Modernization is one of IDC's ten key forecasts for the global data center market over the next three years. The entire data center industry will also continue to shift toward software-defined infrastructure, with widespread adoption of autonomous IT infrastructure, shift toward consumption-based payment models, and more. The following are IDC's top ten predictions for the development trend of the data center industry in the next one to three years:
1. Data Center Modernization
It is expected that by 2020, next-generation applications and heavy workload demands of new IT architectures in mission-critical facilities will force 55% of enterprise organizations to fulfill their data by updating their existing data center facilities or deploying new data center facilities Modernization of central assets.
2. Workload rationalization
It is expected that by 2019, 50% of enterprise organizations will begin to actively rationalize workloads and accelerate the adoption of next-generation workloads. Therefore, they need to make significant changes to the design and layout of the infrastructure, as well as the IT operating model.
3. Hybrid IT operations
By the end of 2019, 70% of organizations working on digital transformation are expected to be struggling to translate their business needs into effective IT investment and operational plans, forcing them to change their employee recruitment goals to ensure they have the advanced level needed to build digital offerings skill chain.
4. Modularization of facilities
By 2021, the expanded use of power-hungry accelerated computing technologies is expected to force most major data center operators to adopt a modular approach to deploying power/cooling assets in their data center facilities.
5. IT-based consumption
By 2020, consumption-based procurement in the data center industry is expected to eclipse traditional procurement models by improving "as-a-service" models, and as a result, will account for 40% of enterprise IT infrastructure spending.
6. Data Control
By 2021, 25% of large enterprise organizations are expected to use data controls to set up and execute automated data controls across cloud services, core data centers, and edge locations, turning mandatory regulatory compliance investments into benefits Advantage.
7. Software-defined IT
It is expected that by the end of 2019, the need for increased flexibility, better manageability, and increased asset utilization will force organizations to digitally transform and migrate more than 50% of their IT infrastructure at data center and edge locations to Software-defined models.
8. Intelligent edge data center
Half of the critical infrastructure in enterprise data centers is expected to operate autonomously by 2021, and the use of autonomous IT in intelligent edge locations will expand further as enterprises attempt to link core and edge resources in order to support their digitization Transformation plan.
9. Digitally-ready campuses
By 2021, more than 50% of enterprise organizations in consumer-facing industries are expected to spend more time upgrading their network, computing and storage resources at edge locations than implementing upgrades in their core data centers.
10. Service Guarantee
By 2019, 60% of digital services are expected to fail to meet expectations for customer adoption levels because providers of these services cannot effectively monitor and respond quickly to the need for performance, utilization, and cost reductions.