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FEATURE
Edge
According to market analyst , Gartner , around 90 % of enterprise data is currently processed within centralised data centres . Therefore , next year and in the foreseeable future we can expect the massive demand and growth in enterprise cloud computing – public , private and hybrid – to remain the major driver for growth in the data centre industry as a whole .
However , with the eventual arrival of 5G networks and autonomous vehicles , latency sensitive IoT operational workloads will eventually shift towards the network edge . This will lead to rising demand for much smaller ‘ micro ’ data centres in closer proximity . Even so , the vast volumes of data created at the edge and the growing need for powerful analytics will still rely on the services of centralised , hyperscale facilities – the two architectures are , and always will be , inextricably linked .
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Power Power to space ratio will be increasingly critical for achieving highly concentrated power to rack in ever smaller footprints . Growing hyperscale cloud and HPC deployments are already driving up rack
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