Cloud Computing: Number of Data Centers To Decline After 2017
November 16, 2014
Grazed from Sci-Tech. Author: Shirley Siluk.
hanging IT needs will drive more enterprises away from in-house data centers to off-site facilities in coming years, according to a new forecast from the analyst firm IDC. The future will also see a rise in super-size "mega datacenters," leading to a decline in the overall number of data centers around the world even as total data center space keeps growing, the report stated.
According to the IDC forecast, released earlier this week, the total number of data centers will peak at 8.6 million in 2017 and then start to decline. However, total data center space will increase globally, rising from 1.58 billion square feet in 2013 to 1.94 billion square feet by 2018…
The shift in the data center environment is being driven by rapidly accelerating data volumes and the need for increasingly flexible computing resources, according to IDC. As organizations look for ways to harness big data and stay competitive in a fast-paced, global economy, more and more are turning to off-site, managed and cloud-based IT services to help keep up…
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