What Data Centers Will Look Like by 2025
Technological advances in cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are already changing numerous companies across all industries. This trend continues unstoppably. According to an INAP study*, 81% of IT experts expect that there will probably be no more local data centers in a few years.
Data Storage is Being Relocated
It is undisputed that the mentioned technologies have positive effects on business operations and efficiency for many companies. The flip side, however, is the huge amounts of data generated as a result. Their local storage can become a real challenge and significantly slow down IT networks. This reduced network performance is one of the main reasons for more and more companies to outsource their workloads from on-premise data centers to colocation or the cloud.
The direction seems to be set: IT managers are giving up the data center to increase network performance and improve the scalability of their applications. Fault tolerance also plays an important role in this context.
Off to the (Multi-) Cloud
The cloud will not only reduce the number of data centers but also favor the growth of serverless computing. In the study, the majority of respondents expect that most applications will be deployed serverless by 2025, meaning without consideration of resources or server management.
Nevertheless, "serverless" is not synonymous with cloud or IaaS services. Because most public cloud applications currently still require time-intensive, manual monitoring and resource management. The majority of IT experts also expect that virtually all companies will have a multi-cloud presence by 2025. However, Jennifer Curry, Senior Vice President for Global Cloud Services at INAP, doubts a valid multi-cloud strategy in many companies.
According to Curry, deploying a multi-cloud environment is simple on one hand. On the other hand, however, efficient tools for management and monitoring are necessary to eliminate vulnerabilities, guarantee peak performance, and optimize costs. This is likely to become problematic for many companies, as they currently lack these tools.
Conclusion
On-premise data centers will increasingly disappear in the coming years. As a result, the role and function of IT will inevitably have to evolve. IT experts need less time for routine maintenance and upkeep of the infrastructure. They can thus dedicate themselves to tasks and projects that promote innovation and efficiency in the company. Multi-cloud and hybrid platforms will increasingly replace local data centers. However, there is currently still a lack of tools for their effective management and monitoring. This poses greater challenges for companies.
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*INAP surveyed 500 IT managers and infrastructure managers in the USA and Canada in a representative study about the future of network infrastructure and data centers in the coming years.