Data center hardware Development input will continue to increase

Gartner researcher Jon Hardcastle said that according to the 2010-2015 Global data Center Forecast report, with the growing investment in storage, Gartner said 2011 global Data Center hardware spending will reach $99 billion trillion.

First, virtualization technology is helping organizations use infrastructure more efficiently, inhibit the further expansion of the overall system; Second, data centers are becoming more efficient, system deployments are becoming more dense, space-use growth has slowed, and the convergence of Third-party data centers has reduced the overall size of midsize data centers.

Gartner also predicts that large data centers with more than 500 rack servers will increase their share of spending from 20% in 2010 to 26% in 2015.

A fact that accompanies data centers for years, remains the same today: data growth is not decreasing. From an IT perspective, one of the main problems is not the understanding of the problem, but the prioritization of the problem. We've spent years dealing with this problem, and it's still there, and it's that storage-management projects are usually started from the beginning, not from the top down, turning many of these projects into "unconventional" states with virtually no long-term investments.

Leading companies have become aware of this problem and are beginning to focus on storage utilization and management as a means of reducing ground space and energy use, improving compliance and tightening control in the development of data centers. It is time to proceed, as the biggest developments for the next five years are on unstructured data-the most difficult to manage from a process or tool perspective. The next few years will be key technologies that have inline deduplication, data automatic tiering, optimized for high-end performance, but significantly lower energy costs for flash or solid-state drives. NAND prices will continue to move fast, with $7870 per g from 1997 down to $1.25 a day-a trend that continues.

Gartner's research shows that data center owners can reduce their bottom line investment in infrastructure by another 20%. The report also notes that many data center owners are not tough enough to buy data center integration Solutions (bargaining).

"Data center owners have to develop a consultative strategy--supported by it and the procurement department--to save significant costs through a structured infrastructure (FBI)," said Gartner analyst George Weiss. Weiss provides a 11-step cost-saving approach to the data center industry.

The problem is that when it and business managers establish their role in negotiating with suppliers, the technology procurement Department is downgraded to a helper role. He says vendors often use strategies to accelerate it integration, transport, and installation configurations, bypassing it buyers.

' You need to pay more attention to suppliers, Weiss said. "The procurement must be based on detailed guidelines and monitoring of the entire procurement process," he said. "All parties involved in purchasing (should) understand what the deliverables, commitments, and long-term meaning are," he said. ”

Gartner believes the FBI is an emerging discipline that integrates hardware and software infrastructure. Automation helps it enterprise organizations to create an ever-optimized data center. It is similar to architecture based computing (FBC), but it groups and categorizes the "variables" section involved in infrastructure integration.

Data center managers can save 20% of the cost of a catalog price by focusing on the purchasing process of an FBI or converged infrastructure solution, Weiss said. "Typically, the purchase contract for a converged solution is around 200~300 million dollars, which means that even saving only 10% of the cost can save 20~30 million." ”

The 11 cost-saving steps proposed by Weiss include avoiding too much reliance on a particular vendor, ensuring that the sourcing experts are not bypassed, and paying more attention to the details of individual product discounts.