12 Trends in future data centers and cloud computing

With the IT world moving into another new platform-client/server to cloud-on-demand services-many business users are pondering how to adjust or upgrade their systems to meet the needs of the internet era. At present, most large enterprises have been able to cope with petabytes (1 pb=1024 TB) data processing and storage transaction requirements, and a large number of data loads are gradually transitioning to a growing number of small and medium enterprise user business. They are increasingly discovering in practical applications that forward-looking business data can help them predict the future of the market and help them understand the specific distribution of new customers.

In view of this, here are 12 trends in the future of the data center and cloud.

Trend one: preconfigured hardware and software

Businesses have been looking for ways to simplify it, including by buying pre-configured middleware and application platforms. servers, storage arrays, and switches will be integrated into the trend.

Trend two: More and more low-power micro-servers

More and more customers are starting to think about how to handle general work transactions with Low-power, inexpensive servers equipped with standard processors. A large number of cloud service providers, such as Google, have begun to lay it out.

Trend three: More applications will be implanted into virtual machines

Almost half of all enterprise applications are in virtual machines, and this trend will be further enhanced.

Trend four: further development of virtualization

Globally, the number of virtual hosts will exceed the number of physical servers in 2011, thanks largely to x86 servers.

Trend Five: Build more data centers

This is by far the most successful cloud computing application-the data center, which can handle a wide range of services such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon and Yahoo. The ad-based revenue model will inject strong momentum into this trend.