【 Weak current College 】 2010 data center 10 forecast (go)

In the beginning of 2010, the economic situation has begun to slowly get better, but with the knock-on effect is that the data center by 2010 and in previous years may be somewhat depressing nature. These lead to data center differentiation factors including: the cost of electricity of sustained growth, financial crises period during the new multi-purpose facility, lack of investment, and achieve more sustained high density deployments. Running bad data centers will become increasingly uncompetitive, operational costs are high. Further coupled with a shortage of capacity, it is clear that the cost of a data center.

Data Center fixation (layer) should define should have become less important. In 2010, it is clear that many effective alternative design can continue to provide reliable services while reducing operating and capital costs. Many updates (or relaunch) method will start to become mainstream and occupy the market share. ESG is expected in 2010 will have the following trends:

1. as with water cooling option IBMZ11-host, the market will start gradually converted to liquid cooling system. Liquid cooling efficiency advantages of excellence, (gas cooling efficient 4000 times) will promote the highest density of deployment (such as high performance computing and host) spearheaded the introduction of such thermal methods, General calculation can also be followed.

2. the traditional lead-acid battery pack and UPS (uninterruptible power supply) will give way to implement AC power protection of flywheel. For developed countries, because you want to improve the sustainability and efficiency, this trend is inevitable, especially considering that the Government for heavy metal handle properly will enhance the supervision and management.

3. additional space will become unnecessary, because most new installations of heat, electricity and data sources are provided above. Additional space has been problematic, especially in the maximum static load and scroll. In addition, from the floor below to promote air is always time to optimize the design. If from the above provision, cable and power supply are easier to maintain.

4. DC power options in IT equipment will become more common, and there are many forward-looking thinking data center product (with AC or DC power supply) to choose from. This will use the DC power supply more efficient and inherent reliability.

5.FCoE driven with the smart Exchange's Fusion edge network will reduce the demand for artificial patch configuration, and change the layout of the data center. Edge will be located at the top of the Cabinet in and. The number of cables will significantly reduce, but connectivity key performance will increase.

6. Server, storage and networking virtualization levels will continue to increase, thereby clearing the development and testing platform of the mess left by and through the application and management procedures for tight integration between gradually entered the critical production applications. Business agility (rather than the efficiency) will be in key applications change primary driver, and overcome the risk aversion of the CIO.

7. reliability will continue to migrate towards the application layer, allowing for data center infrastructure. Key prerequisites will be the high-performance network and de-duplication technology, they are able to realize the data between sites of quick migration.

8. Data Center will be moved to different locations. Because of the location close to the company headquarters and choose a data center site will no longer work, because the actual floor space and power costs will restrict the City Centre's data center is restricted to the latency-sensitive applications.

9. in many cities of the Centre region, the combined heat and power (CHP) power plant will replace the standby generator (engine), because the global lack of electricity power grid for investment, which will continue to hinder the latency-sensitive applications managed growth.

10. for host total reset data center needs will become less and less, and as a service provider's data center managed IT, mainly because enterprises migrate to cloud computing model driven.

Important facts

For the data center of investment is a long-term investment, so change seemed to take a long time to implement them. As demand continues to increase, but because of the economic downturn, the industry generally lack of investment in new capacity, so have the correct type of data center becomes less and less. Along with macroeconomic in accelerating the recovery of the long data center construction and configuration latency may increase this scarcity.

The result is likely to be:

In the mechanical and electric power levels more active use of more energy-saving alternative technologies, desperately want to control the cost of existing facilities.
Customers increasingly require applications and virtualization close integration to improve agility.
With the update to be key to retaining business, the previous data center sites become increasingly competitive, forcing its depreciation cycle faster.