DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
The Edge and 5G
1.
Ashraf Yehia, Managing Director –
Middle East, Eaton
is important to data centre operators in
two ways:
1.
Will the adoption of renewable energy
by the grid operator make the grid
less stable and therefore increase the
chance of outages?
2. Can my large data centre stored
energy be used to provide these
ancillary services, thereby providing
a new revenue stream and de-risking
my primary power?
Energy Transition therefore causes the
data operator to rethink and potentially
transform their electrical infrastructure into
a power network with new functionality.
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Issue 14
We will start to understand what
Edge Computing is and what it
isn’t. Over the past few years,
there has been a continuous hyped
conversation around the subject but
a huge gap in knowledge around
how Edge will function remains.
Often the phrases Edge compute,
cloud Edge, Edge data centre,
are all treated as equivalent and
interchangeable terms – but in reality,
they are not. The concept that there
will be a proliferation of discrete
mini/micro cloud data centres at a
neighbourhood level will hit a cold
reality. There are entire countries, let
alone cities, without the presence
of hyperscale cloud data centres
and they are no less sophisticated
in their IT needs than others. The
reason being the well-placed use of
colocation data centres, fixed-line and
mobile broadband networks. Off the
back of 5G, the telecommunications
industry is ideally placed to produce
and support Edge Computing into
the fabric of their networks – either
independently or with cloud/data
centre partners.
2. Device Edge compute is different
from traditional Edge Computing.
Some IoT architectures may require
a connection to a centralised
point for data processing or data
storage. Others will take a different
approach where data is generated
and processed all at the source.
The second approach addresses
latency directly, so lower network
latency and bandwidth is possible.
This approach is adequately handled
IN THE END, IF
WE PRIORITISE
RENEWABLE
ENERGY AND
DECARBONISE
ELECTRICITY,
CONSUMERS
DON’T HAVE
TO FEEL
DIGITAL GUILT.
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