“Course on hyperscale”: there are almost 400 hyper-scalable data centers in the world
In April 2017, there were 320 hyper-scalable data centers in the world, and by December, their number was 390. Synergy expects the number of hyperscale-data centers to increase to 400 in the first quarter of 2018 and reach 500 in 2019.
In today's article we will talk about what is connected with the global increase in the number of hyper-scalable data centers, who and why uses them, how much it costs and what alternative solutions are there.
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According to a Synergy study, the majority of hyper-scalable data centers are located in the United States (44%), China accounts for 8%, and Japan and the United Kingdom at 6%. In Australia and Germany, there are 5% of data centers, and in Singapore, Canada, Brazil and India, they have deployed 3% of the total number of such data centers.
Synergy's research is based on data center data from 24 companies that are considered to be the leaders among cloud and Internet providers, whose machine halls comprise hundreds of thousands or millions of servers.
On average, each of the 24 companies has 16 hyper-scalable data centers. The leaders in terms of their number are Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google. The data center of these giants are located in 45 countries in different regions. These include: North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the countries of the Pacific region.
According to Cisco, the number of hyper-scalable data centers is the fastest growing in the Asia-Pacific region, but despite this, by 2020 half of the data centers of this scale will continue to be located in the United States.
According to Deloitte and Gartner, in 2016, global spending on traditional infrastructure amounted to 1045 billion dollars. However, this figure is decreasing : according to forecasts, in 2018 it will fall to $ 1005 billion.
At the same time, the demand for cloud service providers will increase, and spending on cloud solutions from 2016 to 2018 will increase from 361 to 547 billion dollars. For example, in March last year, Google announced that their spending on expanding its data center network over the past three years amounted to $ 30 billion. And Microsoft and Amazon invest $ 10 billion in data center infrastructure annually.
Global spending on public hyperscale-cloud infrastructure grew by 35% between 2015 and 2017. A September report from 451 Research predicts that by 2019, the percentage of public cloud workloads will increase from 45 to 60. According to IDC estimates, the cost of public clouds will increase from 128 (in 2017) to 266 billion dollars by 2021.
Hyperscale data centers are mainly used for the development and training of artificial intelligence, working with IoT and other areas where you need to process a large amount of data.
However, according to Linley Gwenapp, chief analyst at Linley Group, not all companies will benefit from deploying hyper-scalable data centers, since working with them requires large investments in infrastructure development. Therefore, in recent years, such a solution as a micro-data center has gained popularity.
Nick Claxson of Comtec Enterprises notes that traditional data centers lack the flexibility to meet the challenges facing the educational or financial industry, where data processing takes place on the periphery. To solve this problem, you can use small decentralized IT-stations, as they are able to provide the necessary flexibility and performance.
Micro data centers, or modular data centers, are a set of blocks necessary for assembling a DIY data center. The design and deployment of a micro-data center depends on the client's wishes: he can select the required number of racks himself and create a fully-ready data center in a month (we have already written about modular data centers here ). Such a data center is beneficial for three reasons: the equipment does not take up much space, the data center does not require special staff to deploy capacity and consumes less electricity than a traditional data center.
The technology is already being used in IoT, the retail industry (for example, to track customers in stores via Wi-Fi), video streaming, or banking. According to Research and Markets, the microCOD market will grow from $ 2 billion in 2017 to $ 8 billion by 2022. At the same time, the average annual growth rate will be 26%.
PS Several materials on the topic from the First Corporate IaaS Blog:
In today's article we will talk about what is connected with the global increase in the number of hyper-scalable data centers, who and why uses them, how much it costs and what alternative solutions are there.
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Where to put hyper-scalable data centers
According to a Synergy study, the majority of hyper-scalable data centers are located in the United States (44%), China accounts for 8%, and Japan and the United Kingdom at 6%. In Australia and Germany, there are 5% of data centers, and in Singapore, Canada, Brazil and India, they have deployed 3% of the total number of such data centers.
Synergy's research is based on data center data from 24 companies that are considered to be the leaders among cloud and Internet providers, whose machine halls comprise hundreds of thousands or millions of servers.
On average, each of the 24 companies has 16 hyper-scalable data centers. The leaders in terms of their number are Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google. The data center of these giants are located in 45 countries in different regions. These include: North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the countries of the Pacific region.
According to Cisco, the number of hyper-scalable data centers is the fastest growing in the Asia-Pacific region, but despite this, by 2020 half of the data centers of this scale will continue to be located in the United States.
How much they spend on classic and hyperscale infrastructure
According to Deloitte and Gartner, in 2016, global spending on traditional infrastructure amounted to 1045 billion dollars. However, this figure is decreasing : according to forecasts, in 2018 it will fall to $ 1005 billion.
At the same time, the demand for cloud service providers will increase, and spending on cloud solutions from 2016 to 2018 will increase from 361 to 547 billion dollars. For example, in March last year, Google announced that their spending on expanding its data center network over the past three years amounted to $ 30 billion. And Microsoft and Amazon invest $ 10 billion in data center infrastructure annually.
Global spending on public hyperscale-cloud infrastructure grew by 35% between 2015 and 2017. A September report from 451 Research predicts that by 2019, the percentage of public cloud workloads will increase from 45 to 60. According to IDC estimates, the cost of public clouds will increase from 128 (in 2017) to 266 billion dollars by 2021.
Opposite trend: microCOD
Hyperscale data centers are mainly used for the development and training of artificial intelligence, working with IoT and other areas where you need to process a large amount of data.
However, according to Linley Gwenapp, chief analyst at Linley Group, not all companies will benefit from deploying hyper-scalable data centers, since working with them requires large investments in infrastructure development. Therefore, in recent years, such a solution as a micro-data center has gained popularity.
Nick Claxson of Comtec Enterprises notes that traditional data centers lack the flexibility to meet the challenges facing the educational or financial industry, where data processing takes place on the periphery. To solve this problem, you can use small decentralized IT-stations, as they are able to provide the necessary flexibility and performance.
Micro data centers, or modular data centers, are a set of blocks necessary for assembling a DIY data center. The design and deployment of a micro-data center depends on the client's wishes: he can select the required number of racks himself and create a fully-ready data center in a month (we have already written about modular data centers here ). Such a data center is beneficial for three reasons: the equipment does not take up much space, the data center does not require special staff to deploy capacity and consumes less electricity than a traditional data center.
The technology is already being used in IoT, the retail industry (for example, to track customers in stores via Wi-Fi), video streaming, or banking. According to Research and Markets, the microCOD market will grow from $ 2 billion in 2017 to $ 8 billion by 2022. At the same time, the average annual growth rate will be 26%.
PS Several materials on the topic from the First Corporate IaaS Blog:
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