FEATURE: DATA CENTRE NETWORKS
CENTRE OF
THE RISE OF THE DATA CENTRE HAS ARGUABLY DRIVEN MUCH OF THE DEMAND FOR GREATER BANDWIDTH AND HIGHER DATA RATES. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE COMPONENTS MARKET?
KEELY PORTWAY
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he data centre market is a particularly wide-ranging one, with one of the driving forces in recent years the emergence of the hyperscale data
centre or cloud service provider. Despite the pandemic causing chaos in
most sectors, much industry intelligence about data centres points to ongoing growth. Te Data centre construction – global market trajectory and analytics report from Research and Markets, for example, highlights that, amid the crisis, the global data centre construction market was estimated at $19.4bn last year. Tis is now projected to reach a revised $31bn by 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.9 per cent over the analysis period. Gartner focuses on data centre infrastructure
spend in its report, General manager insight: data centre infrastructure spending downturn and three actions for recovery. Market intelligence first stated that, despite a 10 per cent spending decline in 2020, the data centre market will rebound over the next four years.
Growing pains End-user spending on global data centre infrastructure, the report states, is projected to reach $200bn this year, an increase of 6 per cent from last year. Naveen Mishra, senior research director at Gartner, explained: ‘Te priority for most
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companies in 2020 was keeping the lights on, so data centre growth is generally being pushed back until the market enters the recovery period. Gartner expects larger enterprise data centre sites to hit pause temporarily, then resume expansion plans early this year.’ Tere is, of course, one exception to those
‘hiting pause’, as one might imagine. Mishra elaborated: ‘Hyperscalers will continue with their global expansion plans due to continued investments in public cloud.’ While pandemic lockdowns prevented a high percentage of facility construction in
HYPERSCALERS WILL CONTINUE WITH THEIR GLOBAL EXPANSION PLANS DUE TO CONTINUED INVESTMENTS IN PUBLIC CLOUD
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