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STANDARDISATION AND COLLABORATION ARE THE KEYS TO HYPERSCALE-CLASS DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS
The demand for high-performance infrastructure is soaring , resulting in industry collaboration and standardisation initiatives revolutionising the data centre ecosystem . Paul Mellon , Operations Director , Stellium Datacenters , explores how the hyperscale landscape is evolving and how enterprise organisations have an impact . emand for high quality
D hyperscale data centres across the globe has never been higher . Hyperscale providers will account for more than half of worldwide data centre capacity by 2027 , according to Synergy Research Group ’ s annual market report last year . Hyperscalers currently account for around 37 % of global capacity , with almost 900 large data centres operated by this segment . Half of this capacity is in own-built data centres , and the other half is in leased facilities .
Clearly , hyperscalers have high expectations and demands . They require their data centres and those of their prospective partners to ensure their technology and applications are powered , cooled , protected and connected , when and how they want , irrespective of geographic location . Continuous IT availability through the provision of scalable , future-proofed power and resilient critical infrastructure are prerequisites . So too are optimised energy efficiencies and industry leading PUEs and compliance with environmental , security , quality and operational regulations .
Though hyperscalers are leading the charge for more space , power and connectivity , large enterprise organisations are a further contributing factor to exploding data centre growth .
As with hyperscalers , they recognise that high-quality purpose-designed and built colocation data centres offer many benefits versus the alternative of continuing to operate their own selfbuild / managed solutions . Increasingly , they are looking to deploy HPC workloads which effectively require hyperscale-class data centre solutions .
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