Reducing data centre energy costs – a top
priority according to poll
NEWS
poll from Secure I.T. Environments
A Ltd, one of the UK’s leading
design and build companies for
modular and containerised data centres,
has revealed that reducing energy costs
(46%) and improving energy efficiency
(39%) are key priorities for 2020 among
IT professionals. The poll, which was
conducted across the Data Centre World
event, found nearly a third (29%) will be
focusing on relocating their data centre(s)
over the remainder of 2020.
Asked about the top two challenges facing
their IT infrastructure over the next two
years, 49% cited upgrading their existing
data centres as the
biggest challenge.
Second was the
continued pressure
organisations face
around regulatory
compliance (37%),
either in terms of
their specific industry,
or areas of general
compliance related
to the IT department
such as GDPR,
ISO27001, IASME
Governance or NIST to
name but a few.
As we all know, bringing projects to life
can be challenging, as revealed when
respondents were asked about areas
such as budgeting and skills. A total of
34% reported that they see recruiting
skilled professionals to work in their
IT departments as a key challenge for
the coming years. Budgets for projects
can also be a problem: 20% described
themselves as ‘always underfunded’.
The poll showed that organisations
are not only looking to upgrade their
data centres but invest in new
technologies to support their businesses
across 2020 and 2021. Improving data
centre connectivity to benefit cloud
services and high-performance computing
were joint top at 27%, followed by
incorporating 5G technology and AI at
24%. Edge data centres also featured
heavily with 22% planning to implement
these to improve the performance and
flexibility of their infrastructure.
NetFoundry simplifies IoT Edge Compute and private 5G
etFoundry, a leader in
N zero trust networking, has
announced a new embedded
networking solution within Microsoft
Azure Edge Zones. The integration will
allow businesses to easily and securely
tap into the power of Edge Compute
and optional private 5G for use cases,
including industrial IoT, near-real time
video processing and analytics.
Microsoft announced Azure Edge
Zones with its partners, including
Azure Private Edge Zones. Azure
Private Edge Zones enable application
workloads to span edges and clouds
with a common Azure experience, APIs
and security. NetFoundry’s integration
facilitates direct connections between
businesses and Azure Private Edge
Zones without deploying extra network
gear. This capability is particularly
important at Edge sites that often lack
space, power and cooling. With the
NetFoundry embedded networking
solution, all applications, from Edge to
cloud, can use any Internet connection,
instantly joining a NetFoundry-powered
zero trust, high-performance network.
Zero trust security is an industry-accepted
architecture that assumes “zero trust”
of actors and protocols both outside and
inside an organisation.
Galeal Zino, NetFoundry Founder and CEO,
said: “Azure Private Edge Zones will be a
game-changer for application developers,
solution providers and businesseseliminating
the complexity of Edge and
IoT deployments with a seamless
experience and low-latency compute.
We are honoured to be selected as
one of the 5G, security and networking
providers enabling this ecosystem.”
The NetFoundry platform enables
businesses to securely and reliably
connect distributed compute
environments, providing zero trust,
high-performance networking as a
service (NaaS) from Edge to cloud and
everywhere in between.
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