According to Gartner, the role of data centers will change over the next five years. Due to which organisations will not have a clear picture on how to plan their future data center architectures.
Rakesh Kumar, research vice president, Gartner, says, “Over the next five to ten years many organisations will need to change their approach to previous data center strategies, as most of the world comes out of recession and the Nexus of Forces (social, mobile, cloud and information) affects technology use.”
"Agility, a critical third variable, will become increasingly important in future,” he further adds.
Gartner also says that going ahead organisations need to plan their future data center strategies around eight forces. Gartner has identified those eight areas to balance cost, risk and agility:
Start Deploying Processor, Memory and Power Efficient Technologies: The next few years will bring significant enhancements to process architectures and the economics of processor and memory components will change. In-memory computing will become more widely used, helped by ever-cheaper DRAM and NAND flash memory. At the same time, the use of low-energy processors in servers will increase.
Rakesh Kumar, research vice president, Gartner, says, “Over the next five to ten years many organisations will need to change their approach to previous data center strategies, as most of the world comes out of recession and the Nexus of Forces (social, mobile, cloud and information) affects technology use.”
"Agility, a critical third variable, will become increasingly important in future,” he further adds.
Gartner also says that going ahead organisations need to plan their future data center strategies around eight forces. Gartner has identified those eight areas to balance cost, risk and agility:
Start Deploying Processor, Memory and Power Efficient Technologies: The next few years will bring significant enhancements to process architectures and the economics of processor and memory components will change. In-memory computing will become more widely used, helped by ever-cheaper DRAM and NAND flash memory. At the same time, the use of low-energy processors in servers will increase.
- Move toward a balanced architectural topology and delivery model: The use of cloud and a range of hosting providers will continue to increase over the next few years as many organisations shift their IT spending from capital expenditure to operating expenditure. Gartner predicts that these markets will converge over the next 10 years as providers increasingly deliver their services on cloud-enabled system infrastructure.
- Invest in operational processes and improved tools: Enterprise data centers are centralised and highly critical IT service delivery hubs relying on well-orchestrated operational processes. Looking ahead, areas such as enterprise security, data management and mapping business processes to core IT processes, will become even more critical — and as agility becomes an increasingly important measure of data center value, improvements in operational processes are vital.
- Integrate disaster recovery and business continuity into core data center strategy:With socioeconomic turbulence in many regions of the world and changes to corporate governance affecting many business areas, strong and well-documented disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) planning is essential for all large data centers.
- The move away from a "just-in-case" strategy to making BC and DR a part of continuous data operations will reduce cost and potentially improve agility.
- Manage capacity growth through data analysis: Over the next five years, most organisations will notice a significant increase in hardware (storage, server and network) capacity, extending to network traffic, data center floor space, power and cooling.
- Plan for operating system and application changes: During the next five years, changes will be made to the operating system diversity in most large data centers. A steady migration away from UNIX onto the Linux platform will take place, the Windows environment will continue to grow and the IBM Z O/S will see expansion in certain geographies and contraction in others.
- Make consolidation and rationalisation a continuous change program: Organisations should position their data related activities as a continuous change rather than a one-off project. Continuous optimisation of hardware and physical sites will mean that infrastructure and operations groups are more likely to run at an optimum cost level.
- Modernise data center facilities: Data center managers must modernise the capabilities of their facilities to handle both the emerging hardware technology and the escalation in energy consumption as a result of projected growth in server volume. Data center infrastructure management tools should be considered as a vital part of data center management.
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