Businesses Maximize Colocation Data Center Facilities – Much like Brexit, sustainability and energy efficiency are “buzzwords” of the past few years, with mainstream global movements ensuring the ethical practices of businesses, or lack thereof, are front and center of public consciousness.
It is expected that by 2025, the ICT industry could use 20 percent of all electricity and emit up to 5.5 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, so it’s important that the industry shows it is doing more to secure the right sources of power, get that power to the right locations, and be consistently optimizing efficiency at all sites.
Now is the time to make real change with ongoing and effective solutions.
The biggest sustainability challenge for providers is in balancing power needs with the best renewable and low-carbon energy sources across their portfolios of facilities and it’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out into 2020.
The biggest challenge we face is power shortage – let alone sustainable power availability. Our sense is that the demand for sustainable power outstrips any nation’s ability to create sustainable power.
Industry consolidation and enterprise data center decision making
A new report from INAP suggests that 9 in 10 organizations will move workloads off premises by 2022, as enterprises continue to leverage colocation facilities and avail of efficient, reliable and flexible options.
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This will be a huge source of expansion and perhaps the next phase of growth in the data center industry, as companies continue to evaluate their current technology portfolios as we go into 2020 and how to best utilize developing technologies to help manage their growing datasets.
Higher networking performance, more cost-effective solutions, and less manual maintenance are also factors taken into account when enterprises consider an off-premise or hybrid approach and we expect these to remain of utmost priority for the majority of companies both in the UK and elsewhere.
Whilst no one can fully predict what’s next, one thing that’s certain is that data center operators must remain agile and flexible enough to pivot to respond to customer demands and changing needs as necessary.
From artificial intelligence and human augmentation technology to cryptocurrency and e-commerce, the persistent advance of technology in all aspects of everyday life is only set to create more data and more demand from customers, which means the need for data centers and state-of-the-art storage solutions is only set to increase.
