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Specialist magazine CONNECTIONS no. 65
Specialist magazine CONNECTIONS no. 65
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Focus<br />
Time Travel<br />
through the Data Center<br />
050.7361<br />
Take a trip to the future through your data center! You will be starting out in 2023<br />
and will see how the computer room will change over the next ten years. You are likely to<br />
meet a few surprises on the way. Read on to find out what is already on the cards today<br />
and what you need to take with you for a secure future.<br />
Aside from growing data traffic and ever<br />
faster machines: Who can even guess at<br />
what the data center will have to take care<br />
of in the future? A journey through time could<br />
provide creative support for planning the<br />
future. There will be new insights along the<br />
way. This would be a fantastic way of getting<br />
to know the needs of the market and new<br />
customer projects ahead of time.<br />
Many a migration and scaling project<br />
becomes a cost pit along the way. Plug &<br />
Play, fast-moving servers and high-speed<br />
switches are clearly not enough to master<br />
the future. The capacity offered by the IT<br />
infrastructure (non-compute layer) must be<br />
able to «breathe» in future.<br />
Megatrend of digitalization<br />
Back to the present. What can operators<br />
already expect today? Experience shows that<br />
the market does not allow data centers to take<br />
a break. Today, heavy duty is the order of the<br />
day: Cloud, edge, hybridization, «everything<br />
as a service», gaming, streaming, blockchain,<br />
5G and the AI revolution – digitalization has<br />
many drivers, some of which support or even<br />
reinforce each other. This certainly gives you<br />
a rough idea of the trip to the future.<br />
Every day, unstoppable digitalization demands<br />
new and more powerful IT equipment,<br />
shorter latencies and higher transmission<br />
rates. Over the past three years, the workload<br />
has in some cases approached the physical<br />
limit. At the same time, data centers should<br />
be resilient and available at all times without<br />
interruption, which requires expensive redundancy.<br />
In addition, they should be increasingly<br />
efficient in their production, with ever better<br />
PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) and higher<br />
ROI (Return on Investment).<br />
These laws and requirements have been in<br />
place for a long time and will accompany data<br />
centers into the future.<br />
There is a new aspect that will occupy data<br />
center providers even more intensively in<br />
the future: They urgently need to address<br />
BladeShelter containment<br />
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