Prospects for data centers
Looking through the pages on the Internet, you can often find news that another data center is being built somewhere in the world. According to a recent report by IDC (International Data Corporation - a company engaged in the analysis of the IT market, telecommunications and consumer equipment), data centers currently occupy more than 146 million square meters (ie 146 square kilometers, which is approximately one tenth of St. Petersburg). -Petersburg or almost the entire principality of Liechtenstein). Undoubtedly, we are seeing data center growth all over the world, but this will not always be the case.
According to forecasts, announced in the IDC report, the number of data centers will continue to grow until it reaches a maximum of 8.6 million by 2017, after which their decline will begin. Since data centers are becoming a strategic addition to cost reduction, rather than an office support asset, more and more companies will seek to transfer data management to service providers, abandoning their own server and service personnel.
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The first to go with the best will go to data centers of lower rank, private server and DC in the hangars, especially common in the United States. At the same time, service providers will continue their race to improve, reconstruct and acquire new data centers to meet the growing capacity requirements.
The report from IDC does not say at all that the need for capacity and space in the data center will decrease or disappear, and DC will no longer grow. Quite the contrary: they will develop and grow further, but not in the way we used to see today. Development and growth will occur around mega data centers
It is not very clear that IDC itself invests in the concept of “mega data processing centers”, but AFCOM (a subsidiary of Data Center Knowledge) believes that this is a data center with an area of at least 20,900 m2 that allows it to accommodate more than 9,000 racks.
On the graph below, you can see that by 2014-2015 more and more users are migrating from a classic (dedicated) server to a VDS or cloud, as this allows for more flexible scalability and saves users money by paying just as much resources as the project needs.
The graph shows that VDS is in the greatest demand, but even the clouds do not graze the rear ones at all.
The graph shows us that the total volume of traffic around the world per year is about 3.7 ZB (10 ^ 21) and will increase to 4.8 ZB in 2015. The clouds account for 1.1 ZB, and by 2015 it will reach 1.8 ZB.
After reviewing these simple graphs, we can conclude that the cloud segment will continue to grow and strengthen its position, but it will not be able to eradicate the traditional (dedicated) server.
According to IDC, the total area of the data center throughout the world will grow to 180 million square meters by 2018. And it will not be the traditional data centers where you can choose a hosting, VDS, cloud or dedicated server. Most likely, the choice will be reduced to a virtual machine and the cloud.
According to forecasts, announced in the IDC report, the number of data centers will continue to grow until it reaches a maximum of 8.6 million by 2017, after which their decline will begin. Since data centers are becoming a strategic addition to cost reduction, rather than an office support asset, more and more companies will seek to transfer data management to service providers, abandoning their own server and service personnel.
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The first to go with the best will go to data centers of lower rank, private server and DC in the hangars, especially common in the United States. At the same time, service providers will continue their race to improve, reconstruct and acquire new data centers to meet the growing capacity requirements.
The report from IDC does not say at all that the need for capacity and space in the data center will decrease or disappear, and DC will no longer grow. Quite the contrary: they will develop and grow further, but not in the way we used to see today. Development and growth will occur around mega data centers
It is not very clear that IDC itself invests in the concept of “mega data processing centers”, but AFCOM (a subsidiary of Data Center Knowledge) believes that this is a data center with an area of at least 20,900 m2 that allows it to accommodate more than 9,000 racks.
On the graph below, you can see that by 2014-2015 more and more users are migrating from a classic (dedicated) server to a VDS or cloud, as this allows for more flexible scalability and saves users money by paying just as much resources as the project needs.
The graph shows that VDS is in the greatest demand, but even the clouds do not graze the rear ones at all.
The graph shows us that the total volume of traffic around the world per year is about 3.7 ZB (10 ^ 21) and will increase to 4.8 ZB in 2015. The clouds account for 1.1 ZB, and by 2015 it will reach 1.8 ZB.
After reviewing these simple graphs, we can conclude that the cloud segment will continue to grow and strengthen its position, but it will not be able to eradicate the traditional (dedicated) server.
According to IDC, the total area of the data center throughout the world will grow to 180 million square meters by 2018. And it will not be the traditional data centers where you can choose a hosting, VDS, cloud or dedicated server. Most likely, the choice will be reduced to a virtual machine and the cloud.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/244295/
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