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1TOP Data Center Trends

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2INTRODUCTION

• These trends provide a in depth analysis of issues and concerns faced by modern enterprise and service provider regarding datacenter investments. 

• Growth in organizations supporting Mobility, Cloud Computing, business integrated analytics, and IoT services has shifted enterprise focus towards service provider datacenters.

• As emerging technologies pushing the limits of density and power requirements. Data center facilities are undergoing tremendous change.• Wearable technology, big data and other such trends have changed the outlook of organizations towards data centers. Companies have started migrating towards leased co-location facilities and public cloud data centers.

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Trend 1: Higher Power Density• By 2020, U.S. data centers will require six times the

electricity of New York City.• Running modern power density technologies on older

models of data center requires significant capital investments.

• Lower-density data centers requires additional IT cabinets and associated infrastructure etc. This added cost is due to the inability of lower-density data centers to provide enough power on a per-cabinet basis to make total use of every cabinet’s vertical rack space.

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• Low-density data centers cabinets are built to handle only 4 to 5kW of critical power. In this era, the latest converged infrastructure, even one IT device can consume this much power.

• High-density data center, require only half space as compared with its predecessors. With latest technology and power density upgrades, fewer cabinets will be require to support same number of equipment's. It improve efficiencies and power usage effectiveness (PUE), significantly lowering capital and operational costs.

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4Trend 2: Security

• Multi-tenant & hosted data center facilities is needs greater security. As physical and network infrastructure is shared across multiple tenants can put data at risk.

• Data center’s physical security is also critical. Authorized personnel and vendors are often the source of security breaches – just think of the recent breaches at Target and Ashley Madison.

• Many colocation data centers are beefing up their physical, building infrastructure and logical security. For example, they are adding more cameras and physical security checkpoints.

• Moving to a colocation data center with strong physical security not only prevents unauthorized access but also keeps your data in compliance with your industry’s regulations.

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5Trend 3: Compliance

• Out of 10,000 data centers in USA, only 44 have a Tier III construction facility certification and only 4 are Tier IV certified.

• Always check for compliance needs and security risks while choosing a colocation provider.

• For 24/7 working customers, it has become mandatory for data centers to have Uptime Institute certification.

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6Trend 4: Flexibility

• In today’s rapidly evolving IT environment, it’s impossible to know the future needs of an enterprise. An organization won’t say no to new opportunity because existing technology can’t support new demand.

• Therefore, it’s vital to select a colocation provider who can evolve with you — without requiring you to make significant changes to your contract, IT environment, data center space, and building systems.

• Look for a provider who offers you flexibility, so you can easily scale.

• Do check if the facility is designed for a higher-density environment or if they need to make special accommodations to support a high-density equipment load.

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Trend 5: Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Systems

• DCIM system offers dashboards for in-depth understanding of data center environment for better optimization.

• Emerson Network Power and Pokemon study found that DCIM implemented data centers experience 2.5 times lesser downtime than industry average.

• IT resources are managed according to how much power a cabinet uses in addition to the overall cost of IT equipment. If Total IT spend should is higher than competitors, enterprise is at a competitive disadvantage.

• DCIM is the "stethoscope" for measuring efficiency and is critical to optimizing data center’s performance.

• DCIM allows you to be proactive in managing space and power. • An in-depth view of your IT environment can also help plan for future growth.

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Trend 6: Standardization• Project-by-project approach is being replaced by

standardized IT service catalogues by organizations. Standardization allows you to take a new approach when managing your IT infrastructure: the hybrid data center

• Hybrid data center runs IT services both on premises and in the cloud. This provide the speed needed to standardize your IT services, for quicker and low cost delivery.

• Developing a highly sophisticated, mature hybrid data center model that can support or drive business transformation. Based on business goals, hybrid data center will need to change and be adaptable.

• Standardizing IT services also makes it possible to standardize supporting infrastructure.

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9Trends 7: The IT and Facilities Divide• In many enterprises, the IT and facilities teams work

separately with little communication between them, leading to conflicts between the IT organization, the chief information officer (CIO) and the facilities vice president or director about who owns the data center. It also causes conflicts about who controls an IT project and who has the budget for it.

• The gap between IT and facilities can result in slowed service deployment, unscheduled downtime, increased expenses, inefficient equipment, lower productivity and lost revenue.

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Trends 8: Connectivity• In today’s 24/7 business world, the ability to transmit at

lightning-fast speeds is critical. Customers expect on-demand access to services and don’t want to wait for pages to load or apps to function.

• As more workloads goes onto data centers, need to get additional services from providers without huge costs or time delays arises.

•  North American businesses lose $26.5 billion each year due to IT downtime and data recovery

• When choosing a provider, make sure they can align with your data center and connectivity requirements.

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11Trends 9: Availability

• An outage can impact millions of users and cost millions of dollars, even a short period of downtime can make headlines.

• Utilization rates can never be sacrificed for availability. To meet customer demands and without putting availability at risk, at times servers have to be deployed quickly.

• Enterprises are opting for operational resiliency model to maximize their performance and gain 24/7 availability.• Operational resiliency requires IT leaders to work with other executives to implement a company-wide strategy. It considers both IT processes and business processes to help the entire company become more resilient. 

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12Trends 10: Data Center Strategy

• Today’s IT environments contain a mix of legacy, private cloud and public cloud infrastructures.

• A data center strategy that accounts for all of these infrastructures will offer you the greatest predictability. However, running systems both inside and outside of your enterprise makes your IT more complex.• The new data center strategy requires an integrated approach – along with alignment between your business and IT teams. When you align your goals, you can migrate to a hybrid data center that drives value for the business. You can also improve your agility, security and IT performance.

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