Research firm Gartner's statistics show that in 2020 there will be 20 billion devices connected to the Internet, it does not highlight the things growth, but to attract attention to the large amount of data. Things purpose is to help people make more informed decisions based on these data, whether in agriculture, health care, IT or key service areas. Challenges organizations face is how to use these data, analyze the data, and the formation of the decision to use these data in near real time.
For many people, the answer lies in using edge calculations, especially computational power and storage capacity to a position closer to collect data. This leads to another question: whether the things growth and edge computing use will affect the development of the data center and hosting market and if so, it will make the traditional data center becomes redundant, or promote it to the new importance? ?
This is not a clear answer. Things edges and calculate the impact on the data center depends on many dynamic intersection of technology and purchasing behavior. These include:
Use of things - things currently use is still highly vertically oriented, focused on a number of use cases with high potential, such as healthcare, retail and manufacturing.
5G mature - although the technology has been pushed to the consumer market, but to achieve the next development platform undecided on the issue of security and coverage area.
Using data analysis - basically the same as the way of things, it is generally accepted data analysis has great potential. However, optimization of the absorbent and corresponding things, the opportunity to analyze limited to vertical applications.
Hosted edge region feasibility - feasibility mobile specific example of the edge position and the edge of the communication and computing capacity required will depend on the starting position of the data center region, and reduce the cost and performance limitations of public cloud.
Extended customer data Lake - Lake mature customer data is planned outside the boundaries of the cloud, it is possible in the cloud more broadly released to support the integration of applications before the edge.
Calculating the desired position the edge - the position of edge computing, either on a physical location or structure, in this model have a higher economic weight, and will have a significant effect on the results.
What data center and edge computing is the next stage of development?
Effect edge computation will depend on the use of the data center and the interaction of the above elements, in order to capture the data, transmission, processing, storage and management. In fact, already we have a lot of interaction between these factors. However, the agreement requires a lot of integration between them, in order to calculate the edge of things instances to establish an effective business case.
From a business user perspective, the last element is the position of the edge computing can be anything, from a ship, or aircraft to rig a temporary site or event. From a data center or hosting provider's point of view, to make things work and edge computing instances changes may need more than just infrastructure, but change the way of thinking. Traditionally, these providers owned or leased facilities to serve the business center in a specific location, so there is no instance of its facilities closer to customers.
Remote hosting provider can expand its services, but for data center providers, depending on the economic position, latency and capacity. In many cases, infrastructure footprint just hope that hosting providers can do the job. In certain cases, this may indeed be true, but this is largely luck of geography, it is difficult to become the basis for sustainable edge hosting business model. This will require the mobilization of communications and computing resources in an effective, responsive and economic situation, in many cases, it will be time-limited.
To be fair, things diffusion and edge computing use will affect the entire business. But the impact of these technologies on data center and hosting market, to a large extent depends on the interaction among several factors affecting the environment.
From new technology to master 5G, etc. to transfer custody business model, only time and customer behavior in order to explain things and whether data created lake will drive the rebirth of the data center.