Data Center Trends to Watch 2022 Report Unveiled During the Omdia Research Forum; Data Center World 2023 Scheduled for May 8-11 in Austin, Texas
Data Center World the leading global conference for data center facilities and IT professionals, brought the data center industry together to learn and network. Data Center World welcomed over 1,500 attendees and 150 exhibitors to the Austin Convention Center, as well as virtual attendees. Over four days, the event offered data center and IT professionals keynotes, panel discussions and case studies focused on edge computing, co-location, hyperscale, predictive analytics, 5G, DCIM, cloud, AI and sustainability. In addition, for the first time, Omdia presented a half-day conference. Data Center World is AFCOM’s annual gathering of IT and data center professionals.
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“Gathering this fast-growing industry together was incredible. There was so much excitement from attendees and exhibitors and sponsors to be back together learning and networking,” said Tara Gibb, Senior Director, Data Center World. “In addition, our first Omdia Research Forum was a smashing success, and attendees left with a solid understanding of what to expect over the course of the next few years. We look forward to bringing new innovative learning opportunities to our 2023 event.”
Omdia Research Forum / Data Center Trends to Watch 2022 Report
Data Center World hosted the first Omdia Research Forum on March 28. Global technology research firm, Omdia, presented the half-day conference within a conference and the Data Center Trends to Watch 2022 report was unveiled.
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Key highlights of the report include:
- Data center managers are managing more data than ever before. Forty-nine percent of respondents stated that they’ll be managing at least 1 PB of data, while 24% will be managing between 5-50 PB of data.
- Approximately half of respondents’ report seeing both a general strain on supply chains and pandemic-related supply chain issues. One in four report supply chains challenges have caused outages.
- Sustainability is a key focus. Seventy-eight percent of respondents are seeing increased usage of renewable energy utilization in their data centers, while 87% believe water efficiency will continue to grow in importance.
- Most data centers will be deploying edge infrastructure. Today, 58% of respondents have implemented less than five edge locations, however, 92% indicated they will have between six and ten new locations between now and 36 months.
- Software-defined solutions will have major impacts on edge infrastructure. Almost half of respondents (46%) report their organizations have currently implemented edge compute capacity and just over a third (38%) are looking at software-defined power solutions to better manage capacity and power.
- A majority of respondents (59%) are seeing a repatriation of workloads from cloud computing back to on-premise data centers or colocations. This is driven by cost concerns, reliability & real-time performance needs, latency sensitivity and growing concerns around corporate data. Storage management is the most common workload being repatriated.
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