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Making data centres SAFER Hyperscale and colocation data centres are being impacted by the growth of cloud computing, but using the SAFER methodology from AFL Hyperscale can help them to evaluate, design and build their infrastructure to meet customers’ developing needs.
The exponential growth of cloud computing is having a significant impact on the white space infrastructure of hyperscale and colocation data centres. As more companies switch to hyperscale cloud computing for its speed, reduced downtime, easier management and scalability, the demand for data centre space is rocketing. By 2026, global cloud spending will exceed $1 trillion and outperform all other areas of IT spending, according to Gartner. This will put great pressure on cloud hyperscalers to deliver on their promises of cost effectiveness and reliability to the market, while still effectively managing their own requirements, with sustainable practices, in a cost-effective way. The result of this increased demand has driven data centre technologies to offer ever increasing compute, network and storage resources in much smaller physical footprints, leveraging virtualisation and automation technology to deliver highly efficient resource utilisation, higher levels of redundancy and a high degree of workload
mobility. This requires that data centres implement cabling solutions that offer higher bandwidth density in increasingly smaller footprints, more efficient cable runs and ever- increasing degrees of modularity, enabling the underpinning white space infrastructure within these environments to meet the growing demands placed upon it, in terms of flexibility, futureproofing and non-disruptive operation. Essentially, white space infrastructure is becoming increasingly complex to manage through traditional methods, and data centres are looking for new and innovative solutions to manage this complexity and ensure the reliability and scalability of their networks. Delivering SAFER networks One solution, which has been devised by AFL, is the SAFER methodology. This is an approach to designing and building white space infrastructure in data centres and offers a guiding set of principles through which data centre operators can evaluate their current infrastructure state, while guiding planning
By 2026, global cloud spending will exceed $1 trillion and outperform all other areas of IT spending, according to Gartner. “
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