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Emerson Network Power Identiies Six

Data Center Trends to Watch in 2015

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson Below are the six trends that are shaping the
(NYSE: EMR) and a global leader in maximizing decisions data center designers, operators and
availability, capacity and eiciency of critical managers are making.
infrastructure, today identiied six data center
trends that will grow in importance in 2015
1. Cloud comes of age
as data center operators seek ways to respond Cloud computing has become established in
to dynamic market conditions as quickly and the data center ecosystem as most organizations
eiciently as possible.
already use some form of sotware-as-a-service
“Data centers are undergoing fundamental changes as management shits their focus
(SaaS). Now cloud is poised to expand from that foothold and become an engine of innovation.
to issues such as speed of deployment, Forward-thinking organizations are combining
manageability, scalability, eiciency and cloud-based services such as analytics,
security,” said Steve Hassell, president, Data collaboration, and communication to better
Center Solutions at Emerson Network Power. understand their customers and bring new
“hey are seeking innovations that give them products and services to market faster.
the agility they need to respond to changes both he result is that a growing number of
in the data center ecosystem and in the markets organizations will be managing hybrid
they serve.”
environments in which on-premises IT resources
are supplemented with strategic use of cloud
and colocation services to enhance utilization,
resiliency and lexibility. For their part, cloud
providers must demonstrate the ability to scale
quickly while consistently meeting service level
agreements, in order to thrive in an increasingly
competitive environment.
Cloud providers will drive innovation in
the industry as they adopt technologies and
practices that achieve high reliability at the
lowest possible cost.
2. Integration extends its reach
Integrated systems were developed to help
organizations deploy and scale applications
faster while reducing risk and total costs. With
rapid changes in many markets being driven
by innovation, digitization and mobility, the
need for speed that integration and convergence
delivers is greater than ever. As a result,
integration and convergence has expanded
beyond the IT stack to the systems that support
that stack.
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prefabricated modules. his new approach to
facility development has enabled organizations,
such as Facebook, to develop fully customized,
high performance data centers in 30 percent less
time than it took using traditional construction processes.
Combining the attributes of fast deployment,
inherent scalability and excellent performance,
this approach is becoming an attractive
alternative for supporting additional IT capacity.

3. Convergence goes macro
Technology systems aren’t the only
things experiencing a convergence. he
telecommunications and IT industries are
moving closer together as voice and data services
are now routinely consumed on the same device.
In fact, more than half of the participants
in the Data Center 2025 project predicted
that at least 60 percent of telecommunications
network facilities will be data centers by
2025, and 79 percent expect at least half of
telecommunications companies to make
colocation facilities part of their networks. his convergence will drive more standardization
in the technologies used to support voice and
data services and break down the silos that have
traditionally existed between these two critical
functions.

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