The road to 44 trillion gigabytes: Software-defined datacenters and seeding the cloud
August 11, 2014
Grazed from TechSpot. Author: Kent Smith.
When looking at the near future of data center technology, there are two very important trends to consider. First—the adoption of public and private cloud computing continues to become much more pervasive. Enterprises, software developers, and home users are all making the transition to cloud-based models for services and storage.
Second—devices, data, and network demand are all projected to grow at explosive rates over the next few years. By 2020, the digital universe – the data we create and copy annually – will reach 44 zettabytes, or 44 trillion gigabytes. There will be an estimated 24 billion IP-connected devices online (up from 13 billion in 2013). Network expansion is expected to more than triple in that same timeframe, from 63 million new server ports to 206 million…
And it’s these sorts of looming demand increases in particular that are driving the development of a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) that can deliver cloud-based services with optimized capacity, efficiency, and flexibility…
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