Intelligent Data Centres Issue 24 | Page 17

DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS

VERTIV EXPERTS FORESEE UTILITY- LIKE CRITICALITY FOR DATA CENTRES IN 2021

Experts from Vertiv reveal key trends to look out for this year in the data centre sector , and how they expect investment in IT infrastructure to continue and expand .

As the world moved online

seemingly overnight in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic , the criticality of data centres and the unrelenting reliance on them across all walks of life became an enduring storyline of the crisis .
This reality will manifest in new ways throughout the year as the data centre and the information ecosystem emerges from the pandemic with a fourth utility criticality , complete with all the expectations and responsibilities that implies .
This is among the emerging 2021 data centre trends identified by experts from Vertiv , a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions .
Data centres have long been held to high-availability standards , but the shift towards utility-like status will be noticeable in two ways . First , those high www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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