1. 2016 - The year of modular There has been a great deal of talk about modular data centres, yet relatively low adoption. That will change in 2016 with a substantially higher rate of adoption due to new concepts on the market. Most people relate modular data centres to shipping containers. Modular no longer has [...]
It’s a good time to be an IT professional, especially a data centre professional. Today’s digital world is fueled by new technologies, enabled by the introduction of architectural changes, where skills like software development and IT management have become deeply intertwined. Consequently, technology providers are creating ever more sophisticated and advanced solutions to satisfy the [...]
Most data centres will be able to reduce physical space by at least 30% in the next five years, one of several emerging data centre trends through 2020. Increased density, virtualization, moves to colocation facilities and cloud computing are all impacting operations inside the data centre, according to Henrique Cecci, a research director at Gartner [...]
