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TOP Data Center Trends
2017
 INTRODUCTION 10/17/2017

2 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.
 Trend 1: Higher Power Density 10/17/2017

By 2020, U.S. data centers will require six times the electricity of
3 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 cabinets vertical rack
space.
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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 Trend 2: Security 10/17/2017

4 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 centers 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 industrys regulations.

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 Trend 3: Compliance 10/17/2017

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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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 Trend 4: Flexibility 10/17/2017

6 In todays rapidly evolving IT environment, its impossible to know the

future needs of an enterprise. An organization wont say no to new
opportunity because existing technology cant support new demand.

Therefore, its 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 10/17/2017

DCIM system offers dashboards for in-depth understanding of data

7 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 centers
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 10/17/2017

8 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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 Trends 7: The IT and Facilities Divide 10/17/2017

9 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 10/17/2017

10 In todays 24/7 business world, the ability to transmit at lightning-

fast speeds is critical. Customers expect on-demand access to
services and dont 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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 Trends 9: Availability 10/17/2017

11 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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 Trends 10: Data Center Strategy 10/17/2017

12 Todays 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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