Since the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic, companies have been forced to accelerate their digital transformation processes. However, they faced (and will continue to face) problems related to the security and availability of information and the scalability of the infrastructure. The new reality has transformed the data center into the focus of organizations and, today the data center is seen as the basis of the entire value chain of a digital economy. It is expected that in 2022 automation, storage and scalability will be consolidated as key requirements for the sector, without forgetting the growing concern with sustainability and environmental protection. We present below the 7 top data center trends in 2022!
Task Automation
The future will bring increasingly intelligent and automated data centers to free people from the most manual and repetitive tasks. Automating routine processes such as updates and reporting will be one of the trends for the coming year. This automation, in addition to freeing professionals for other value-added tasks, allows for the fulfillment of data center processes in accordance with implemented norms and policies.
Storage: multicloud and edge computing
Data access should be simple and dynamic so as not to complicate IT tasks. Multicloud strategies for enterprise storage will continue to dominate as this form of storage increases data mobility across multiple locations. The use of software-defined storage solutions is expected to increase. Edge computing will also play a prominent role. Edge computing is the main factor behind the growth of micro data centers. The volume of data generated is expected to increase to 175 trillion GB by 2025, which corresponds to 35000 times the estimated amount of data generated throughout history by 2003. The large amount of data generated makes centralization increasingly inefficient of processing and the tendency will be to store and process the data in the places where they are produced.
Scalability
Scalability allows a system to be able to increase its resources without sacrificing its performance. A business architecture must be scalable and designed to support modern workloads. Currently, it is almost impossible to predict the storage or equipment that a company may need in the future, so unpredictability is an ever-present factor. For this reason, having an infrastructure that allows for the addition of capacity without affecting its normal operation is the first step to guarantee full availability.
Reduce environmental impact
Regulators, control bodies and customers are increasingly demanding from data center operators a clear reduction in carbon emissions, a more efficient use of resources and a saving on the energy they consume. In 2021, leading cloud infrastructure providers and data center operators created a pact for data centers to be climate-neutral by 2030, demonstrating that this will be a trend to consider in the coming years. Maxiglobal has been investing in this area, namely through the implementation of solutions such as ModSecur Micro Data Center. This solution allows a significant reduction in energy costs, presenting the solution with a PUE – Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.30.
Faster implementation
Traditional data centers have a very long implementation period. Nowadays, everything is accelerated and organizations favor solutions that are implemented in a short period of time. In this sense, modular data centers will have a prominent place in the coming years, as they are infrastructures that are easy to implement, in addition to responding effectively to current market requirements: faster implementation, reduced investment, flexible expansion of storage capacity and high energy efficiency.
Greater attention to backup
The technological environments of organizations have become more complex, bringing with them new challenges. The complexity of the IT environment has led to greater dispersion of data, multiplying the risk of attacks. According to a Veeam report, 73 percent of organizations recognized that they had an availability gap between how quickly they can recover applications and how fast they would need to recover them. The increased adoption of the Cloud has a significant impact on modern backup.
Organizations are increasingly aware of the importance of protecting their data with backup and recovery environments, ensuring privacy and regulatory compliance. Maxiglobal developed ModSecur Smart IT Rack, a solution that can be used as the main data center for small organizations or as a disaster recovery solution, being a complete replica of the main data center. This solution guarantees maximum availability in all scenarios and is available in Racks from 24U to 47U, featuring a modular, scalable and redundant construction.
Security (increasingly) enhanced
A data center can receive physical, human and digital threats. These threats require an infrastructure properly prepared to mitigate risks. Solutions such as access control, video surveillance cameras and real-time infrastructure monitoring increase the security levels of any installation. Maxiglobal implements solutions that guarantee the physical protection of environments. Without this protection, logical security is compromised, and information becomes more vulnerable. Physical security and logical security must be treated as converging areas and not as fully independent sectors. Only with the integration of the two aspects is it possible to improve the efficiency of security. It is expected that in the next year organizations will invest more in this area.
