Secrets: Six optimization trends of data centers in the future

Secrets: Six optimization trends of data centers in the future

As the cost of data centers soar, the focus of data center management began to shift to optimizing the data center infrastructure. In the next few years, the following new trends will inevitably affect the decision-making of data centers in the future:

(1) data center site selection

The site selection of a data center is a very important decision. Because the current technological advances have made it possible for most tasks to be remotely operated, there is only a small number of staff on site, which provides a wide range of regional options for the data center site selection. Some factors that have a considerable impact on this decision are:

Climate Characteristics of site selection regions

Minimum fee per kilowatt hour

Minimum environmental hazards

Reduce production costs

Low population density in the selected area

Low Construction Cost

Low labor costs

The feasibility of "Natural Cooling": the use of outdoor air for cooling data centers, thus the need to reduce mechanical cooling.

(2) Green IT

Energy consumption directly affects cooling fees. After all, heat dissipation mainly comes from equipment. The strategic business plan will directly affect the type and quantity of IT devices installed in the data center. It is important to know the type and efficiency of the equipment in the data center, as this affects the power and cooling strategies of the data center and the physical design strategies of the data center. Making IT more efficient and cost-effective will continue to become the focus of the industry, both for manufacturers and consumers.

(3) remote monitoring of data centers

The debate on outsourcing of enterprise data centers continues. The Enterprise has decided to continue running IT internally and has found a cost-effective supplier that uses external data center monitoring. In some cases, physical infrastructure equipment, external monitoring and Level 1 Support require security access. More infrastructure firewalls and security measures are required, which will increase the complexity of the data center. On the other hand, because staff salaries and workspace are continuous expenditures. In addition, it is easier to scale a team in an external environment.

(4) scalability and modularization

In the past few years, only the scalability and modular architecture of hardware and software have been available to meet increasing demands. Given the pressure on infrastructure costs and needs, it is necessary to implement a scalable and modular design approach for the data center infrastructure.

This approach, for example, applies to UPS and distribution systems, will allow the data center to add/disable a part, without affecting another data center. The flexible design allows the hosting service provider to add and delete certain parts of the data center as required by the customer. A flexible design is also required to cater to customers' demands for different loads and tasks.

(5) Disaster recovery optimization and availability

Historically, hardware utilization is very low, and virtualization still has a long way to go. However, the focus of attention has been on how to improve the efficiency of production data centers, but the disaster recovery (DR)/backup center issue has not been taken into account. Because it is always "off" or "idle ". Now, enterprises have realized that they have begun to invest heavily in these idle devices. And uses innovative methods for disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure. The use of disaster recovery centers as a testing and training trend continues to grow. The design must take into account the switching capability and produce with the safest and quickest means.

(6) Data Center Infrastructure Management

The integration of IT and data center facility management is a reality. Most infrastructure devices are IP-oriented, just as IT devices have been deployed for years. Several companies in the development stage need to integrate two different environments. The ability of IT components and physical infrastructure elements planned based on the scenario will enable designers to know how the planned and changed IT environments affect the physical environment, and vice versa. For example, if we have installed a specific type of IT hardware, what will happen to the load on the UPS and cooling systems? To avoid the cost not exceeding the engineering cost, these products will be smoothly launched into the market.

These factors must be fully taken into account in the early stages of data center policy and design. After all, these features will have a very important impact on the IT budget, if not planned, this may adversely affect the computing capability and operation costs of the data center.