An Evolving Data Center Landscape
The rise of connected technologies and the changing patterns of our day-to-day lives is driving significant change in the data center landscape. As data centers of all types and sizes evolve to support the ever-increasing demand and volume of data, the industry is experiencing the following key trends:
- Increased cloud adoption, hyperscale investment, and the growth of colocation and managed services provision.
- Implementation of data center interconnect (DCI) technology, distributed cloud, and full-mesh switch fabric architecture in highly virtualized environments.
- Migration to 400/800G Ethernet with low-latency 50/100G per second (Gb/s) server connections and cost-effective aggregation.
- 5G and Edge data center buildouts on premises, at access/cellular sites and within central offices and colocation spaces.
- Greater focus on reducing costs and improving operational efficiency, sustainability, and security via a range of innovations such as: white-box networking, software-defined networking, and automation.
