DATA CENTRES
When the world went home, data centers went to work
Exploring data center trends during COVID-19 with Mukul Anand, business development director – data centers, Brian Hatmaker, global director – data centers and Michael Zarrilli, executive director, global data center products and ecosystem at Johnson Controls.
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ives have changed drastically in the last year as we rely upon remote interactions instead of traditional in-person
experiences. This transition has been rapid and vast. We witnessed an overnight virtualization of school and the workplace, and people are spending more time online for entertainment, shopping, and social connections. There has been a dramatic increase in
network traffic and greater and more distributed demand overall for cloud services. This instant shift to virtual technology and acceleration of cloud adoption and expansion is straining the internet’s underlying infrastructure (mainly home networks), ISP providers and data centers. For instance, the meteoric adoption of
online meeting platforms like Microsoft Team 36 November 2020
and Zoom in the early days of the pandemic permitted remote classroom and workplace overnight. The sustained utilization of these platforms months later has enabled a transition at a scale unheard of just a few years ago; demonstrating just how dynamic and flexible the cloud can be. In 2019, hyperscale, cloud data center providers grew at 15% and this is expected to be maintained this year and is expected to increase through 2023. In today’s market, the biggest question to ask is how can we meet the rapidly surging data center demand while also reducing construction costs & operating expenses, improving sustainability, and enhancing reliability. These are a few of the major trends the data center market is seeing during the pandemic.
Rapid construction demands
As other industries see reductions, data centers see opportunity and are accelerating investment in existing and new cloud and edge markets. The shift to rapid modular construction has heightened data center providers’ reliance and relationship with key suppliers, especially in critical infrastructure systems like HVAC and power.
Customers are more reliant than ever on their supplier partnerships and are carefully evaluating new entrants for capabilities such as global business experience, ability to support with a global service platform with dedicated teams of experts, and holistic portfolio offerings and solutions beyond just equipment/system. These global partnerships are helping data centers meet
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