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Data Center Trends to Watch for the Rest of 2023

Data centers—and the clients who rely on them—exist on the cusp of technological advances. When new technologies emerge, data centers and tech enterprises often adopt them first. With this thought in mind, here is a summary of 2023 trends. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

As AI develops, it is revolutionizing the way that major industries operate on a day-to-day basis. These AI solutions will need powerful hardware to operate efficiently. Data centers are preparing for AI to become ubiquitous in expected and unexpected ways, and are planning now to be able to support multiple high-resource AI solutions at a time. 

Interestingly, AI is playing a more prominent role in data center operations this year. AI optimization programs can identify areas in data center operations that need to be optimized so that actions can be taken to solve the problems. 

Google eliminated 40% of cooling costs by allowing AI to control its cooling systems. That’s just one example of what could be possible with facility-wide AI optimization.

Of course, there are also automation opportunities that become available with advancing AI platforms. Where once simple bots handled only the most repetitive and easily programmable tasks, now AI can add context and decision-making skills to the process. As a result, automation efforts may advance dramatically in 2023, freeing time and energy for data center teams and business owners to focus on more important, human-centric tasks. 

Виртуализация

Software virtualization enables servers to work with more than one system at a time by dividing data storage, processing power, and other elements into segments. In turn, running multiple virtual systems on one physical machine helps lower costs and keep resource usage controlled. 

Virtualization may increase as many companies and data centers fight rising costs. 

If your data center invests heavily in operating virtual systems, this could open up a new opportunity to market your data center as a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). This may attract a new tier of clients who prioritize cost-efficient operations. 

Edge Computing

The widespread adoption of 5G, IoT devices, AI programs, and other advanced technologies increases the demand for high-speed, low-latency processing. An increasing number of data center operators are setting up tiny, mostly self-sufficient data centers near large pockets of clients to provide edge computing where it’s needed most. 

Hybrid Clouds And Multi-Cloud Environments

When companies first began moving to the cloud, they were eager to “lift and shift” all their applications to the cloud to take full advantage of its benefits. However, lifting and shifting legacy applications to the cloud is costly because they have to be rewritten for the cloud. For companies that rely on legacy applications, a less expensive solution is on-premise servers. 

Many companies with legacy applications opt for a solution in the middle, between all-cloud and all-on-premise. These are in the form of hybrid or multi-cloud environments, which enable clients and data center managers to decide which applications run where. 

Expect the growing adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud environments to affect data centers in the following ways:

  • Applications will have to be updated to support hybridization and multi-cloud solutions.
  • More infrastructure will be needed to support horizontal traffic between the cloud and on-premise setups.
  • Security will need to be tightened for on-premise setups.
  • New intra-company guidelines will need to be developed to determine which applications and workloads run in the cloud and which run onsite.

Demand For Flexibility

Many businesses are taking an à la carte approach to their computing needs. 

Networking experts believe the picture of what this flexibility looks like will come into focus as future applications are developed. It’s unlikely, for example, that business owners will spend the time and money developing applications that can slide seamlessly back and forth between the cloud and an on-premise facility. What’s more probable is that new applications will be developed with either the cloud or an on-premise facility in mind, and they’ll be optimized to take advantage of one or the other. 

Forward-looking data center managers are exploring ways to capitalize on their clients’ desires for more flexibility and control.

Financial Considerations

One of the primary drawbacks of operating in the cloud is the cost. Cloud solutions initially seemed cheaper than running an on-premise data center, but this has not been the reality in some cases. 

Because cloud costs are tied to services usage, they can skyrocket when a business picks up a heavyweight customer or releases a new software product. If software development, marketing, pricing, and tier packaging are all optimized and well-aligned, the increase in revenue должен outweigh the rising costs. Many companies, however, are learning that their production process is not perfectly optimized, and some products, features, and customers cost far more than the generated revenue. 

To solve this problem, primarily cloud-based businesses will need to have their IT and finance departments track the unit economics of their applications and optimize them to control growing costs. For data centers, this means keeping cost considerations at the forefront and providing clients with opportunities to maintain control over their spending. 

Безопасность

The amount of data that exists today is beyond human comprehension. And yet, the global volume of data expands exponentially every year. If the growth rate continues at its current rate of 40%, there will be 180 zettabytes of stored data by the year 2025. To put that into perspective, that’s an 18 followed by twenty-two zeroes. That’s an astonishing amount of data. 

When a company’s data is stored in the cloud, typically the cloud provider takes responsibility for maintaining top-notch security. So much data makes this challenging; that challenge is  deepening as more data is added. 

With hybrid models, data will increasingly be split between the cloud and on-premise data centers. Security measures must protect data hosted onsite and in the cloud, but it also needs to extend to data transferred back and forth between the two. In practice, this means more robust security measures across the board, from physical security to digital security.

Data center managers are adopting new solutions, such as drones and facial or optical recognition, to protect their facilities, and implementing “zero-trust” protocols that prevent connections to the network without specific permissions. 

Jobs and Opportunities

These trends point to a single theme: growth. Though growth comes with challenges, it’s a good sign for the industry overall. Data center jobs are expected to rise by 2 percent in 2023 and by 3 percent through the end of 2025. 

Positions with the most growth include:

  • Project managers
  • Production leaders
  • Computer engineers
  • Facility engineers
  • Data center technicians
  • Electricians

Clearly, it’s an exciting time to be in the industry! 

All this growth and change means you might be due for some hardware upgrades in your facility. Don’t fret over the workload; ServerLIFT® has plenty of convenient options for moving servers and other heavy equipment around your data center safely and efficiently. Rent a data center lift или purchase one to position your data center to catch the next big wave. 

 

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