Key Trends and Challenges in the Global IT Market

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The growth of artificial intelligence and analytics, digital twin, blockchain and edge are just a few trends that characterize the rapid developments within the IT technology. All of them will have a major impact on the network and the data center market.

Alongside comprehensive digitization, these technologies are now transforming every industry sector as well as our homes, so actually they criss-cross our whole society. As a result, they are driving the development of the next generation of data center technology. Large data centers will continue to be dominant, but we expecting edge data centers to grow in number to deal with the flood of data created by these technologies.

The future of cloud, edge and 5G technologies

The IoT and IIoT are going to change the IT landscape dramatically. By 2020, it’s expected that up to 43 billion devices will be connected to the IoT (Statista).

That amount of data cannot be handled by hyper-scale/cloud data centers, which is why we’re expecting significant growth in the number of edge data centers to cope with the volume of data and to respond and react with very short latency.

5G will be the second major game-changer. The GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has forecasted that there will be 1.2 billion 5G connections by 2025.

It will have a major impact on private and industrial applications. 5G will be the core technology for autonomous driving cars, VR controlled robots and machines, as well as many other new emerging technologies. It’s this combination of extra bandwidth and performance (5G), plus the growth of edge data centers, which will be the foundation of digitization and new services.

It is important to note, by the way, that edge data centers are always associated with a corresponding cloud; edge and cloud are interrelated technologies.

Regional IT infrastructure assets

The greatest potential for the growth of IT infrastructure assets is likely to be in the North American, European and Asian region – in particular in China. In addition to the traditional hyper-scale data centers, OCP technology will continue to grow in importance.

In Europe, with the advancement of IIoT technology as part of Industry 4.0, the edge data center segment should see above-average growth.

Next Steps for Rittal

Rittal has already established itself in the hyper-scale/colocation market and has many well-known IT companies within its customer base. The Lefdal Mine Datacentre has shown how we can apply our experience to large-scale data centers.

Going forward, the focus will increasingly be on edge data centers in order to position Rittal as a driving force within this segment and it is one where we will continue to contribute our know-how and expertise in order to provide cross-industry solutions.

Further information at www.rittal.co.uk and www.friedhelm-loh-group.com or on twitter @rittal_ltd.

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