FEATURE
Jackson Lee, Vice President of
Corporate Development, Colt DCS,
discusses the upcoming trends he
predicts for the data centre industry
in 2020. He says that what needs to
change the most is the mindset of data
centre providers as they should focus
on offering the best possible solution
for their customers.
The data centre trends
set to shape 2020
A
s we stand just weeks away from the new decade,
we are presented with the opportunity to look back
on the year that was and gaze ahead at what’s to come
in the new year.
2019 has been a year of new technology trends promising
to alter our business landscape as we know it. Safe to say
not all these trends came fully to fruition but they did lay the
groundwork for the coming years and we are excited to see
where this takes us.
data centres has grown, raising questions around the need for
hyperscale data centres in years to come. But hyperscale is here
to stay. In fact, the demand for these large-scaled centralised
data centres is set to reach new heights in 2020, with bigger
than ever data centres entering the scene.
As digital companies expand into new markets, Asia and Europe
will take the lead in terms of new hyperscale builds. Smaller
facilities are not commonplace in these regions where regulations
and barriers surrounding new builds have limited the number of
facilities providers can enact.
Bigger the better – hyperscale is here to stay
2019 saw an uptick of smaller data centre facilities. Designed
for smaller workloads, the demand for decentralised micro
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
On the flipside, the US – a more mature market where the data
centre new build market is much easier to navigate – will see an
ease in hyperscale facilities in 2020.
Issue 10
35