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In 2019, the whole IT industry will continue the development trend of 2018, more enterprises will move towards digitization and cloud, and super-large-scale data centers will gradually become the mainstream. On this basis, many data centers begin to face the tremendous pressure brought by the rapid development of business, which drives the change of data center construction and operation mode to a great extent.

In order to better support business operation, enterprises need to build data centers that are faster, smarter, more flexible and easier to manage and maintain. Nowadays, there are many emerging software and hardware technologies that can help data center managers achieve this goal, and it has become an industry trend.

1. Artificial intelligence that has to be mentioned

The application of AI has promoted the transformation of data center computing infrastructure. It is well known that traditional CPU-based servers are difficult to support AI workloads. With the extensive deployment of deep learning, a new type of workload, enterprises increasingly need new hardware, such as GPU, FPGA and even dedicated AI chips. This complicates the IT infrastructure and makes it more difficult to manage the data center, and administrators need to be able to manage, maintain and troubleshoot multiple processors.

In addition, of course, AI brings optimization to the data center-applying AI to data center operations (AIOps). AIOps software is just emerging, but it has been "pinned on high hopes". According to the Gartner report, only 5 per cent of large IT departments are currently using AIOps software, but Gartner estimates that this proportion will grow to 40 per cent by 2022. AIOps software combines big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and visualization, simplifies the processing of daily monitoring and management tasks, and makes the data center operation more efficient.

At the same time, the application of AI in network and security is also worth looking forward to, and data center administrators need to pay attention to AI technology.

Second, the open source community is getting more and more attention.

Last year, two acquisitions in the open source world caused great repercussions in the industry: Microsoft bought GitHub;IBM, an open source software development platform with 28 million developers, for $7.5 billion and Linux developer Red Hat for $34 billion. This largely shows the importance that industry leaders attach to open source.

Today, open source products have received a lot of attention in the IT field. With open source software, enterprises can support their applications with lower costs and higher interoperability. The help of the community also makes open source products easier to use than proprietary products, and data center managers can directly configure the software they need.

The open source world is so vast that IT managers need to do enough research to choose open source projects that are more suitable for their own data centers to create more value.

Third, the Internet of things and edge computing come into view.

As we enter the era of the Internet of everything, the Internet of things technology will become an important role in many enterprise IT environments, including the resulting edge computing, which will bring significant changes to the data center in a few years.

Transferring some of the computing power to devices at the edge of the network can reduce the pressure on the data center, speed up data processing, and reduce latency. However, the management of thousands of edge devices has also become a difficult problem. In order to ensure business continuity, data center personnel must manage the collaboration between devices and keep the hardware running normally.

To support the operation of Internet of things applications, data center managers need to study network bandwidth standards and corresponding software to ensure that their IT environment has sufficient bandwidth and monitoring capabilities to support all connected devices.

IV. Greener and more efficient power supply and cooling system

With the continuous increase of the size of the data center, its power consumption is also rising. Whether for the consideration of cost control or the requirements of national sustainable development, data center managers increasingly need to think about how to reduce power supply costs through new energy technologies.

How to deal with the heat generated by high energy consumption equipment has always been a headache for data center managers. For large-scale data centers or supercomputing centers that need to achieve high-density deployment and green energy saving, liquid cooling technology has a large demand space, and the cooling effect of liquid is thousands of times higher than that of air. There is no doubt that this kind of technology will bring great changes to the server and data center industry.

Fifth, modular data center for faster deployment

The continued and accelerated growth of cloud computing will prompt cloud service providers to expand the size of their data centers to provide computing, storage, and network resources for more users, and this growing demand shortens the data center deployment cycle.

Modular data center is a new form of data center deployment in the era of cloud computing, which adopts the concept of modular design and integrates various subsystems to improve the overall operational efficiency of the data center. achieve rapid deployment, flexible expansion and green energy saving. Can quickly respond to changes in business requirements, with a high degree of flexibility.

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