Data generating megatrends like Industry 4.0, IoT & 5G are fuelling the demand for more data centres and newer business models. Data Centres business dynamics are changing, thanks to consolidation, cost control, and multi-cloud environment. With the rising concerns about climate change, there has been a tremendous quest to design Data Centres that are energy efficient. New imperatives including AI-enabled Data Centre solutions, virtualisation, integrated Data Centre security, and simply controlled ecosystem, will drive innovation and automation across the board.
It is not only the core data centre infrastructure, that demands a new way of thinking, we have to re-imagine the entire data centre ecosystem, with a keen eye on the future. While demand-side factors will result in more and more data centres being deployed, data centre experts, across the world are now focusing on solving some pressing concerns in the data centre space. All the big and small components of data centres are being thought anew. We see newer technologies and imperatives in cooling strategies, airflow management, rack densification, data centre management, and orchestration and even in niche areas like premise security, Data Centre operations management and so on.
Moreover, Cloud-native technologies are empowering organisations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Cloud has changed the Data Centre architecture. containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable Data Centre infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach.
These techniques enable loosely coupled systems that are resilient, manageable, and observable. Combined with robust automation, they allow engineers to make high-impact changes frequently and predictably with minimal toil. Cloud-native infrastructure is key to future use cases.
This is our playing field. We are here to out-innovate the current constraints in the data centre space, while intelligently predicting the challenges of the future so that we can solve them now and continue building Data Centres that truly ThinkAhead!