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Data Centers: Building the Infrastructure of the Future
Ellen Messmer, senior editor at Network World, recently reported Gartner’s 10 top trends in IT infrastructure that were outlined by Dave Cappuccio, Gartner Chief of Research, in a keynote address at Gartner’s Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit.
- Tablet Proliferation – Tablets like the iPad are replacing many of the tasks performed by laptop and desktop computer. Tablet apps are typically smaller and more focused at performing specific tasks.
- Datacenter Optimization – Server footprints continue to shring and datacenter configurations get more dense. That’s combined with a strong focus on green computing and energy efficiency. By 2017 an important metric for most datacenters will be performance per kilowatt.
- Datacenter Resource Management – Hybrid infrastructures of cloud and on-premise will demand better tracking of both physical and virtual services, their purposes, and their utilizations. It will be important to know how all the pieces connect together, the locations of those component, who is using them, and what services are being used.
- Mobility and Personal Cloud – Users will increasingly rely on a variety of mobile devices and it will become important to factor that reality into infrastructure designs.
- Hybrid Cloud – 60 percent of enterprises are using the cloud now and that is only expected to increase. Over the next three years, businesses are expected to move commodity services into the public cloud while keeping their more sensitive data and services on-premise, building a hybrid cloud to connect the two.
- Fabric Data Centers – Computing will increasingly try to optimize the balance of resources and workloads, considering factors like the computer capability and storage, number of users, and time of day.
- IT Complexity – Trends like virtualization, mobility and cloud computing are increasingly adding to the complexity of managing IT.
- Big Data and Analytics – As businesses collect more data they’ll increasingly apply intelligent analytics to the data to extract insights from it.
- New Generation of Helpdesks – People’s familiarity with technologies like mobility and social media are making them consider tactics like crowdsourcing first rather then contacting centralized help desks when tackling problems.
- Virtualized Data Centers – Data centers will develop a virtual layer of software and automatic workflow to enable the data center to become more responsive and able to morph quickly based on the current needs.
