Technologies for the Data Processing Centers (DPC). Overview of TAdviser
Pervasive informatization is the that powerful force which radically changes ideas of business not only of efficiency and formats of the activity, but also the made products and the provided services. The corporate data processing center – "heart" of the digitized business – undergoes radical changes under pressure of new data streams and requirements of business changes of click speeds. Everything changes: from structure of DPC before processing of applied data with the help of modern methods of artificial intelligence. What methods and technologies will play a crucial role in transformation of classical DPC at a new stage of its development? TAdviser analyzed current trends together with experts of the marketPartner of the overview:
Concepts which applied for a role of fundamental reference points in the world of the extending informatization yesterday are only their first beta. The world of corporate information systems did not manage to accept analytics of Big Data as a standard component yet, and experts of Deloitte in the research "Forecasts of Development of the Industries of High Technologies, Telecommunications, Entertainments and Media in 2020" enter a new concept – "too Big Data". It has no strict determination yet, but without it it is difficult to describe key features of that digital world in which submerge the companies and the enterprises of IoT technology and to them similar.
So, the A-350 Airbus airplane locates more than 6 thousand sensors which daily generate about 2.5 Tb of data. The surveillance cameras which are promptly extending worldwide create every day about 2500 PB of data.
that day when the plants have digital doubles, houses and at the whole cities is not far. It will demand considerable resources on storage and data processing. Use of technology of digital doubles will generate emergence of new development processes and management that, in turn, will create new data arrays. The second factor of growth of the industry of Tsodostroyeniya – development of technologies of remote communication, information exchange, growth of quality requirements of the image, development of telemedicine and other TV services, - Stanislav Mirin, the head of DPC iKS-Consulting notes. |
Haypovye the products and services for years looming on a threshold of our reality, at last, will overcome it in 2020, analysts of Deloitte predict and add: "Technologies at last cease to have autonomous character, becoming more and more interconnected and interdependent. As a result, their efficiency and value increase". It means that the area of DPC enters a phase of structural changes.
Mechanisms of redistribution of capacities for resource optimization should be created. Change of a profile of consumption of information is obvious - it becomes global. Solutions on distribution of information after its consumption are required. Also requirements of information security regarding creation of network infrastructure, segmentation, certification of networks and DPC in general contribute significantly, - Vladimir Leonov, the technical director of AMT Group says about principal directions structural transformations of technologies of DPC. |
Artem Kuznetsov, the head of economical service of ARBITEK (AiTeco Group) company emphasizes gain of a role of telecommunication infrastructure in the changing DPC:
As showed events of 2020, a pacing factor of development of digital technologies and, in particular, development of the industry of Tsodostroyeniya, the development of a tekhnogenez which led to emergence of new forms of viruses and methods of their distribution was. Therefore at this stage are the most demanded the broadband Internet at high access rate, free access from any point of the earth to network using technologies 4G or 5G and also placement of services of clients in DPCs for easy access of employees to them from the jobs located out of offices. |
It means growth of projects of any DPC, both corporate, and commercial.
Certainly, big customers prefer to build own DPCs, Konstantin Zinovyev, the director of department of engineering infrastructure of Rubytech company notes. It is explained not only by existence of resources, but also special requirements to security.
However if requirement of the enterprise for IT resources is less, than at big customers, it is also about tens of racks, then to build own DPC often economically unprofitably. In this case it is simpler to rent the place in commercial DPCs, - the expert explains. |
He notes the stable growth of number of such DPCs. According to him, today each new commercial DPC in Moscow is filled with client racks of all in a year. Until recently on it 3-4 years were required.
At the same time fundamental differences between these types of data processing centers not only at the level of business objectives, but also technology approaches are more and more clearly shown.
According to Alexey Malyshev, the founder and the CEO of SONET company, all modern changes in the field of DPC are caused by desire to increase density and installed power per employee of servers. New more powerful/hot processors turn out to be consequence of this desire, technologies of hyper convergence develop, switches with kilowatt power supplies are created, and all this then is stamped in denser packing. Exactly here, according to the expert, one of the main today's problems in construction of DPC is shown: when installing the modern dense equipment heat release of a rack can reach 20 – 25 kW whereas the standard DPC is expected 5-7 kW on a rack.
Therefore we should select: build qualitatively new DPCs (with water cooling and interline conditioners) or to fill racks no more than on a third, - Alexey Malyshev reflects. - If we build own DPC, then we are able to afford "to fill not completely" its racks. But if we rent capacities, we should rent bigger quantity of thin racks that will lead to increase in OPEX. |
In practice, Malyshev tells, and occurs:
Most of customers who build for "themselves"", is used by old technologies that allows them to reduce construction cost. And competitive advantage of the commercial DPCs selling or leasing units is existence of the engineering infrastructure capable "digest" big heatpackets of servers. |
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