With new and advanced introductions of technology every year, the
cloud and data industry change as well. Hence, it is very important for
companies to stay up-to-date to get best results from this industry. Keeping
this in mind, here are a few predictions experts have made about the data
centre and could for the year 2017:
Capacity over Performance
A recent report published by Coughlin Associates and Objective
Analysis, shows flat requirements for IOPS/GB over the last year for the first
time since the study started in 2012 (Permabit, 2016). The ubiquitous
availability of inexpensive flash storage that can address the majority of
performance requirements enables the focus to shift from speed to capacity
while radically improving storage density. In 2017, the key
metric for IT purchases will shift from IOPS, to $/GB and data reduction will
be widely used to drive down costs across primary and secondary storage both on
premises and in clouds.
Public and Private Cloud Coexist
In 2010 “Hybrid Cloud”
emerged as a marketing term, which advertised the existing infrastructure
ability evolving to support more cloud applications along with new workloads
that were shifting to the public cloud. With the growth of cloud sophistication
in the following years awareness of cost and efficiency of the public cloud
changed the discussion. The success of public cloud providers quickly put
pressure on private data centers to move from the traditional methods.
According to 451 Research Market Monitor, despite the success of the public
cloud, private and hosted clouds still have a 75% hold on the cloud infrastructure
(Veeam, 2017). Since more companies have now started to adopt the “cloud first”
policy for their applications, it’s imperative that the public and private
clouds coexist. For this to be a successful endeavor, however, private data centers
will need to buy or build their own true cloud infrastructure that employ
virtualization, commodity hardware, open-source software, and data reduction
technologies much like those utilized by the public cloud providers.
The Open Software Defined Data Center
10 years ago, if an organisation were to implement a Software Defined
Data Center (SDDC), it would require them to develop it from scratch. This
could only be performed by organisations that had huge software engineering
organizations like Amazon. While a traditional IT organisation focused more on
supporting the data enter servers, switches and storage equipment as they had
in the previous decade. Today, with the availability of mature, open source
software and other vendors offering services that support such software, this
is changing. Data Center managers reap huge economic benefits from vendor
neutrality, hardware independence, and increased utilization, while still personalizing for their own unique business requirements.
In today’s day and age, technology offers endless possibilities for
organisations to provide remarkable services based on information. The idea of
data being available whenever and wherever, is now a requirement. Long gone are
the days, when downtime was considered normal for a business. In 2017, data centers will serve as a critical player for both storing information and
providing services to customers, employees and partners.
