Data Centres – Important Aspect of IT Industry
Published on : Wednesday 01-04-2020
With the progress in technology, there will be many developments in the future of the data centre, asserts Jacob A Thomas.
In today’s digital era, data has become a vital asset of every business, and the use of the Internet has exponentially amplified over the years. From making communication faster to accessing services easily it has exposed individuals to thousands of benefits of a connected world. We are creating data every single day whenever we open a website or while buying something from the online market. The usage of smartphones and social media, the government’s emphasis on the digital economy, and the rise in technology-driven businesses have led to the rapid growth in data usage and storage, thereby increasing data centre space. As we look forward, the concept of what the data centres do and what they are tasked to accomplish will continue to evolve.
The usage of data centres has scaled up from the size of a room to the size of a commercial tower, giving room to accommodate this increased need of storage. Besides storage, data centres have been designed to cover the demands of the clientele. Modern data centres have become a crucial part of the IT infrastructure; any form of interruption in a data centre can lead to a tremendous loss for the constitution of an organisation. It is thereby imperative to deliver an end-to-end management of data centres by breaking the silos between IT and Facilities, while managing their interdependencies.
A right data centre solution is the one that helps the DC managers to get top information of their data centre on multi-faceted dashboards prompting necessary actions to resolve issues. A recent report estimates that the Indian Data Centre Market size will hit USD 1.5 billion by 2022 from USD 1.0 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 11.4 percentage. This will be majorly driven by increasing data storage demands of the IT, Telecom and BFSI sectors, and global IT giants with operations in India.
The data centre will continue to remain an essential aspect of the IT industry. With the progress in technology, we will continue to foresee many developments in the future of the data centre.
Emphasis on security
With the advancement of technology, security has become an important concern among businesses these days. As data centres are becoming smarter and more connected, the threat of data breach has grown more potent. The major concern among many data centres is that they receive inadequate monitoring of third-party people accessing the devices and the digitised operations they carry out within the premises. The data centre facilities in the future are likely to grant access to a network resource only if it fulfils specific criteria’s, including the time of the day, location, and so on.
Edge computing
The technology pushes the core processing functions to the specific location where it is often needed at the edges of the network, which builds it possible to gather and study data "on position” instead of transporting the information back to the centralised cloud for computation.
Impact of 5G technology
5G technology will bring forward more content in the marketplace. With the growing demand, the need for higher storage will be required. The data centres will turn towards Cloud and other technologies to store ample amount of information. The 5G technology will transform the industry by revamping its existing processes and infrastructure and; at the same time come up as a solution to the challenges and barriers they are facing in the present scenario.
Industry growth
With the continuous growth in the industry, it is believed that the organisations in all the sectors will consider that the money is to be made in owning data centres. Many businesses are expected to branch out in the data centre business, making the industry even more massive and competitive. We can expect the data centres to emerge in many more locations, especially in fields that receive massive amounts of information processing and business transactions.
Sustainability
The primary focal point of all the industries over the years has been repositioned to the rise of sustainability. The climate crisis has turned a substantial worry for all the people, and it is not going away by itself, so changes need to be more environment-friendly. When we talk about data centres, cooling is the most important element that uses up a great quantity of energy; therefore, changes are required to be prepared in order to cut back on power use. The government may limit data centre operations to meet the power demands of the public and other corporations until these green targets are met.
A company’s IT infrastructure cannot function reliably without suitable data centre. Due to the rising quantity of data being sent across the world, data centres need to evolve in order to keep up with networking trends.
Jacob A Thomas is CTO, Athenta Technologies, a company that deals in infrastructure management space by analysing the functional strength of various infrastructure subsystems sold in the marketplace. The analysis produced by Athenta is shared with the community to assist them to get a fuller selection. With the motto of ‘Continued Innovation’, the company endeavours to offer future-ready products and solutions that integrate with legacy and new systems as per the customer’s demands.