THE EDGE
A cross the entirety of 2020 , the business environment has become highly disrupted . A pandemic forced office closures and social distancing , which had a flow-on effect in creating job losses , market volatility and supply chain disruption .
For the technology industry , it also had the effect of bringing forward a decade ’ s worth of innovation , as enterprises utilised technology to achieve business resilience and look for new competitive advantage . As noted in a McKinsey report , Innovation in a crisis : Why it is more critical than ever , from June : “ In our recent survey of more than 200 organisations across industries , more than 90 % of executives said they expect the fallout from COVID-19 to fundamentally change the way they do business over the next five years , with almost as many asserting that the crisis will have a lasting impact on their customers ’ needs .”
That change that the executives referred to in the McKinsey survey is Digital Transformation . As noted in a report on Fortune , 77 % of CEOs have significantly accelerated their Digital Transformation strategy and investment this year .
To achieve this transformation and deliver an innovative , agile and resilient environment , many organisations have needed to take a renewed look at their data centre environment .
The challenges with innovation and digital-first businesses
Transformation projects are always challenging , particularly when they ’ ve been accelerated by five or even 10 years . The rapid acceleration of data accumulation and analysis , coupled with the increasing complexity of data centre and cloud environments , and the need for greater capacity , power and speed , has created multi-faceted challenges for enterprises .
Huawei ’ s Smart Data Center Solution has been designed to meet these challenges , by bringing collaboration between vendor and customer together to design the environment specifically to meet the enterprises ’ needs , while at the same time lowering costs , building scalability into the solution and transforming the environment to account for the new ways of working and engaging with customers . It does not only cleverly utilise resources to improve productivity , but also adds value to the data centre facilities .
Meanwhile , power consumption by the data centre is an escalating problem for organisations . Data centres currently consume around 2 % of total world electricity , but that could rise to become as high as 8 % by 2030 . With greater social and regulatory interest in power consumption than ever , enterprises need to have a renewed focus on sustainability .
Huawei vows to share social responsibility and success with partners . The Smart Data Center Solution reaffirms the company ’ s commitment to a low carbon footprint , which will help enterprises meet their social corporate citizenship requirements . Additionally , this green solution helps organisations minimise costs with a lower TCO by minimising the escalating energy bills .
DATA CENTRES CURRENTLY CONSUME AROUND 2 % OF TOTAL WORLD ELECTRICITY , BUT THAT COULD RISE TO BECOME AS HIGH AS 8 % BY 2030 .
The Huawei Smart Data Center in action
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ) has an ambitious programme to transform the nation to become a technology and innovation hub . The project , titled ‘ Saudi Vision 2030 ’ is a combination of an economic action plan and national transformation strategy . As part of this strategy , a subsidiary of the Saudi Electricity Company ( Dawiyat ) is rolling fibre to the home networks to the major cities and rapidly scaling the Kingdom ’ s communications environment .
As a new entrant into broadband services , Dawiyat had relatively small technical and maintenance teams . This led it to engage with Huawei for the FusionDC1000A Prefabricated Modular Data Center Solution . This data centre could be positioned outdoors , separate from the IT equipment room and has allowed Dawiyat to deploy communications services on- www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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