Facebook's Prineville, Oregon data center. Image: IntelFreePress/Flickr
You can track the history of the business through real estate.
For the first several centuries of civilization, most economies on agriculture were centered. In the 18th century the crop yields were all important and was one of the most important institutions of the village marketplace. In the 19th century was the factory become the symbol and driving force of industrialism. Innovations such as the Bessemer process were developed, to factories run more efficiently. The trend hit culminating in Henry Ford's Assembly lines in the 1920s.
And exactly at this time, we, the emergence of the service sector such as finance, began to see legal and insurance. In the 1970s, city office building was fed by s - Bahn lines and motorways the center of the universe business.
Now, in the 21st century, we are in the early stages of the data-center era. Forget downtown corporate towers. Major financial institutions now compete for Office space in Fort Lee, New Jersey, because there connections bandwidth milliseconds transactions will shave. Brick and mortar record stores and movie theaters will be replaced by online shipping services such as Netflix and iTunes.
Consumer and business records document increasingly leave camp for a new home in the cloud. The new world order in the economy are no longer dependent on physical properties - instead they exist, where important data managed and is.
In the Datacenter, era hangs, win or lose more and more performance and operational efficiency. What are the factors in the success?
1 energy consumption. Energy is the second highest variable costs, just after employees, for many large data centers. It can consume 30% of the operational budget. Data centers are also notoriously inefficient. Five years ago, it was fairly common data centers that twice as much money for energy for their air conditioners as for the operation of its server. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon and others have succeeded, in the significant reduction of energy consumption through the strategic placement of equipment airflow (hot aisles), DC power distribution and even locate their operations in abandoned mine shafts. Still, there is an enormous amount of work left in energy consumption are made.
2 latency. Retrieving data from storage system A to Server B efficiency and without delay (or latency) is probably the biggest challenge in computing today. Almost every company-technology companies working on innovative ways to time, shorten, transfer the huge amounts of data produced, or so that it processed and analyzed can be put together by Smartphones, PCs, industrial devices, and other Internet-enabled things. Right now, buy companies trying to conquer latency of brute-force, more computers and other devices as necessary, so that the work can be run faster or in parallel i.e.. It is not sustainable. The old way of building data centers is households exceeded. Datacenter-overkill is also a primary cause of energy blow up.
We will probably see a combination of solutions to address time interval. Fiber optics data faster than the shuttle, will be wires connecting Server databases. New memory also play a key role, because communication standards and technologies get very much time on the market. Memory masks effectively delay these links are inherent.
3 virtualization. Server spend the most time in idle problem areas in the data center world. , On a good day to work reach only about 15% of the processing cycles. The process of virtualization reduces idle time through the combination of different applications on the same piece of hardware. The technology was first applied to the server, but it is migrating to storage systems and networking devices.
4 real estate strategies. Location, location, location. With the exception of Japan and South Korea, the broadband infrastructure of most Nations lags demand. There are simply more data than the bandwidth and the problem is further exacerbated. How do we solve it? By strategically positioning of data center real estate. At one end of the spectrum, we see the development of the massive mega - data centers that consume hundreds of thousands of square meters. Much more not to large facilities that will sit in industrial parks are this supplement.
And to complement the moderate equipment neighborhood of small, medium-sized data centers. Think of something about the size of a dumpster in stock with processors, disk drives, cables and other pieces of IT equipment. The distribution infrastructure in the border area, data can be delivered faster. This will free valuable bandwidth.
If it sounds far-fetched, this is the same kind of strategy, which is designed to ensure that the energy in any place could get the utility industry.
5 education and human resources development. One of the big issues that arise in a few years is whether companies will prefer, continue to depend on external cloud providers or to bring their data center operations in house. At a certain point, you can outsource a strategic resource. The shift is the demand for data center employees and continue the urban commuter disturbing pattern and spatial planning.
How long does the Datacenter era? It is hard to say. When more computing power to the edge can be distributed this beige buildings lose their value, but right now the data growth by far exceeds our ability to process them individually.
The era State generated may not iconic structures such as the Chrysler building or the Empire, but it will probably take quite a while.
Albert "Rocky" Pimentel is President of global markets and customers at Seagate.
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