and what it will look like in 2020.
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