Are you a large enterprise, government agencies or managed service provider? Then you know the way you utilize energy in the data center is changing rapidly, with significant change expected in the next five years. Some of the key elements changing include increased power demands, efficency, performance and availability.
Clemens Pfeiffer, CTO of Power Assure says, "Gone will be the costly operating model where all assets, including servers, lighting and cooling, are powered at full capacity 24×7. The new operating model will match server capacity with demand in real-time, and energy efficiency will become a key consideration for all data center assets." In his blog post for Environmental Leader, he outlines the 12 trends that data center and facility managers can expect to see.
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Private cloud use, expanding public cloud use
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Accelerated consolidation efforts within and among data centers
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Virtualized and load-balanced infrastructure
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Monitoring and management consistentcy among data centers
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Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) will continue to trend downwards
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Accurate reference data for idle and peak power requirements will be needed
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Improve energy efficiency ratings
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The electric grid will become increasingly unstable
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Organizations will begin asking their data centers, as major users of electricity, to reduce consumption during these peak demand periods
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Organizations will begin to participate in regional energy markets by implementing demand response, ancillary services and/or distributed generation to help stabilize the utility grid.
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Larger organizations will deploy multiple data centers around the globe to meet the need for growth in server capacity (in some case up to 20% annually), as well as to increase application availability and improve disaster recovery preparedness.
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In an effort to gain a competitive advantage by becoming more “green” (both financially and environmentally), most companies will designate a chief sustainability officer (CSO).
Here is more about the top trends in data center management from Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida.
