With the ability to scale quickly without linear add-on costs, a hyperscale datacenter will change every aspect to the datacenter
In the digital age, businesses need to take decisions on a real-time basis. From booking cabs (Uber, Ola) to consuming food (Swiggy, Zomato), consumers are increasingly shifting their preferences to online mediums. Given the extreme pace that businesses operate today, enterprises cannot wait for their IT systems to deliver the services at a pace that traditional systems offer. Organizations need an IT infrastructure that can scale quickly to provision increased demand and scale down appropriately when demand reduces.
This has led to the demand for hyperscale datacenters. Hyperscale refers to the capability of an IT system or architecture to scale exponentially and rapidly to respond to demand that is increasingly heavily. Given the demands of the digital era, hyperscale datacenters are set to dominate datacenter trends and design. A report by Allied Market Research titled, 'Hyperscale Datacenter Market by Type', states that the global hyperscale datacenter market is expected to generate $71.2 billion by 2022 from $26.33 billion in 2017, growing at a CAGR of 20.7% from 2017 to 2022. Another report by Markets & Markets estimates the hyperscale datacenter market to grow from USD 25.08 Billion in 2017 to USD 80.65 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 26.32%. Cisco estimates that by 2021, traffic within hyperscale datacenters will quadruple, and hyperscale datacenters will account for 55% of all datacenter traffic by 2021.
Let us now look at some major ways on how hyperscale datacenters are reshaping IT, by encouraging datacenter architects to consider some vital parameters:
As one can see, hyperscale data centers are clearly defining the future landscape of enterprise IT. With the ability to scale quickly without linear add-on costs, a hyperscale datacenter will change every aspect to the datacenter—from the way they are designed to the way hardware components are sourced to defining the standards in terms of energy efficiency. These clearly are exciting times for the datacenter industry as we embark on a new dawn of enterprise IT where everything is software defined!
Vimal Kaw
Head of Product, Datacenter, NTTGDCI
Vimal Kaw heads the Data Center Services for NTT Ltd, a US $11 billion global technology services company. With more than two decades of industry experience, Vimal is responsible for effective Data Center capacity management. In this capacity, he is overseeing the technical aspects of the collocation business and providing end-to-end support for the entire value chain – from conceptualization and development of collocation products and services to regular pre-sales customer engagement, solution/service design and customer project delivery.