Today the organizations that have managed to adapt to the changes of digitization have to continue to grow technologically, they must maintain constant innovation in order to persevere in business, so the challenges for these survivors are now greater, even after a pandemic that It is not over.
The data center transformation market was valued at $7.47 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $15.45 billion by 2026, according to a report by Mordor Intelligence. Data centers for organizations have the function of storing and safeguarding the IT infrastructure of companies in order to provide availability at all times, which can provide businesses with a viable alternative and a significant competitive advantage.
In the opinion of Santiago Suinaga, director of KIO Data Center Services, “challenges must be faced and transformations must be assumed in all industries, specifically for Data Centers, providers are focusing on increasing general efficiency, reducing operating cost and guaranteeing business continuity”.
Without the use of the appropriate technology or the necessary facilities to survive, it is very difficult for companies to move towards a true digital age. For this reason, Suinaga lists some trends and challenges that he considers corporations will have to face in order to efficiently adapt to the transformation of Data Centers:
1. Automation: Data center automation is expected to reach $19 billion by 2026, up from just $7 billion in 2020, according to a Mordor Intelligence report. This technology is a very big challenge for all types of industry, operations, supply chain, the Retail sector as well as government institutions, with remote work and the strong need to create automated systems to execute repetitive and remote tasks, are a fundamental part for the survival of an organization.
2. Information storage security: Keeping information available and accessible at any time plays a crucial role in business. The challenge is to be able to keep information secure and legible at the disposal of customers who live in a Data Center. That is why it is important that the partner is trustworthy and has the best services, tools and measures to protect data wherever it is.
3. Scalability: Data Centers must be scalable, that is, they must be able to adapt and respond with respect to performance as
They significantly increase the number of users, this in order to cover the demand of the clients who stay there. The architecture of the data centers as well as the IT solutions must always be conditioned to meet this scalability, even more so now with the growing demand for connectivity to the clouds, where more and more clients need to reach these large groups in order to be able to interconnect. with the services they provide.
4. Connectivity to large clouds: It is essential that service hosting companies have access to these clouds locally at their facilities, there are more and more customers from various sectors and industries that need and require a connection to companies such as AWS , Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc Cloud connectivity is already a trend and is necessary to meet the technological requirements of customers who live in a Data Center.
5. Sustainability in data centers: Today it is increasingly evident that the use of old technologies can negatively impact the environment. There is much talk of Green Data Centers that come to reduce and improve energy consumption and fuel that is required to keep alive the systems that achieve the operation of a Data Center. “It is definitely a great challenge that becomes a trend for a better quality of life, not only for the business but for the environment, the balance between natural resources and the environment is essential for a data center to be sustainable in the face of arrival of this 2022.” concludes the manager.
